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Car Forum / Honda Cars / November 2007Remote Keyless Entry Not Working
I have a 1998 Honda Civic EX 4-door. I have 188,400 miles or so. I've had the car 9 years, 4 months. My keyless entry is not working. I tried changing the battery (CR2025), but the thing still does not work. Do I have to have the thing reprogrammed, or do I need a new keyless entry system? -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutautos.com/group/alt.autos.honda/ More information at http://www.talkaboutautos.com/faq.html > I have a 1998 Honda Civic EX 4-door. I have 188,400 miles or so. I've had > the car 9 years, 4 months. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Message posted using http://www.talkaboutautos.com/group/alt.autos.honda/ > More information at http://www.talkaboutautos.com/faq.html ---------------------------- Try the other remote. That will confirm if the car is OK. The led on the remote confirms whether the little battery is OK. Did this suddenly happen, or are you getting the car ready to sell? 'Curly' > I have a 1998 Honda Civic EX 4-door. I have 188,400 miles or so. I've had > the car 9 years, 4 months. > > My keyless entry is not working. I tried changing the battery (CR2025), > but the thing still does not work. Do I have to have the thing > reprogrammed, or do I need a new keyless entry system? If the battery died, then it will need to be reprogrammed. Look in the owner's manual, or do a Google search on something like '98 civic reprogram' or something like that. You may have to have the dealer do it, as a lot of the '90's Japanese cars had dealer-installed keyless entry systems (i.e., they didn't come that way from the factory). My son's '99 Subaru Legacy had that problem, and the local dealer could not help as it was a different brand than they installed. Became a moot point when my son wrecked the car. ;-) Dan D '07 Ody EX Central NJ USA > If the battery died, then it will need to be reprogrammed. ----------------------- The dealer will probably charge 1/2 hour, unless he has a real good relationship with them. Each key fob has a digital 'signature'. The car remembers the signatures of up to three fobs. If the fob would loose it's signature each time the battery got changed, we'd be hearing a LOT MORE questions about how to program them. Warlock needs to determine that the fobs are all working by the LED, and then reprogram the fobs to the car if they prove to be OK. The instructions are all over the Web. 'Curly' >> If the battery died, then it will need to be reprogrammed. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > 'Curly' That is the same problem I am going through with my late wife's 1997 Civic. The keyless works when it wants to. Although it had an alarm added to it in '97, I think the Honda Dealer installed unit still uses the factory radio for keyless entry. Well, I believe I traced my problem down to the factory radio that is FUBAR doing what it wants when it wants. The volume control works "if" it wants to and the electronic tuning drifts. Example: If I am listening to 94.5 FM, the station changes to 94.7 while driving with no interaction from me. Before my wife died, the CD changer quit working, so I replaced it with another Alpine, only to find that the new changer did the same thing as the old one (doh). My CD results are anything from playing fine, to NOTHING at all, regardless of the type of cd, slot number, etc. I hate to replace the radio and lose the alarm, but I may try to find a deal locally on both, even though I can install the dang radio. I just hate messing around with alarms, even though I can do it too! I am not the young man that I once was and twisting into those odd positions for an alarm install play hell on my back (lol). . . . . . .the CD changer quit working, so I replaced it with > another Alpine, only to find that the new changer did the same thing as > the old one (doh). My CD results are anything from playing fine, to > NOTHING at all, regardless of the type of cd, slot number, etc. -------------------------- Did your CD ever 'mute' for about two seconds, several times per song? The one in my Odyssey does that and it's very weird. It doesn't pause, just mute. Doesn't matter if warm or cold, bumpy road, nothing. 'Curly' > . . . . . .the CD changer quit working, so I replaced it with >> another Alpine, only to find that the new changer did the same thing [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > 'Curly' Yep, that is what I would describe it as. Not quite skipping per say, but, more or less a muting type of issue. Then again, what more should I expect from a 10 year old electronic device or more specifically, the head unit? |
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