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My Honda did this. I replaced the battery and the passkey system got confused. Allegedly there is a VIN-tied procedure for temporarily overriding it (e.g. Tur
by coredog64 10y ago
My Honda did this. I replaced the battery and the passkey system got confused. Allegedly there is a VIN-tied procedure for temporarily overriding it (e.g. Turn on car, pump brakes 3 times, turn to accessory, back to on pump brakes twice, etc.). Shockingly, the dealer declined to share it with us, forcing a tow to the service center.
If you are buying a new car with a passkey system, make sure to extract the code before you sign the papers.
- icantdrive55 10y agoThanks. I've been looking at new cars, and a bit scared. I've been to automotive school, and never needed to bring my vechicles to the dealership. If things don't change, I might be forced into going into those $225/hr. dens of mystery. When I'm doing the negotiations; I do plan on insisting a shop manual, but even a shop manual can only do so much. It's that closed computer that scares me. Taking out a battery and the car won't start is unacceptable. (I understand a vechicle needs to relearn the pulse widths of the EFI system, after a power interrupt. Actually--I don't even understand that. The computer should have a rechargeable battery that remembers the last data points? Or, go into "open loop" until the computer relearns? I find any vechicle that won't start after taking a battery out just wrong.)