[b]I just got meself a honda 2001 accord(baby boy to all of us). The thing is that the fan in the engine(the one that blows the radiator) doesn't work unless i switch on the compressor for the AC. is this normal? One mechanic told me that i must always have that fan on at anytime cos the engine might heat up and end up damaging the head gasket. He was talking about building another relay system for the fan so that it will automatically kick up immediately the car is started without switching on the AC, but i'm holding back. I thought that if at all the engine gets hotter, then Honda must have realised this and built a sensor somewhere which will sense this increase in temperature and automatically start the fan to cool the engine down. I didn't have time to do anything about this when i went to pick the car up from Lagos on saturday as i had to be back here in abuja by sunday evening, ,so i just dumped the ride at home in IB.

Now peeps are there any of you out there using my same type of car? do u think i shld just leave it and not tamper with the relay system? i don't really trust all these road-side rewire men and there jobs. besides they had dome the same to my brother's car sometimes last year, and the end of which the relay that was buit eventually failed and ended up destroying the radiator. What do u guys suggest? here's a pix of the car.

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There are still things to check on.
Hot hot is the thermometer in your car. If it is below 185 it not hot enough so fan will not come on.
Did anybody remove the thermostat?

Do not ry to rewire, worst case scenerio is to remove the relay and swap is with one of same rating in the fuse box(check your fuses first) just to see if its a bad relay.
If the fan is working with AC fan motor is good smack the temperature sensor if your thermometer is not reading.

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Mess with your car at your own risk.