Acura RL (1996-2004 year). Manual - part 224

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Driver’s Seat Wire Harness

C701

10

Under driver’s seat

Left side wire harness (C261)

C702

5

Under driver’s seat

Left side wire harness (C262)

C703

2

Under driver’s seat

Front up-down memory sensor

C704

2

Under driver’s seat

Rear up-down memory sensor

C705

10

Under driver’s seat

Power seat control unit

C706

7

Under driver’s seat

Power seat control unit

C707

7

Under driver’s seat

Power seat control unit

C708

2

Under driver’s seat

Slide sensor

C709

2

Under driver’s seat

Slide motor

C710

2

Under driver’s seat

Rear up-down motor

C711

2

Under driver’s seat

Front up-down motor

C712

4

Under driver’s seat

Recline motor

C714

2

Under driver’s seat

Recline limit switch

C715

10

Left side of driver’s seat

Power seat switch

C716

14

Under driver’s seat

Left side wire harness (C297)

Component Locations

To see where a component or connector is located on the car, look up its photo number in the
Component Location section in the back of the book. The photo will also tell you the color of
the connector, and how many cavities it has.

To see where
connectors and parts
are located, look up
their photos in the
Component
Location section.

3

VEHICLE
SPEED
SENSOR (VSS)

PHOTO 28

4

CRUISE
CONTROL
UNIT

PHOTO 53
VIEW 64

B

2

GAUGE
ASSEMBLY

VIEW 113

A

PHOTO 80

3

POWERTRAIN
CONTROL UNIT
(PCM)

PHOTO 80
VIEW 115

If there is no photo number below or beside a component name or a connector, ground, or
terminal number, look up that name or number in the appropriate Connector Identification
Chart in the Service Manual. The chart lists how many cavities a connector has, where it’s
located, and what it connects to. The related illustration shows the connector’s location on the
harness, and the harness routing.

Connector Identification and Wire Harness Routing

23-46

+

–

Connector

or

Terminal

Number of

Cavities

Location

Connects to

Notes

23-47

If a connector on a
schematic has no
photo number, look it
up in the Connector
Identification chart
and related illustration.

DRIVER’S POWER
SEAT WIRE
HARNESS

C703

C714

C710

C711

C712

C716

C702

C701

C706

C705

C707

C708

C704

C709

C715

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Connector Views

Connector Views

To see the configuration of a connector’s cavities, look up its view number in the Connector
View section in the back of the book. Each view includes the color of the connector, where it is
located, and what it connects to.

Use the Connector Views to help locate the proper cavity when you need to probe a connector.
It can be especially helpful if the connector has more than one wire of the same color. A dash
symbol ( ) indicates that the cavity is empty.

Connector views can also be used to help diagnose multiple symptoms in separate circuits
which could be caused by a single problem in a connector shared by those circuits.

Here’s an example:

1. Pick one of the multiple symptoms and look up the schematic for that circuit.

2. Make a list of all the in-line and fuse box connectors in that schematic (include page

numbers).

3. Then, in the Connector View section, look up each connector on your list to see if circuits

related to the other symptoms run through one of them. If they do, inspect that connector for
the problem.

Example: The blower, rear window defogger, and the windshield wiper don’t work. List all in-line
and fuse box connectors in the blower controls circuit and then check the Connector View
section (sample below). You find that C324 is common to the blower controls, rear window
defogger, and wiper/washer, so you inspect C324 and find the problem, bent terminals.

1. WHT (Blower controls)
2. YEL/BLU

(Rear window defogger)

3. BLK/WHT (Starting)

4. BLU/YEL (Wiper/washer)
5. BLU (Wiper/washer)
6. BLK/YEL (Ignition)
7. WHT/BLU (ABS)

21.

C324

– Brown
– Behind left kick panel
– Connects left engine compartment wire harness to

main wire harness

7

5

4

6

2

1

3

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Connector Views

In-line Connector View Index

Connector View

Connector View

C101

53

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C102

54

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C103

55

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C104

56

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C105

23

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C106

24

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C108

1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C114

57

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C123

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C130

26

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C146

25

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C171

58

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C181

59

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C201

71

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C202

27

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C305

20

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C306

36

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C307

47

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C324

21

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C325

76

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C326

72

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C327

89

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C328

48

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C331

66

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C402

37

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C403

90

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C404

49

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C405

60

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C406

3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C409

61

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C410

50

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C411

123

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C412

96

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C413

73

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C414

91

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C415

77

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C421

78

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C429

62

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C430

51

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C431

28

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C439

140

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C441

95

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C442

92

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C443

67

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C444

93

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C445

97

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C446

79

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C448

80

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C456

81

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C464

82

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C470

38

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C475

122

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C476

94

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C477

29

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C484

117

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C487

129

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C488

139

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C501

30

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C502

83

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C504

68

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C609

84

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C629

85

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C632

118

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C638

135

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C651

74

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C659

39

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C663

86

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C677

142

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C669

40

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C670

69

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C705

4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C709

31

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C710

32

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C743

131

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C744

33

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C748

41

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C753

42

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C764

34

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C768

43

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C783

5

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C793

6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

C901

22

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

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In this manual:

Indicates a strong possibility of

severe personal injury or loss of life if instructions
are not followed.

CAUTION: Indicates a possibility of personal injury
or equipment damage if instructions are not
followed.

NOTE: Gives helpful information.

CAUTION: Detailed descriptions of 

standard

workshop procedures, safety principles, and
service operations are not included. Please note
that this manual does contain warnings and
cautions against some specific service methods
which could cause PERSONAL INJURY, or could
damage a vehicle or make it unsafe. Please
understand that these warnings cannot cover all
conceivable ways in which service, whether or not
recommended by American Honda might be done,
or of the possible hazardous consequences of
each conceivable way, nor could American Honda
investigate all such ways. Anyone using service
procedures or tools, whether or not recommended
by American Honda,

 must thoroughly satisfy

themselves that neither personal safety nor
vehicle safety will be jeopardized.

All information contained in this manual is based on
the latest product information available at the time of
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