Oh Honda, you're so silly.


Glad it's fixed.

 

That's another tool going into my Honda tool box! Thanks Nando (at your expense)... Your experience is not wasted!

 

Well that's interesting, in a Honda sort of way.... have to wonder what blew only that fuse. Guess it simply boils down to checking ALL the fuses.

To parallel it, when I was upgrading my horn I overloaded the circuit and blew a fuse. Not only did it take out the horn, but also cruise control, go figure.

 

They spread out what's on which fuse for a couple of reasons:
1. You don't want, for example, both headlights on the same fuse. If one burns out, you've still got some lighting.

2. They probably calculate what they can combine for a particular current rating.

3. In theory it should make it easier to diagnose what's wrong... as in: radio and trunk light stopped working? They're on the same fuse, let's try that first.

 

I was getting ready to pull out my 2007 Fit Electrical Trouble Shooting manual to see what I could find.. Japanese cars and motorcycles have screwy wiring but Chinese made scooters are impossible for me to make any sense of and there are no manuals for them.

 

I guess it's a way to clue someone in that they have an electrical issue. How often does anyone check their reverse lights? If other more obvious circuits were goofing up, a cusotmer is more likely to take it in to the shop... right?

I know some older American car blinkers would flash the dash blinker arrows very fast if a blinker bulb was out. It lets the driver know that something is up.

 

^^ That is an unintentional but pleasant engineering bonus.

The blinker relay requires resistance to turn on and off which is supplied by the light bulb filament. Burn out a bulb and you loose some resistance (open circuit on that line) which in turn causes the relay to turn on and off faster.

This is also the reason you need to add resistors to LEDs if they are to be used with conventional relays...LED's have very little resistance..

 

Thanks guys for informing us the interior lights are on the same circuit as the backup lights. When changing your reading lamp bulbs to LED, wrap the back side of the metal LED bulb housing with a small bit of electrical tape. Not much room to work in there and easy to accidentally touch the bulb housing to the wrong place and blow the backup light 10A fuse. To prevent this make sure the light is off before installing a bulb.

 

Why does this fuse blow when replacing the battery? Has anyone found out. This happened to my daughter. She asked AAA and Autozone to replace the battery and they refused citing problems with fuses. She and her fiancé replaced the battery, blew the fuse, replaced the fuse and all is well. Thank you to contributors to this thread.

 

Consider to:

Remove the back up light fuse before battery change, and replace again afterwards.

I wonder, will some other fuse blow instead?

& Does this apply to all vintage of Fit?

Was the key in with the transmission in reverse at time of the battery change? Or the radio on, or the door open with the dome light on when the battery was reconnected?

As is said in the Noth Country of New Hampshire....

Hard tellin',

not knowin'.

 

I suppose the door was open but I wasn't there. Intriguing that AAA and Autozone won't touch a Fit for a battery replacement, isn't it?