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I just experience this for my first time this last week/weekend :act060: so I thought I’d share. I did find a few somewhat related topics on this within the forum, but if this helps any one then my experience will not been in vain. It’s been pretty cold here in Utah lately as it’s be on average hovering around 12 to 22 degrees in December & January thus far. Recently I’ve found myself locked out of my vehicle. When I press my unlock on my key once I can hear the lock respond, but the doors do not unlock. I press unlock twice on my key fob again I can hear the door locks respond, but again no luck on opening doors. I press and hold on unlock after pressing it twice but hold down on the unlock on my fob so that the windows would roll down but still no such luck.
I ended up waiting until about 10am until my Ridgeline’s battery was able to muster an unlock which it finally did. I was able to pop the hood and saw that the positive terminal was heavily corroded. I did not have a steel brush to clean it off, so I dumped a can of Coke on the positive terminal post as the phosphoric acid will eat away at the corrosion. I was able to pull the battery out and dump some really hot soapy water to clean up after the sticky coke syrup.
I did go get another battery for my Ridgeline that had a little bit better Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) and what do you know; once I was able to get the battery back in everything started running like a champ. I did make sure they next morning that it was able to start up in the weeeeee hours of the morning. I will also be testing my alternator (I have a charger/alt tester) to ensure it's charging the battery like it should. I have not done that yet. I bought my 2006 RTL used in 2014, and I never have replaced the battery.
Now I had not bothered with this until I dropped my kiddos off for school on Monday, but just after I dropped them off I turned on the radio and found it asking for a Radio Code. Perplexed I searched for some answers online which was giving me all sorts of answers to try. I found that this is indeed a code that the Honda Dealer can provide for you over the phone for free, however they need the radio serial number from your truck.
So in order to get the radio serial number I had to do the following…
I just experience this for my first time this last week/weekend :act060: so I thought I’d share. I did find a few somewhat related topics on this within the forum, but if this helps any one then my experience will not been in vain. It’s been pretty cold here in Utah lately as it’s be on average hovering around 12 to 22 degrees in December & January thus far. Recently I’ve found myself locked out of my vehicle. When I press my unlock on my key once I can hear the lock respond, but the doors do not unlock. I press unlock twice on my key fob again I can hear the door locks respond, but again no luck on opening doors. I press and hold on unlock after pressing it twice but hold down on the unlock on my fob so that the windows would roll down but still no such luck.
I ended up waiting until about 10am until my Ridgeline’s battery was able to muster an unlock which it finally did. I was able to pop the hood and saw that the positive terminal was heavily corroded. I did not have a steel brush to clean it off, so I dumped a can of Coke on the positive terminal post as the phosphoric acid will eat away at the corrosion. I was able to pull the battery out and dump some really hot soapy water to clean up after the sticky coke syrup.
I did go get another battery for my Ridgeline that had a little bit better Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) and what do you know; once I was able to get the battery back in everything started running like a champ. I did make sure they next morning that it was able to start up in the weeeeee hours of the morning. I will also be testing my alternator (I have a charger/alt tester) to ensure it's charging the battery like it should. I have not done that yet. I bought my 2006 RTL used in 2014, and I never have replaced the battery.
Now I had not bothered with this until I dropped my kiddos off for school on Monday, but just after I dropped them off I turned on the radio and found it asking for a Radio Code. Perplexed I searched for some answers online which was giving me all sorts of answers to try. I found that this is indeed a code that the Honda Dealer can provide for you over the phone for free, however they need the radio serial number from your truck.
So in order to get the radio serial number I had to do the following…
- Start with everything powered off in park, I was able to turn my key in the ignition to ACC which would not start the Ridgeline but rather provide power in the cab.
- (This is the fun part) With one hand press and hold down the Number 1 and the Number 6 while with the other hand power on the radio. Doing this should provide the serial number which looks to be about 8 digits long but in two segments of 4 digits.
- Read off the serial number to the Service Dept. over the phone and they should be able to provide you a sequence to enter back in on your radio to unlock the Radio & Anti-Theft. If the S/N goes away simply repeat the process once more in steps 1 & 2.
