beat30

Hey guys I imported a 2005 jdm honda legend few years ago it has about 120kms now. It seems to have a very intermittent power drain. I brought it to my mechanic and he looked at it but failed to find the exact source. He got it down to fuse #7 on the drivers side which would be the right side in this case. As he messed around with everything the drain went away and it was good for almost 6 months. But all of sudden it’s doing it again. I read how it’s the HFL in a lot of cases but I can’t seem to locate it. I opened up the kick plate on both sides and looked around extensively and can’t seem to locate any module. I’m thinking of opening both doors and disconnecting the door sensors and see if that fixes it. Does anybody know where the location of the HFL would be in the JDM honda legends or if it has one at all. Also any other ideas of what I could try to fix this. Thanks.

Nomgle

My Legend doesn't have the hands free kit - instead it has an old-school iPod connection in the front armrest.

The usual suspects for the drain are the HFL and the door handles. But my Legend doesn't have the fancy door handles either...

The usual way to find the problem is to measure the drain on the battery with a multimeter, and then start pulling fuses. As soon as a particular fuse makes the drain drop to almost zero, you've found the offending circuit - this is what your mechanic would have done to get down to Fuse #7. What is this fuse for ?

Blues Legend

The HFT is a black box on the LHS of the steering column on RHD Leg Ends.

Yes, it took me a while, to find it, too!

Mine now has an American accent and doesn't understand me if I don't, too.

How fast is the drain? I think it's alarm-related (if slow) and use a trickle charger. The 86 is similar in that regard.

beat30

I’ve been boosting it frequently to get it running and it doesn’t do it everyday. Whenever I boost it it to start it the alarm does go off. I’m getting a trickle charger from a friend tmr and start charging it instead. Hopefully my battery isn’t toast from boosting it so often but until I fix this issue I wont get a new one. Ill have a look if I can find the HFL.I saw it was a black box with a green connector. But I thought it would be on the right side of the steering column. It speaks to me in Japanese so I can’t use it at all. Not sure what fuse #7 does entirely I can look it up online but I’m not sure how accurate it is compared to my model. Maybe I’ll try finding the alarm and disconnecting that. Basically just disconnecting everything I think of until the issue resolves… another thing is my trunk sensor acts up and opens the trunk randomly if I don’t have the lock in the glove box pressed. Not sure if that could be draining power.

Blues Legend

If the trunk is the only thing that's malfunctioning, I'd start there.

Best of luck with it!