Q: Car overheated - 2004 Honda Civic

asked by on September 03, 2016

Honda 1.6 Car overheated then cut out and wouldn't start we took it to Honda and they couldn't sort it ther was no spark at plugs so changed coil packs and plugs and still no spark

My car has 84 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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