Our '03 Honda CR-V, aka TheFridge, has produced the Check Engine
Light for the past couple months. At first, undoing and retightening
the gas cap made the light go out...when that didn't work any longer,
a new cap worked, for awhile. It has come back 24/7, when the
car is on. The CR-V is 5 1/4 years old, had it since new; has less than
60K miles. Engine is the 2.4 L 4 cylinder i-VTEC, with ~160 hp.
I took it to our local hillbilly Autozone and they ran the code checker:
3 Codes:
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P0134 Definition: HO2S 11,(or 1...1?) circuit condition (Heated Oxygen Sensor Bank 1 Sensor 1)
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P1166 Definition: Primary HO2S (No.1) Heater System Electrical
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P1298 Definition: electrical Load Detector Circuit High Input
The guy at AZ had zero clue what to buy, how to fix it...
The car runs fine, (for a pos Honda CR-V), but the annual NC inspection
is coming up and these codes will make it fail.
I GOOG'd the codes and never got a really good info hit; it usually lead
me to Honda forums by the dozens, with thousands of threads, much
like this X5 Board, but in my speed reading perusal, I never found a
real match or, a diagnosis, or a how to fix.
Here in HillbillyHeaven, the car "repair" joints are low tech and limited in
scope; I dread rolling into one and having them "fix it". The closest Honda
car dealer is south of Asheville, doable, but it's a Honda Stlr-ship, if you
get my drift.
Any tips, opinions, comments are appreciated...or, I may have to bite the
bullet and hit the Honda joint.
Thanks,
Ol'UncMtr
PS: I was a decent wrench, back on pre-'80ish cars,
.