{"id":5400,"date":"2021-04-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2021-04-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:00:00","slug":"scraped-bumper-broken-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/scraped-bumper-broken-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraped Bumper, Broken Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Honda Accord came into the shop with only a few thousand miles on it and a check engine light. It had a code for no signal from the radiator coolant temperature sensor, so I got started on electrical diagnostics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_12_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_12_01.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5405\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the Honda diagnostic tree, I checked to see whether the sensor was getting a signal and had a good ground, and after a little while determined that one of the wires must be broken. Trying to find a broken wire in the mass of wiring harnesses in modern cars sounds like a nightmare, but I got very lucky and found it quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_12_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021_04_12_02.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5407\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found that the owner had hit something in the road with the front of the car, and besides damaging the bumper and undershields just a little bit, it actually damaged the front wiring harness as well, breaking the wire for the radiator coolant temperature sensor. On a nearly-new car, I wouldn&#8217;t want to try to repair a broken sensor wire like this unless I absolutely had to, so a new harness was the repair needed. Fortunately for the customer, this didn&#8217;t need the entire engine bay harness, just a small front end harness that wasn&#8217;t too expensive. 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It had a code for no signal from the radiator coolant temperature sensor, so I got started on electrical diagnostics.<\/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],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-diagnosis","tag-electrical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}