I was clearing the maintainance required light on a honda element. I started the car, and there was no air blowing. I checked the heater motor fuse under the hood, and it seemed fine. The air doesnt blow on any setting, Could I have caused damage when I reset the maint reqd light? I ordered a blower motor in case thats the problem, what do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
frank





Modified by budomove at 7:25 PM 1/14/2008

 

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Heater Blower Motor Gets
Hot or Blows a Fuse

NOTE: This article applies to ’90–04 Accords,
’92–04 Civics, ’97–04 CR-Vs, ’03 Elements,
’00–04 Insights, ’95–04 Odysseys,
’96–02 Passports, ’03–04 Pilots, ’97–01 Preludes,
and ’00–04 S2000s.

A blocked cooling hose for the heater blower
motor can cause the motor to overheat, draw
more current, blow a fuse, or even melt its plastic
impeller. Before you order a replacement blower
motor, make sure the cooling hose isn’t blocked.
On some models, you’ll find the cooling hose
molded into the blower motor housing; on other
models, it’s a separate piece. Check the S/M for
the vehicle you’re working on to determine the
actual location of the cooling hose.

 

I too own an Element, and there's nothing that could have been damaged by simply resetting the maintanance light.

Did you happen to replace the A/C filters prior to resetting that light?

Have the a/c filters been replaced recently or at all?

I've reset my light numerous times thrugh our 40K miles on the car, with no adverse effects on anything.

 

I did replace the cabin pollen filters once. Now has 110k, and I think I changed them once, or maybe twice. I will check, but I doubt they could be so clogged that they burned out the motor. Thanks for the insight!

Frank

 

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Frank</TD></TR></TABLE>

Well I didn't mean that if you'd never changed them it clog so badly that the motor would burn out.

What I was wondering is that if part of you clearing that light was actually doing a service that entailed changing the cabin filter that perhaps en error occured in the process of changing the filter, thus causing directly or indirectly the blower motor to cease functioning.

I understand that nornally there isn't really a correlation with the blower itself and the filter install-wise, but if it got stuck in their and it hung up in there, etc. etc.

 

I will check, but the filters are downstream of the blower, and I dont see that as much of a potentiality, but will check nontheless.

Anyone else have any idea?

 

Really I think you've got yourself a shitty coincidence.

I can look up the blower motor flowchart when I get back from lunch if you'd like.

 

That'd be great, but no worries if you don't feel like it.

 

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