I recently opened my fuse box under the hood and i noticed that the dimmer relay fuse is missing. I haven't noticed any problems with the car but I also don't know what this relay does. Can somebody please explain what the relay does and do I need to replace it?

 

Does your high beams work?

 

yeah they work fine.

 

To your original question, the Dimmer relay is used to allow the high beam circuitry to point to ground (PINs No 1 and No 2) when power is delivered on the trigger PINs (No 3 and No 5). In Canadian models with DRL, this also helps to determine the position of the combination switch. Just to be sure, I took out my dimmer relay and this did disable the high beam lights and indicator.

Can you verify the relay and/or take a picture? The dimmer in my fuse box has 5-PINs was green.

 

Yeah, I will double check tomorrow. This is for my 98 V6 Accord, but I don't think theres a difference between the 3.0 CL.