Honda Car Forum

So the other day all of a sudden my check engine light came on. Nothing seems different or wrong with my car, but it's stayed on for over a week now, and I've never seen it on before. I took the car into a shop to have them check the problem, but they couldn't locate the plug on my model. The guy spent a good while looking before getting another guy, who seemed to know what he was doing well enough, and he hunted up and down for it, even looked through the car manual and everything. He said he's never seen a car that didn't have the plug in the places they checked. Is there something special about my car that it's hidden elsewhere? It's really weird...it should be there under the dash...it just isn't...Help?I believe it refers to itself as a "Honda Accord Special"...it's slightly possible it's a Canadian model...

ive never seen an accord that didnt have the OBDII plug under the steering wheel

Make sure it is not a model that was made in a different country. An example would be that some Canadian made models of cars have subtle differences than the similar American models.

It should be on the steering column toward the driver side on the plastic

The DLC is located behind the ash/coin tray on modern Acura I believe.

try removing the ash tray . after removing ash tray there is a cover it is a bit hard to see but there is a groove at the top pull it out and you will see the obd connector

i did one of thease and it it behind the ash tray why do they insist on making things so difficult for us mechanics that is why we charge so much ie expencive special tools,books ,manules... etc

MAKE SURE your gas cap is on tight - click 3 times -- and doesn't have a crack in it. Hondas give error codes when gas caps aren't tight.

While i am not certain about your model some of the earlier accords you had to look at the ecm itself there was a small "window" were you check the codes, pretty sure yours wont be like this though!!Good Luck

if it seems to run fine, try unplugging your battery. and then plug it back in. what this does is resets your ecu to a factory setting. sometimes the computer may get a bad reading, it could be something stupid, like humidity, moisture somewhere, but try that, if that doesn't work, go to a Honda dealership.