Honda Car Forum

Hi Gurus,

My daughter's (my) Integra has had a problem for the last couple of
months. It has been intermittent about cranking (not turning over) -
no 12v to the soleniod switch but 12v good out of the ignition switch.

It appears that there's a couple of relays in series (and a fuse) that
must be energized before 12V is good to the soleniod. There's also the
clutch switch (which is good). One relay is power good and the other
is alarm inhibit.

Anyone have any idea if there's anything else...or has had any
experience with these?

mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com (unix-freak) wrote in message news:<6d7ec317.0309241059.172e9f56@posting.google. com>...
> Hi Gurus,
>
> My daughter's (my) Integra has had a problem for the last couple of
> months. It has been intermittent about cranking (not turning over) -
> no 12v to the soleniod switch but 12v good out of the ignition switch.
>
> It appears that there's a couple of relays in series (and a fuse) that
> must be energized before 12V is good to the soleniod. There's also the
> clutch switch (which is good). One relay is power good and the other
> is alarm inhibit.
>
> Anyone have any idea if there's anything else...or has had any
> experience with these?

For educational purposes....I thought I'd post the fix.
I could jumper battery voltage to the soleniod and crank the car (with
key in run position). Also the ignition switch was putting out
12v...so obviously a problem in between. After some tracing I found
that someone had taken the ignition switch output and butt
connectorized it to a wire that ran off to GOD knows where. Then with
that was another wire coming back that was butt connectorized to the
wire that normally feeds the ignition relay. I normalled everything
back top factory and all is well.

Don't you just love it when people hockey stuff up and then you have
to come back and mop things up?

On 24 Sep 2003 18:16:21 -0700, mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com (unix-freak)
wrote:

>someone had taken the ignition switch output and butt
>connectorized it to a wire that ran off to GOD knows where. Then with
>that was another wire coming back that was butt connectorized to the
>wire that normally feeds the ignition relay.

Probably a hidden switch. A poor-man's immobilizer.