Does anyone know (and I'm hoping not through experience) if the car is clever enough to sense when it has been in an accident and automatically unlock the doors? I would hate to be in a serious accident and struggle to get out because the doors had auto locked.

 

Does anyone know (and I'm hoping not through experience) if the car is clever enough to sense when it has been in an accident and automatically unlock the doors? I would hate to be in a serious accident and struggle to get out because the doors had auto locked.

This used to be done with an inetia switch on the Rover 75s, don't know if the Civic has one though. Having said that a lot of folk always drive with the doors locked, so how do they go on?

Reminds me of a 3 month old Jag that was on ebay for parts - a guy stopped at an accident and helped one of the injured into the back seat of his 'pride and joy', when the ambulance and fire brigade arrived the injured guy complained of numbness so the abulance guys afraid of a spinal injury got the fire brigade to remove the roof and doors from the Jag with hydraulic cutters before moving him! The Jag owner was not amused.

 

I was speaking to a Honda techie the other day and he checked the notice log for the 2006 Civic (tells them of known bugs and fixes etc) looking for the fix instructions for the fuel filler cap and he noticed that there is now a note on the system relating to auto door locks.....


"Auto door locking is a non UK market feature that some UK owners might accidentaly activate. If a car is found with autodoorlocking switched on it must be deactivated by following the procedure below...." :evil:

Or words to that exact effect.

So from that I'm guessing that Honda havent had the Autodoor locking hologomated for the UK market. Interesting.

 

I was speaking to a Honda techie the other day and he checked the notice log for the 2006 Civic (tells them of known bugs and fixes etc) looking for the fix instructions for the fuel filler cap and he noticed that there is now a note on the system relating to auto door locks.....


"Auto door locking is a non UK market feature that some UK owners might accidentaly activate. If a car is found with autodoorlocking switched on it must be deactivated by following the procedure below...." :evil:

Or words to that exact effect.

So from that I'm guessing that Honda havent had the Autodoor locking hologomated for the UK market. Interesting.

"hologomated" - Sorry??

And I don't see why they'd want to panic and disable it! Although I wouldn't care too much because I'd just stick it on again immediatly. I just hope that they don't disable it in a s/w fix or something.

 

I was speaking to a Honda techie the other day and he checked the notice log for the 2006 Civic (tells them of known bugs and fixes etc) looking for the fix instructions for the fuel filler cap and he noticed that there is now a note on the system relating to auto door locks.....


"Auto door locking is a non UK market feature that some UK owners might accidentaly activate. If a car is found with autodoorlocking switched on it must be deactivated by following the procedure below...." :evil:

Or words to that exact effect.

So from that I'm guessing that Honda havent had the Autodoor locking hologomated for the UK market. Interesting.

[cynical]

Do not accidentally do something that might be helpful to owners:

• If you find a spare wheel in the car, remove it and replace with sticky gunk.

• If you find a hands free telephone system that works, move the microphone to somehere where it won't be in range of the driver.

• Advertise a cheap pre-paid service package, and then refuse to supply it.

[/cynical]

 

hi guys been trying to set the automatic door locks but i cant seem to get this to work on my new ex honda i think i am doin something wrong but i dont know what or my car hasent got this function i dont think

 

I have it activated on my EX. No problem, just followed BG's advice (see 1st posting above). Make sure you are turning the key to postion II (it will not work in position I). :wink:

 

hi guys been trying to set the automatic door locks but i cant seem to get this to work on my new ex honda i think i am doin something wrong but i dont know what or my car hasent got this function i dont think

I had trouble until I realised that the drivers door needs to be open while you are doing the setup. My usual problem, if all else fails, read the manual. :roll:

 

Did mine ok with the door closed?


The bit I DID get wrong at first though, was working out what was meant by the 'door lock button' - it's the one on the door itself, near the window switches.

NOT (as I was trying ) the lock button on the remote...


The other thing I did wrong at first (PC inside, car outside, crap memory LOL) was not turning it back to postition I...


But once I wrote it out, and carried the PostIt to the car, it worked fine

 

Following what CivPilot has said has anyone who has set the autolocks and had to take their car to Honda for any work found that the dealer has deactivated the autolocks ?

 

Following what CivPilot has said has anyone who has set the autolocks and had to take their car to Honda for any work found that the dealer has deactivated the autolocks ?

No, mine are still auto-locking after 7 days and 3 visits to the dealer to get the leaking rear window fixed.

 

finally got round to doing this and i love it already

 

Got mine working - hadn't read it properly to begin with and forgot to switch key back to position I after double locking noise from doors lock switch. Now I've followed instructions properly, works a treat...

 

Unfortunately, this will only work for 2006 models. If you get a 2007, then it has been deleted from the software.

How do you know which model year you have?

- 2006 : SHHFK37606U000258
- 2007 : SHHFK37607U000258

The 2 bold digits show you.

Pottsy

 

Unfortunately, this will only work for 2006 models. If you get a 2007, then it has been deleted from the software.

How do you know which model year you have?

- 2006 : SHHFK37606U000258
- 2007 : SHHFK37607U000258

The 2 bold digits show you.

Pottsy

How the 'eck do you find this out......

 

It is also worth noting that doing this is NOT officially recommended by Honda.

 

Why would the feature be removed? Does it affect something else?

 

It isn't a supported/documented function of the car.

 

ooppsss.....

Silly me

 

The only reason i can see that they would remove the function would be that the doors dont unlock in an accident, Not a theory i am willing to test,

 

I thought about that too, but as the doors can all be locked from the driver's door controls, it doesn't seem likely (though like you I'm not keen to find out for sure!).

 

Do you think that it'll be removed if they flash the s/w of an 06 car during the service?

 

No. The software for the door unlocking is not in the ECU, so it's with your car for life!

 

I would imagine so if they do reflash.

 

Just something to bear in mind for those setting it.

 

finally done this, took me a while to stop locking manually, nothing special but a really useful feature.

 

I took car to garage this morning to get HFT sorted. Had a noise coming from dash area - the guy from service came with me in car so could try and get noise to happen. Typical it didn't!

Anyway... as I drove off the locks automatically locked as per these instructions. The service guy said "Oh you've been on that website then?"

civinfo.com is definitely growing... Sounds like Honda dealerships around the country are all getting to know about this amazing site.

 

Sounds like Honda dealerships around the country are all getting to know about this amazing site.

Looks like it's time for me to change my user name.

Best regards,

Boris

 

They have ignored/not seen the directive to dealers about this then!