ok so i have an 00 Civic SI and just recently my car had electrical failure. At first I thought it was the alternator. After that was replaced I still had the same problem. Which is after my car has been running for 5 or so minutes, it just dies slowly. So I also used a multimeter to read the battery and when the car was running it showed that it was losing voltage gradually. Disconnected the battery and tested it and it read 12.3ish. Well I proceeded to go and buy an optima battery. Hooked it up and the car started up fine and the battery was holding its voltage. My CEL was still on. I found the code and I called Honda about it and they told me I had to buy an entire fusebox to fix the ELD problem. Which they quoted it for $130+ tax plus an additional 3-5 business days for it to come in. So i found a fuse box from an ek hatch and hooked it up. Started the car and I still had the same code. Also by this time i returned the optima battery and was using my original battery again. After about 2 minutes the car started dying out again. Now from what I hear ELD problems are uncommon but not unheard of. So I asked myself, "wtf, two fuseboxes with f'd up ELD's???" I noticed that a wire plugs directly into the ELD. Now I am thinking that something is up with the actual wire. Which I believe is part of the wiring harness. The plug is pretty small and is brown. Also the ELD in the fusebox is brown and looks like a memory card for a digital camera. What do you guys think??? Please help with some insight..


Modified by SLOWFBP_EM1 at 8:11 PM 12/15/2005

 

Did you ever figure this out?