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Old Jun 24, 2007 | 10:00 PM
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hey my parents are thinking of buying one of these. how reliable are the cars? and i see a lot of posts about the radio codes. are radio problems on these cars?
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 03:52 AM
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what year are you looking at?

As far as the radio code goes people probably need to learn and search. Honda radios have that anti-theft radios. If you completely cut power to the radio (ie unplug the battery), you will need to re-enter the radio code to get the radio working. If you buy the car new the dealer should give you a card with the radio code on it with the rest of your things or if you buy the car used and it didn't come with the code you can get the serial from the radio and the dealer will be able to look it up for you.
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Old Jun 26, 2007 | 12:50 PM
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I don't think you should be concerned with the radio issue. It's a very small part of the car.
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Old Jun 30, 2007 | 04:48 PM
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people in here are idiots and did not write down or are just too damned lazy to get it from acura.....they worked on their cars and removed battery power and need the code to reactivate it.


or it is a theif who has a radio and wants the code......
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Old Jul 1, 2007 | 11:04 AM
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again what year,

the 99-03 AT's had a few problems with second gear over heating causing the transmission to not qork properly, most had the update done somehad the transmission replaced.

As a result I believe HOnda extended the transmission warrenty to 100k. At my dealer they jsut replace the transmissions now no more oil jet kits.

The radio's sometimes have problems with CD read errors, and almost 90% of the time when the CD's come back they are burned disc's which HOnda warns users about.

Of course the newest models read CD-R's and MP3 and WMA's all that **** so no worries there. HTe new ones haven't really had any consistent problems that I know of yet
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Old Jul 1, 2007 | 03:33 PM
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you can use CD-RW but you gotta use the ones that do not require the adhesive labels. Most CR-R are burned at a high rate and that can also cause problem. I burn all my CD's at 10X and have ever had a problem with using them.

If you use CD-R that has an addhesive label, it can cause the transport to jam because it (the CD) is THICKER than a commercial CD.
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