On 9/6/04 1:14 AM, in article 000oj01q6v4q72q21la6f5mlvme81q90aa@4ax.com,
"Andrew J. Rozsa" <rozsa@usa.invalid> wrote:

> Wife drives a '03 Accord V6. She is annoyed about some of the
> "features." I could not find any information in the Manual that could
> help her.
>
> 1. Doors lock after she leaves the car, without her activating
> the remote control;

That sounds like a bug in the system. She should have the dealer look at
it. It is an intentional feature that when you first unlock the doors with
the remote, if a door (any door) is not opened within 20 seconds, they will
automatically re-lock, but that doesn't sound like the problem she is
having.

> 2. The interior lights don't stay on when she opens the driver
> door for a prolonged period of time;
> 3. The horn sounds when she clicks the second time on the remote
> and the alarm is activated - she wished that it made a quieter sound
> or no sound at all;

The alarm activates the first time you push the lock button. The horn
sounding on the second press is only for the purpose of reassuring yourself
that it heard you the first time. Tell her to only push it once if she
doesn't want to hear the horn. I don't see where there is a problem here.
This is a pretty well thought out feature and lets you have it pretty much
both ways (horn or no horn).

> 4. She has found no way to turn off the Navigator - she is
> concerned that once the Nav is on, there is no way of turning it off -
> she finds herself in some areas of the city where she does not want to
> attract attention with the Nav. Stopping an restarting the car (an not
> clicking on the OK) is sometimes NOT an option.
>

I agree this is an irritating quirk of the Honda Nav systems. Nothing can
be done about it. It is probably the only thing about the nav where Nissan
had a better idea - they have a display on/off button that blacks it out at
any time.

> I can't help her. The Prelude my son drives (inherited from me) is not
> that fancy, and the '04 TL that I drive allows programming for
> everything.
>
> Please help.
>
> TIA
>
> Best,
>
> Andrew