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Old Sep 9, 2018
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Looking for a lose connection from the fuse box... car puking and then clicking when

I've taken the car to Honda and they couldn't find the problem. They suspected that the 12 v battery wiring might need replacing, and so did I so I bought the whole positive/negative assembly used off eBay and replaced it. Started fine for about a day.

When I go to start it, it will do one of three things: start, not start and click, or not start and puke a few times like it's going to turn and then click.

if I go under the hood and lightly hit the top plastic cap on the fuse box, then the car will start right up, so I'm assuming there is a bad connection somewhere under the fuse box.

I lifted the fuse box and the two wires going into the screw connections look fine, no fraying or loseness.

anyone had this issue?
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Re: Looking for a lose connection from the fuse box... car puking and then clicking w

Think there is like 5-6 black relays in the box. Hitting the box and that makes it work sure sounds like a failing relay.

Maybe mark them 1-2 ect then swap them all in a left to right manner and see if your old problem goes away and a new problem shows up.
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Re: Looking for a lose connection from the fuse box... car puking and then clicking w

My buddy did try this and it was the same thing, but I'll give it another go!
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Re: Looking for a lose connection from the fuse box... car puking and then clicking w

Underneath that box is 2-3 master connections. Pretty annoying to remove the box but possible one of those had a locking tab snap and is loose.
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Re: Looking for a lose connection from the fuse box... car puking and then clicking w

Could you be more specific?

I did get the box off, breaking 3 of those clips in the process :/
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