O/T - Honda CRV Electrics Dead! Help Needed Please

BoB

Look for the fusible links (if you are lucky the handbook will give you a clue, but normally not far from the battery) - they look like wires. In the rain if something got shorted and the fuses did not pop quickly enough one or more fusible links could go. Test them with a multimeter looking for a voltage drop across them or if no voltage there check for resistance - none if ok and infinity if they are blown.

You should be able to get them from a dealer and put them in but if the fault has not cleared they will blow again.

After that - call the Auto Assn if you are a member - their patrols normally know the weak spots and can go straight to them, or else tow you home or to a workshop of your choice.

Good luck
Max

A girl at work bought one. Her boyfriend replaced the battery. But unbeknowest to anyone, after a replacement of a CRV battery the "system" needs to be "reset" or it all dies. Apparently this is only one of two vehicles on the market that a replacement battery affects.

So just a stab in the dark but if you cut the power or replaced the battery, get it to a Honda dealer. But i spose that's the best advice anyhow.

its not the battery that just died is it?

You need to put a multimeter or test lamp DIRECTLY on the battery posts - NOT on the cable clamps, but the battery posts in the centre.

Then put the test leads on the clamps to see if the voltage is any lower there - you could have black corrosion on the battery posts that is almost invisible.

Same thing happened to a late model pathfinder, took all the relays out one by one replacing as i went and fixed the problem. Col