Need help! 16 civic ex-t stalled while driving and won’t start

[Chengerbanger]

I was driving in a roundabout and exiting when my car just lost all power and then eventually stalled out. Pulled over and tried to restart the car and it wouldn’t start. Tried jumping the car but it wouldn’t go. Checked fuses under hood. Not sure what the issue could be. No CEL came on when it stalled either and no codes stored when I checked it.

Only thing I recently noticed was that there was this weird noise during cold starts when I would drive until it warmed up. Kind of like a rattling noise somewhat high pitched out of the right side underneath the hood.

i uploaded a quick video of what it sounds like trying to start it

 

[ScottUKDM]

Is that the sound now or before? It sounds like you are missing compression on one cylinder.

Usually, the starting noise should be even , you have a definite repeating abnormal compression stroke on one of the cylinders.

Perform a compression test and report back - its almost certainly bad news.

Have you performed any checks at all? This is your first post, so we are unable to judge your mechanical/problem solving ability.

 

[Chengerbanger]

Is that the sound now or before? It sounds like you are missing compression on one cylinder.

Usually, the starting noise should be even , you have a definite repeating abnormal compression stroke on one of the cylinders.

Perform a compression test and report back - its almost certainly bad news.

Have you performed any checks at all? This is your first post, so we are unable to judge your mechanical/problem solving ability.

Yeah. Thanks for the response. I’m going to have a shop diagnose it but it’s most definitely low compression like you said. Now I wait to figure out what the true problem is after they take it apart to see if it’s fixable or I have to replace the whole engine.

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