Ok then, well, let's start by the history of my '90 accord LX. She was bought in February 2004, and was running fine. After learning to drive standard, i put the tranny in a bit of hell, but it was still running. Ok, some big dents happened, which were not my fault (hit and run in parking lots). Awesome. I get a sound system pushing 1200watts, but I have a cap so the battery doesn't take huge voltage drops. Beginning of August I get my whole body done, wow she looks nice! By a different sub... Power Acoustik FBX-12. Transmission blows a week later, I get one from the scrapyard, install it myself and works A-OK. Ok, hell has begun. I avoid an accident on the highway, but it involved my spinning to the side lane, but everything is fine... minus the extreme amounts of cursing. I start driving off, playing some music, but it sounds a big different... I pull over, my sub is pounding against the box ( box was behind the sub, but got infront of it ). So I move it, and I notice some scratches on the sub. All of a sudden, BOOM. My fuse blows ( inline fuse , battery to power wire to fuse to wire to amp ). Ok, now I seem to have a problem, as all that happened, my tail lights just suddenly turn off. Ok, I check the bulbs, they're perfect. Hmmmm. After about a day of scratching my head, i decide to try and test my brake lights... all work! Yay! Day 2. My friend tells me one of my brake lights are out.... odd, I checked it yesterday. The left most brake light wont go. Day 3, I notice the interior brake light (in the middle) isn't working, now I really start worrying. Day 4, passenger side power window doesn't work from either the driver or passenger control. There goes smoking in the passenger side now! Day 5, right headlight goes out, but all bulbs look fine. I checked the grounds, they all look perfect, except for the main negative wire going to the battery, there's rubber off about 3 inches of it, and 3 out of like 400 wires are cut. I'm almost positive it isn't that though because that has been like that since I got the car.

Electronic Confusion? Yes...

Any suggestions? I tried to make this as interesting as possible so no one got bored reading it .

 

remove the stereo and fix th stock wiring.
something in your sound system shorted and fucked up stock ****.

 

is your amp located in the trunk? Where is it grounded?

any problem with the parking lights or interior lights at all?

 

remove your sterio equip and take it to a shop to get it re-installed ...

 

hey try swapping another ecu into ur car...i bet its fried......i bet u have a short somewhere that probably fried it...barrow a friends or something...

 

Alright, after 20+ hours of tracing back the wiring and looking at EVERYTHING, there is no ground that is not connected to a metallic part on my car... and yes i know the paint has to be scrapped off, i redid that to every ground in my car, i checked all the fuses/relays with a voltmeter, and it still doesn't work. As for the stereo, I do professional installations, and that was one of the first places i checked/redid. So that's all fine. ECU is A-OK... What I think the problem might be is the lighting relay, or whatever it's called ... has RZ-0089 written on it ... because that's the only possible solution... with all the grounds on PERFECTLY, and all wires are PERFECT (I basically rewired my whole car) I was able to fix all the brakes, front right head light, but my window on the passenger side still doesn't work, and the tail lights are still off... sorry it took so long for me to reply, but I was quite busy rewiring my car.

I'll try and change the module with some other one from the scrapyard. If that doesn't work I think I'll throw that car in the garbage and buy another one, 94-96. Because if I bring it to Honda, they will probable take more than 15 hours to find the problem, and 2+ to fix it. I am an apprentice in auto mechanics, have had my teacher look at it, and many of his friends... Only thing they came up with was a bunch of cursing. I'll let you all know how it goes when i test that lighting module.

Later

Tom

EDIT: ALL interior lights work, even the visor light on the passenger side, which is on the same junction/circuit as my tail lights...


Modified by PsychoAccord at 3:16 AM 1/6/2005