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My 99 Accord LX 4Dr V4 sedan has 57300 miles on it, I did not change
the oil and oil filter for about 8000 miles, however everything was
still ok till the day i left my car overnight with the lights on.
The next day it wouldnt start, realizing that the battery has drained,
i jump started the car, ran it for a minute or two and left.
The next day while driving down to work , the check engine light had
turned on, i changed the oil, filter, anti-freeze and the coolant at
jiffy lube, but it still remained on.
I read somewhere that i might take anywhere from 3 to 5 days and 5 -
100 miles for it to reset if oil and filter were the causeof the
problem.

The question is, does jumpstarting the car/drained battery trip the
sensor?
Just want to know if it is time to take it to a dealer/mechanice.

Before you get overly concerned, bring the car to autozone (I take it
you are in the US) and ask them to scan your codes -- they'll do this
for free. They can also reset the codes (so the check engine light goes
off), but be sure to record all of them in case the trouble is real.

I can't imagine that it was related to your not changing the oil.
Perhaps the computer glitched when you ran the battery down.

Remco

Thanks for your reply, before checking for replies to my post i went
down to a local mechanic and had him check the codes.
The code came out was P1607, "Open loop is not ready to be closed"...
the mechanic told me that my computer has failed and it needs to be
replaced.
The other guy at the mechanic's shop resetted the computer and asked me
to drive for 50-60 miles to see if the lamp turns on... i have driven
about 75 miles so far and the lamp has still not turned on.

this may have been a glitch like u mentioned...but it did cost me $75
USD, unfortunately i did not know that AutoZone does the scanning for
free and resetting for free.

The other reason i got concerned is because, when i opened the hood, i
saw smoke coming out from under the engine,

A closer look by the mechanic revealed that the new oil filter that
Jiffy Lube guys put in this morning was either overtightened or
undertigthened resulting is some leak of oil that dripped down on the
hot exhaust and burned.

siddharthsawe@gmail.com wrote in
news:1107821968.758948.109450@l41g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com:

> Thanks for your reply, before checking for replies to my post i went
> down to a local mechanic and had him check the codes.
> The code came out was P1607, "Open loop is not ready to be closed"...


P1xxx is a manufacturer-specific "enhanced" OBD-II code.

I wonder if this means one of the readiness flags was not set?


> the mechanic told me that my computer has failed and it needs to be
> replaced.


With a Honda computer, that would be most definitely the last, bottom-of-
the-barrel diagnosis to be given only after literally all else has failed.
Honda computers are very reliable.


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The following site seems to describe it as something else:
http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=682412

The "open loop that doesn't close" just sounds made up. An open loop
never closes - that is why it is open loop.

I'd drive the car and see if the error shows back up. I bet it just
glitched when your battery died.