AndyHK
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Want to share my experience
You read it right, usually I feel sad to see my hard earn money to leave my wallet, but not today.
I had problem with the battery, HFT and alarm in the last few months since I bought the car at the end of February.
New battery had installed 4 months ago, but still struggled to start the engine everyday. HFT never worked. False alarm many times and the keys wouldn't shut it up......Eventually I made up my mind and visit the Honda dealer 38 miles away this morning.
The mechanic said that the faulty HFT is to blame for the loss of the electricity, not the alternator. He disconnected it from the navigation system as I don't need it, and I'm not willing to spend £1600 for a new unit
The false security alarm problem was came from the old dead battery 4 months ago, he explained that the key MUST be removed from the ignition completely before attempts to perform the jump-start, even though if it was in the OFF position, but it will still trigger the problem. He advise me to get a second hand one instead of £800 for a new item
I've seen many members here mentioned about the ecu update/upgrade, he said that was correct about it, because Honda reckoned the car will have better performance after the update/upgrade. And so he done it for me as well, I could tell the car is definitely running with extra horses, so responsive and smooth. The extra torque made it picked up the pace quickly!
1.5 hours at Honda and cost me £60 but gained some useful advise, then another £40 for the alarm unit. Although it's quite a lot of money to me, but I've no regret to this trip
You read it right, usually I feel sad to see my hard earn money to leave my wallet, but not today.
I had problem with the battery, HFT and alarm in the last few months since I bought the car at the end of February.
New battery had installed 4 months ago, but still struggled to start the engine everyday. HFT never worked. False alarm many times and the keys wouldn't shut it up......Eventually I made up my mind and visit the Honda dealer 38 miles away this morning.
The mechanic said that the faulty HFT is to blame for the loss of the electricity, not the alternator. He disconnected it from the navigation system as I don't need it, and I'm not willing to spend £1600 for a new unit
The false security alarm problem was came from the old dead battery 4 months ago, he explained that the key MUST be removed from the ignition completely before attempts to perform the jump-start, even though if it was in the OFF position, but it will still trigger the problem. He advise me to get a second hand one instead of £800 for a new item
I've seen many members here mentioned about the ecu update/upgrade, he said that was correct about it, because Honda reckoned the car will have better performance after the update/upgrade. And so he done it for me as well, I could tell the car is definitely running with extra horses, so responsive and smooth. The extra torque made it picked up the pace quickly!
1.5 hours at Honda and cost me £60 but gained some useful advise, then another £40 for the alarm unit. Although it's quite a lot of money to me, but I've no regret to this trip