futak13

Hello honda-tech
i'm in urgent need of help and i tried searching this site for similar posts, but i couldn't find any. Help would be greatly appreciated.
here is what happened: Although i am new to working on cars, i wanted to attempt to swap my stock steering wheel from my 98' civic DX hatchback with that of an ap2. I disconnected the battery, waited for about 10 minutes, then started on trying to take the steering wheel off. However, i wasn't able to get those torx screws off, so i gave up. a couple of hours later, i needed to use the car, so i connected the srs plug and put the battery cables back on. when i did that, there was a spark and my alarm went off and does not stop even when i push the button on the controller. thus, the car is in the garage with the battery cables off.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

additional info:
-since i got the car from my brother in 2009, the alarm has not been working.
-i do have an aftermarket radio, but that was installed in 1999. and the alarm was still working then.

sorry for making this so wordy and i hope that someone can help this newbie out. thanks in advance!

eh9deux

Keep trying with the remote. It might take a couple of tries. If not, you might have to take out the brain of the alarm, usually located under driver side dash.

futak13

thank you very much for helping me out. I will try that later on today so that i wont wake up the neighbors.

futak13

i kept on trying to disable the alarm, and it didn't work. then, i found the spare remote, swapped the battery, and it disarmed. I'm an idiot. hahahaha now, i guess i have to figure out whats wrong with the remote.
thanks for your help, eh9deux.

eh9deux

No prob. This happened to me recently. lol. I panicked when the alarm went off when I reconnected the battery, so I just disconnected it. Tried it again and just mashed on the remote and it worked.