{"id":636,"date":"2011-08-18T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2011-08-18T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:54:23","slug":"how-to-fix-1997-honda-accord-drl-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"How To: Fix 1997 Honda Accord DRL Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common problem with the Daytime Running Light (DRL) module in many 90&#8217;s Honda vehicles is cold solder joints at the relays in the control module. These develop over time, and cause sometimes intermittent issues with running lights. I encountered this problem, which would usually present itself on mornings with lots of dew, and would fix itself sometime during my commute to work. Rather than pay a mechanic to repair or replace the module, you can do it yourself with some basic tools.<\/p>\n<p>A Google search will reveal many forums and sites with instructions to fix this problem: here are the two links which I consulted prior to performing these repairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyx.net\/~smanley\/hondadrlfix\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nyx.net\/~smanley\/hondadrlfix\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hondaaccordforum.com\/forum\/general-tech-help-7\/drl-fix-3719\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.hondaaccordforum.com\/forum\/general-tech-help-7\/drl-fix-3719\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 360px; width: 600px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PmsAtZn_JOA?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PmsAtZn_JOA?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common problem with the Daytime Running Light (DRL) module in many 90&#8217;s Honda vehicles is cold solder joints at the relays in the control module. These develop over time, and cause sometimes intermittent issues with running lights. I encountered this problem, which would usually present itself on mornings with lots of dew, and would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[197,199,44,198,196,101,102],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-projects","category-electronics","tag-accord","tag-daytime-running-lights","tag-diy","tag-drl","tag-honda","tag-relay","tag-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}