Have Radio Code but Can't Figure out How to Enter it

Hi,

I did a search before posting this but haven't found the right
answer... we bought our son a 1995 Honda Civic and didn't realize the
factory-installed radio wouldn't work after replacing the battery.
After searching on the web I found where the radio code sticker was in
the car but it doesn't look like I can figure out the right way to
enter the code.

One post said to use the presets and push the first one say, three
times if the first code number is three and so on. I tried that and
there's no response at all on the radio. It almost seems like there's
something I should push before or after entering these numbers, the
word CODE is constant and doesn't seem to be responding. I even tried
multiple times to just see if I could get code to change to error.

If anyone can give me advice I sure would appreciate it. My son really
misses his radio!

TIA,
Brenda

 

if code is 15435 just press the pre sets in that order and radio should come
on

 

I tried pressing them in that way as well as the other way and the
radio didn't do anything but sit there saying CODE. Geez, this sure
makes me feel stupid.

 

You may not have the correct code. Assuming you do, then you simply
press the numbers in order. However, if you enter the wrong code two
or three times then the radio locks up. If that has happened, you have
to wait one hour, with the radio turned on, for it to reset.




Elliot Richmond
Itinerant astronomy teacher

 

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Try pulling the under-hood fuse called RADIO/BACKUP for 30 seconds. Then
try the code again. This stuff is in the owner's manual. If you don't
have one, just search this newsgroup for the links to online manuals.

'Curly'

 

Undo pos of battery cable for 3min and then reconnect and try code again
assuming it is the correct code

 

Is 3 minutes enough time? I did the wait an hour thing (mis-remembered the
code and finally found the card with the correct code) and waited for the
radio to give the long solid beep letting me know to try the code again.

 

I think a couple of minutes would be long enough. The mainsail says to
wait an hour with the radio powered up, but I forgot about the trick
of turning off the power to the radio. Shutting off all power to the
radio for a few minutes should reset it.


Elliot Richmond
Itinerant astronomy teacher

 

Thank you to everyone who offered advice about how to get the code to
work. While I had punched in the code using the preset, it dawned on
me yesterday that I didn't let the car sit for an hour with the radio
on before I tried entering the code. So thank you for the advice, this
is what I did:

Turned the key so the accessory setting would be on (after putting the
car in the garage, I guess it wouldn't do me any good if it got stolen
out of the driveway!).

Set the kitchen timer for 60 minutes.

After the 60 minutes was up I went out and tried the code. I used the
presets, using the preset number for the code number (as in, preset #4,
preset #2, preset #1, preset #4, preset #1 for code number 42141). The
radio came on!! I thought I would be my teenage son's hero, figuring
it out for him, but he never seems very impressed with stuff I do so I
guess I am my own hero.

Thanks,
Brenda

 

Disconnect the battery until the radio loses the code again and let the
kid find out by himself how to reporgram it - then you will be our hero.

 

Do not be discouraged. It is not cool to be impressed by anything an
adult does. A decade from now he will be telling his friends all about
it.


Elliot Richmond
Itinerant astronomy teacher

 

that's called tough love