About 10 days ago when I came out of a store and went to enter my 2016 CR-V EX the vehicles door was not locked. Then a few days ago as I was walking away from the vehicle I heard the doors unlock. I went back and locked them again and they unlocked again a few seconds later. I tried locking from the passenger side and the button on the trunk, and both of those locked it and it stayed locked each time I tried those. But when I lock it from the driver's side if I don't move quickly away from the vehicle it will unlock again. I had heard that these touch-sensitive door locks have had a high failure rate. So I happened to be in the area of the local Honda dealer and I stopped in and talked to a few people and found out that they want $590.55 for a door hand it was an hour's worth of labor to put it on and their labor charge is. $285 an hour. And both of those cost would have an additional 7% tax bringing the total to $936.84
Also, that they have replaced many of these.
So I thought I would try to see if I could fix it myself first.
We've had an awful lot of dirt settling on vehicles lately from just out of the air. So I was thinking possibly some dust got in there. I blasted it off really well at a self serve car wash. That did not help.
I washed the car and while I was doing that I washed the handle very well and then I treated it with some rubber treatment on the back side of the handle where the rubber part is. That did not help.
So I started thinking about what would be involved to remove the handle and clean it up inside very well if I could get it apart.
Then in the evening I realized that my problem started the same time when I started using my new phone, A Samsung Galaxy A 53 5G (referbished $150.00).
The time delay betwein locking the door and having it unlock on it's own was about the same amount of time that it would normally take for the door to unlock automatically if you had left the fob inside the car. So I started thinking that maybe my new phone is sending out enough of a signal to cause the vehicle to think that the fob is locked inside the car. So I put the phone a very far distance from the car and the problem went away. I brought the phone back and the problem reoccurred. So I started to think about what I could do to prevent the phone from causing this problem. I turned off Wifi connection and bluetooth connactions on the phone and the phone no longer causes the problem.
It's a bit of an inconvenience to keep these turned off. Because I do use them when I have the phone in the house. But when i'm going to exit the vehicle from now on I'll have to have this turned off.
I'm just passing this on to everyone. Because apparently an older vehicle that has a key fob may not be protected from interference from the more modern versions of cell phones. Mine certainly is not. My previous cell phone was a Samsung galaxy orbit and I had no problems with the door lock when I used that phone.
Also, I wonder if the design has been improved to not have this problem with modern more recent phones, and people are getting fleeced by the dealerships selling them an upgraded part.
And them thinking that the original part had failed when the problem is that the original can't handle the Interference that new phones cause. Also, it seams that the service person at the dealer is clue-less about what is actually going on. This is just speculation on my part, but it sounds pretty plausible.
Also, that they have replaced many of these.
So I thought I would try to see if I could fix it myself first.
We've had an awful lot of dirt settling on vehicles lately from just out of the air. So I was thinking possibly some dust got in there. I blasted it off really well at a self serve car wash. That did not help.
I washed the car and while I was doing that I washed the handle very well and then I treated it with some rubber treatment on the back side of the handle where the rubber part is. That did not help.
So I started thinking about what would be involved to remove the handle and clean it up inside very well if I could get it apart.
Then in the evening I realized that my problem started the same time when I started using my new phone, A Samsung Galaxy A 53 5G (referbished $150.00).
The time delay betwein locking the door and having it unlock on it's own was about the same amount of time that it would normally take for the door to unlock automatically if you had left the fob inside the car. So I started thinking that maybe my new phone is sending out enough of a signal to cause the vehicle to think that the fob is locked inside the car. So I put the phone a very far distance from the car and the problem went away. I brought the phone back and the problem reoccurred. So I started to think about what I could do to prevent the phone from causing this problem. I turned off Wifi connection and bluetooth connactions on the phone and the phone no longer causes the problem.
It's a bit of an inconvenience to keep these turned off. Because I do use them when I have the phone in the house. But when i'm going to exit the vehicle from now on I'll have to have this turned off.
I'm just passing this on to everyone. Because apparently an older vehicle that has a key fob may not be protected from interference from the more modern versions of cell phones. Mine certainly is not. My previous cell phone was a Samsung galaxy orbit and I had no problems with the door lock when I used that phone.
Also, I wonder if the design has been improved to not have this problem with modern more recent phones, and people are getting fleeced by the dealerships selling them an upgraded part.
And them thinking that the original part had failed when the problem is that the original can't handle the Interference that new phones cause. Also, it seams that the service person at the dealer is clue-less about what is actually going on. This is just speculation on my part, but it sounds pretty plausible.
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sounds like any kind of EMI/RFI frequencies is affecting the BCM.. then again think about leaving the car in a parking lot and anyone walks by with any cellphone! Park next to a cell tower?! etc.. BCM is faulty and needs to be looked at.
