98 Accord with Alarm problem

[jtluvul]

Hi,

I have a 1998 Accord EX Sedan. Recently, I replaced the battery on it. After installing the new baterry, everything worked just fine. But after a couple of drive cycles, my alarm started to act up. Here's what I mean by saying acting up:

Before: in order to get in my car, I would use the remote for the alarm an press the button to unlock the alarm which at the same time would unlock the driver's door. If I pressed the unlock button on the remote a second time then it would unlock the rest of the other 3 doors. I open the driver door, get in, put the key in the ignition turn on the car and drive off.

Now: when I press the unlock button on the remote the driver's door unlocks but it doesn't deactivate the alarm. If I press the unlock botton a second time still unlocks the other 3 doors in the car but also, doesn't deactivate the alarm. So, as soon as I open the driver's door to get in, the alarm goes off. I have been just putting the key in the ignition and turn it to the run position and press a botton that's under the dash on the driver side that deactivates the alarm. But it's getting kind of annoying and would like to make everything work the same way it used to.

Any ideas on what could be happenning and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

[Onblsht]

Try reprogramming it - or maybe the remote is dying if you already tried changing batteries.

Here are the instructions.

do steps 1 - 12 on the same remote AT TIME OF PROGRAMMING BOTH REMOTES MUST BE PRESENT SINCE THEY WILL NOW BOTH BE HAVE TO REPROGRAM. the following steps 1-12 are done on a single remote step 13 is done on all remotes to be programmed upto 3 can be programmed

1) get into the car shut the doors and make sure they are unlocked
2) turn on the ignition (do not turn on the car just the ignition)
3) press the lock button on remote (turn to off )
4) turn key to the accessory ON position (your radio works in this mode)
5) turn on the ignition (do not turn on the car just the ignition)
6) press the lock button on remote (turn to off )
7) turn key to the accessory ON position (your radio works in this mode)
8) turn on the ignition (do not turn on the car just the ignition)
9) press the lock button on remote (turn to off )
10) turn key to the accessory ON position (your radio works in this mode)
11) turn on the ignition (do not turn on the car just the ignition)
12) press the lock button on the remote
the locks should chirp to indicate that programming mode was entered successfully
13) press the LOCK button on remote the doors should chirp again to confirm programming THIS STEP NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR EACH REMOTE
14) turn of the car fully and try locking/unlocking with remote

to turn on/off the chirping when locking/unlocking with remote do the following

press the trunk release button on the remote and hold it then while holding press the LOCK button on remote and hold it the led on the remote will flicker for about 1sec after it goes off release both buttons and test it the procedure for chirp on and chirp off is the same, this needs to be done on both remotes otherwise only the one programmed will allow chirping while the other will still be silent or viseversa

[blacknight]

I assume this is not the stock alarm, correct?