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Old 02-19-2009 | 06:29 PM
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Help with grounding (FIT IN LITHUANIA)

Hello! here's my Fit (1st image) I bought it from iaai.com auction in USA, shipped it to Lithuania (Europe) took new parts and repaired <............> And here we go, I have almost new car with 5555miles about 10k km on it.
It's better, cheaper than europian Jazz with the years like this.

But I have a little problem that I want to solve it my self. The fender was wrecked and 3 of five ground wires was cut (2nd image). So what are these grounds for? all of airbags are good but the driver's belt was stucked after that airbags didn't deployed !? I gues that one of these grounds could be for the SRS unit or smth like that, the airbag light in the gauge cluster is on and the "passenger airbag off" is blinking. tried to reset the airbags with MES conection but its stil the same. The belt was unstucked by local crafstman. I think it's needed to be changed too but at first want to know what are these grouds FOR? don't want to fix those grounds because not sure if the srs sensors are still good nor none of them was wrecked visualy. "check engine" light is ok it offs then the engine is on.

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Old 02-19-2009 | 06:40 PM
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IIRC, all the SRS wiring has yellow tape on it or the plug ends are yellow (note the sensor in the bottom left of the 2nd picture). As those ground wires are not color coded, I'd go ahead and hook them up. Personally, I'd want to make certain that all the ground wires are hooked up. More electrical problems stem from bad grounds...

I remember working on a diesel Chevy pickup when I was in the Army. The check engine light came on and I troubleshot that. Once the problem was 'fixed', several other lights came on on the dash. After almost a week of messing around with a multimeter, running continuity tests and voltage drop tests, I found that the ground strap from the engine to the firewall wasn't tight. Note that I didn't say it was loose! You couldn't move it with your hands. I gave it a good half turn with the wrench and the lights all went out.
 
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Old 02-19-2009 | 06:48 PM
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those grounds aren't with yellow tape, color ended. so can I just fix those grounds and go to the 2nd my problem blinking airbag light? any othe oppinions?
 
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Old 02-19-2009 | 06:51 PM
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and the other question: are the srs sensors grounded simly like other items? or it goes straight to the srs unit +/- together?
 

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Old 02-21-2009 | 05:27 AM
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those grounds aren't with yellow tape, color ended. so can I just fix those grounds and go to the 2nd my problem blinking airbag light? any othe oppinions?
That's what -I- would do. I can't say with certainty that something else might go wrong, but those ground wires are there for a reason. Best thing for you to do (since the car is in the condition it's in) would be to purchase a Honda service manual. There should be wiring diagrams in there somewhere.
 
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Old 02-21-2009 | 06:33 AM
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i guess one of the wire is for the ventilator bc i was in a traffic jam and the engine temperature went a bit high. ok I'll fix those wires asap. but the 2nd problem is airbag lights. If one of SRS system component is wrong (driver seat belt in my case) should both airbag lights be on, "the red one" in gauge cluster and blinking "passenger airbag off" in dash?
 
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Old 02-24-2009 | 06:52 PM
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That's how it looks like now Winter time in Lithuania, ugly wheels

 
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