# MLI/Engine Codes 96' Honda Accord LX **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** engines, accord, honda\ **Created:** [December 4, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838 "2011-12-04T12:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/21 "2011-12-15T13:18:57Z")
Actually, the site re-sized site too a microscopic resolution. Here’s a link to the original in a 500 resolution, it go’s higher. ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/22 "2011-12-15T13:21:08Z")
[![](https://s.yimg.com/pw/images/en-us/photo_unavailable.png) ](https://s.yimg.com/pw/images/en-us/photo_unavailable.png) ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/23 "2011-12-16T04:00:07Z")
You still need to take a new picture, and move out a bit so I can see where this plug is located. The I can check the one on my Honda, but I suspect that there is nothing wrong with this plug. ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/24 "2011-12-22T07:38:38Z")
[![](https://s.yimg.com/pw/images/en-us/photo_unavailable.png) ](https://s.yimg.com/pw/images/en-us/photo_unavailable.png) There ya go. If experience is any indication of the future, than I don’t think anyone can help solve a car problem over the internet. Last time I had a high beams problem I ended up solving it myself. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/25 "2011-12-22T22:26:22Z")
Its raining out here right now. When it stops, i will go out and pull that plug on our Honda and see what it is supposed to look like inside. ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/26 "2011-12-22T22:49:13Z")
Tidbit: When I clear the code it usually takes a day or two for it to come back. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/27 "2011-12-23T04:18:27Z")
Well, that is a main wiring harness connector. I did not trace it out, but I opened mine and the white posts are all white, I don’t know what those black marks are on yours, the picture is out of focus. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/28 "2011-12-23T04:18:41Z")
However, those white flat posts are just guides to insure alignment so that the pins do not get mashed when the connector is mated. What led you to open this connection up anyway? ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/29 "2011-12-23T11:32:06Z")
Well it’s all tied to the electrical. Black marks indicate over-heating, which confirms the open circuit. A guy at o’reilly says the dealer would be able to pinpoint the broken circuit with a device, but I can’t stand to pay them $300 for that, and I especially can’t stand not being able to figure it out myself. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/30 "2011-12-24T00:45:06Z")
Black marks are not an indication of an open circuit. An open circuit does not generate any heat. Heat is generated by a shorted circuit and that would blow a fuse. Also the black marks have very crisp edges on them which also does not indicate excessive heat. It could simply be that the plug you have is from a different manufacturer than the one I have. You are looking in the wrong place. ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/31 "2011-12-24T04:28:47Z")
Back in May, I was blew the windshield wiper fuse twice in one week. Is their any connection to this, I wonder? oddly enough, it hasn’t blown since and we never figured out why. ---
**Author:** ![HondaHonda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@HondaHonda](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HondaHonda)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838/32 "2012-01-28T04:05:35Z")
hey keith, good news I followed the service manual and replaced the transmission fluid. We used a marine sump pump to pump out all the tranmission fluid we could, about a quart and half a time. Added a quart, flushed it about 3 times and we cycled it through all the gears. Now my tranny fluids red and after erasing the code, it hasn’t come back. considering it used to come back the next day and it’s been a month I think it’s fixed. Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate you helping me find the service manual. Now I have a couple other problems, an oil leak in my pan and distributor, but that’s for another thread… [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mli-engine-codes-96-honda-accord-lx/69838.md?page=1)