{"id":4611,"date":"2019-11-21T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:00:48","slug":"chewed-through-wiring-harness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/chewed-through-wiring-harness\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewed-Through Wiring Harness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check engine lights on new cars are not something you want to deal with, because usually it&#8217;s going to end up a warranty job and probably not pay as well as it would on an older car. Sometimes you get lucky though and the problem isn&#8217;t cause by any manufacturing or design defect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4616\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_21_01.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_21_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A 2019 Civic with only about 13,000 miles came into the shop with the check engine light and a constant misfire, and I ended up being given it to diagnose. I hooked up the computer expecting to find a single misfire code, but instead there were nine different codes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4617\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_21_02.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_21_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first thought when I saw so many different codes was wiring harness damage. I opened the hood and immediately knew I would be right, as the first thing I saw was a pile of bread. An animal had put it there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4618\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_21_03.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_21_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also quickly found the most obvious damage to the harness. Whatever the animal was had chewed through the wires for the cylinder 4 ignition coil as well as both camshaft sensors. There must have been damage I couldn&#8217;t see causing the rest of the codes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4619\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_21_04.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_21_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because it was caused by forces outside of Honda&#8217;s control, ie. an animal, this was not covered under warranty. I spent several hours replacing the engine harness, and when I was done, everything worked perfectly. 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Sometimes you get lucky though and the problem isn&#8217;t cause by any manufacturing or design defect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,28,33,35],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-diagnosis","tag-electrical","tag-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}