I have a 93 Accord. So I was installing new speakers in the back and was having trouble getting a clear sound from one of them, most likely due to a wire that didn't have a crimp thingy to secure it to the speaker.
So I was jiggling it with the car turned on when all of a sudden I hear a rough idle sound. I quickly turned the car off. After a few minutes I turned it back on but it won't stay on. Instead it idles roughly then stalls.

This might be completely unrelated to my speaker tinkering, but I find it hard to believe that the problem started up at the very moment I was jiggling a wire in the back. I tried looking at all the fuses under the hood, and they all seem fine.

Any ideas? I would greatly appreciate any help on this. Electrical problems are a bitch, and I don't know anything about them.

 

Most likely coincidental. Address the miss by first investigating the usual suspects; spark plugs, spark plug wires, distributor cap, rotor.

good luck

 

Is there a good sized amplifier involved, here? If so you may have fooled around and killed your alternator or ecu or whatever else ... maybe you accidentally grounded something, shorted something, whatever else when you were playing with the speaker?? Have a fuse by the battery?

 

The speakers are just standard 6 1/2 inch. Though I do think that from jiggling the wire I might have shorted something. My theory is that I somehow reset the ECU and now it can't idle properly since the idle was messed up in the first place. Kinda like having your own unique filing system that no one else can understand and then you yourself forget. Now you're screwed. So the ECU would have to "relearn" how to control the idle but it's so far out of whack that it can't even keep the car running long enough to adapt.

There's no doubt that the idle is the problem and always has been. I'm just wondering what I did to exacerbate the problem.