Re: Immobilizer Malfunction; Honda comes through (sort of)

[rooobosmith]

I finally got Honda to re-imburse me for my rental car expenses, so the defective immobilizer activation did not cost me anything except 12 hours of my time. Yeah!

I spoke to the So Cal district service manager today, and he told me that they've had 8 instances of the immobilizer disabling '06 Civics due to run down batteries. There were 3 with my dealership alone.

He also told me that this is a known problem (only) with the '06 Civic, but not planned or acceptable, and the engineers are working on a solution. He committed that Honda will have a fix, but could not say when.

I did try to reproduce this problem by running down the battery with the headlights, and the immobilizer was not activated, so it does not happen every time.

[CameronJr9]

Glad to hear you are getting this resolved! That's good news for the rest of us if it ever happens.

Probably could have updated your past thread though...instead of opening a new one. Just a thought.