PSYCHIC-TOMATO
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Hey guys.
No noob here. I've owned about 20 Hondas in my life. However, this is my first Accord and my first Honda that broke out of the 88-95 CRXs / Del Sols / Civics that I usually rock. I'm putting together a "hello and greetings" post but I've been lazy...and busy...and lazy busy. I'll get one up tonight.
So here it is - Just got this accord. 2000 EX F23A1 - Manual.
Everything was tip top. A couple times after the first week, the car wouldn't
start if you shut it off and went to start it up again really quickly. You'd have to wait for a minute. Then it would be cool. I've had that happen a million times. No biggie, right?
Drove it last night...cruised around with no issues. Parked it. Went to start it up this morning and there was nothing. It cranks, the starter works. It acts as if it has a bad dizzy rotor or a bad ignitor or something packed in the dizzy.
BUT HERE'S THE HARDCORE STUFF - Now that this is doing this without magically fixing itself, I realized the engine computer (ECU) light is not lighting up at all. Nothing. No check, no nothing. I can't hear the fuel pump or anything else. Everything else on the dash lights up. But no ECU check light, no fuel pump and oddly, no radio (however, it may have been like that before without the car started)..It's still very new to me.
My first instinct was the Main Relay...because a bad rotor or ignitor / coil wouldn't cause the ECU light to vanish. It's like the car has no communication with the ECU. Those issues also wouldn't kill the fuel pump.
I replaced the Main Relay today....reset all the fuses just to be sure...and NOTHING.
Any help? Am I forgetting something? I've never fried a Honda ECU. Could the ECU be fried or am I overlooking something?
I was just pulling engine codes the other day and everything was cool.
UGH!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jay
No noob here. I've owned about 20 Hondas in my life. However, this is my first Accord and my first Honda that broke out of the 88-95 CRXs / Del Sols / Civics that I usually rock. I'm putting together a "hello and greetings" post but I've been lazy...and busy...and lazy busy. I'll get one up tonight.
So here it is - Just got this accord. 2000 EX F23A1 - Manual.
Everything was tip top. A couple times after the first week, the car wouldn't
start if you shut it off and went to start it up again really quickly. You'd have to wait for a minute. Then it would be cool. I've had that happen a million times. No biggie, right?
Drove it last night...cruised around with no issues. Parked it. Went to start it up this morning and there was nothing. It cranks, the starter works. It acts as if it has a bad dizzy rotor or a bad ignitor or something packed in the dizzy.
BUT HERE'S THE HARDCORE STUFF - Now that this is doing this without magically fixing itself, I realized the engine computer (ECU) light is not lighting up at all. Nothing. No check, no nothing. I can't hear the fuel pump or anything else. Everything else on the dash lights up. But no ECU check light, no fuel pump and oddly, no radio (however, it may have been like that before without the car started)..It's still very new to me.
My first instinct was the Main Relay...because a bad rotor or ignitor / coil wouldn't cause the ECU light to vanish. It's like the car has no communication with the ECU. Those issues also wouldn't kill the fuel pump.
I replaced the Main Relay today....reset all the fuses just to be sure...and NOTHING.
Any help? Am I forgetting something? I've never fried a Honda ECU. Could the ECU be fried or am I overlooking something?
I was just pulling engine codes the other day and everything was cool.
UGH!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jay