nissanjon

I have a 2000 Si with 170,000 miles.

My CEL came on this morning. I tried searching but had no luck.

What I need to know is how to determine the error code.

I think I heard the general idea is to pull the little ecu harness and jump it with a paper clip, then turn the key and count the CEL flashes or something like that...i just do not know the EXACT step-by-step procedure.

Any help is appreciated. Then I will come back and post what the code is and go from there.

Thanks!

Spade

http://www.hondata.com/techecucodes.html

smithenhiven

Go to pepboys, or a place like that. They'll hook it up to an OBDII code reader and tell you exactly what the problem is.

funky_cornbread

http://hybrid2.honda-perf.org/tech/codes.html

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=682412

http://www.teirney.net/civic/ECUErrorCodes.htm

Irishweird00

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ding ding ding (autozone... ect)

170K on a 2000 si? DAMN

nissanjon

Ok so I got home and jumped the thingy - code 1, o2 sensor.

I had issues with this a few weeks back when I posted about failing smog.

I tried the bosch universal o2 and I could not for the life of me get that thing to work without getting a CEL. So I crimped back the OEM sensor and OEM harness, taped it up, put on a new cap and rotor and passed smog.

It's been fine for a few weeks but this morning it just took a dump on me. The strange thing is, VTEC still engages. I know because a) 170,000 miles, I know my car by now and b) I tapped an LED to the vtec wire so it turns on when engaged (yeah it's might be rice, but that's the only grain in my car).

Should VTEC not engage when the CEL is on? I thought it wasn't supposed to.

Anyway...I'm gonna check my crimps and if that don't help I'll order a new one from honda...ouch!

Clutchmasta55

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mine has 300k

Irishweird00

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Holy ****...

nissanjon

so my car was broken into last night.

they wanted the car. they pryed down the window and hotwired it. thank God the steering column was locked. they took a hammer to the interior. they didn't touch anything else. the plastic covers to the ecu and the underside of the steering wheel are gone. there is a lot of broken plastic connectors and other things. a neighbor scared them away at 4am. i found the car still idling at 9am, on an empty tank no less. they left a screwdriver which the cops took as evidence.

aint that a bitch. i ******* dare them to come back.

Luserkid

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I call BS until i see pics. is that 300,000 miles or 300,000km? Thats like going from the west coast to the east coast 100 times in 4 years.

Tim.

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dude never left the driver seat

JDM PRO

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92bubblesi

300000 % 4 % 365 = 205 miles per day

Thats a lot of miles to be driving everyday. Say you do drive that many miles everyday. Don't you have to go to work?, Do you do anything but drive?

nissanjon

damn - 4 replies since my last post and no one has noticed that i said my car was broken into last night.

funky_cornbread

that's because were used to it. join the club. fix it and keep going or sell it and move on.