'04 Accord DX: no radio code?

My dad recently bought an '04 Accord DX, and just realized last week
that he'd not received a radio code in any of the usual places when he
took delivery. He stopped by the dealer, and they said they'd look it
up, but after a while came back and said that the DX models didn't have
a radio code as that feature wasn't offered on them.

Is this true, or is the dealer mistaken (deliberately so or otherwise)?
I thought the radio code/anti-theft measures were radio-specific, not
model-specific.

Dave

 

I find it hard to believe that an Accord does not have a code entry
procedure with the CD/Radio on a 2004 model.I have a 2003 (bought new
last December) Honda Civic EX and it has one.And the Civic is considered
a lower level car BELOW the Accord line.So,the Accord should have one
just because it is a higher priced model vehicle.I am no expert on
Accords,but this sounds logical to me.

 

The 2004 LX radio doesn't. I installed the add-on tape deck and called the
dealer to get my codes. They told me it didn't use one. After
disconnecting power and reconnecting it, the radio still worked (stations
did need to be reset.)

 

My '03 Accord DX has no radio code. The radio simply isn't worth
stealing (AM/FM/CD, with provision for a CD changer). The higher
trim lines have different radios.

--Gene

 

This is only the EX trim models. There should be a little red led
light that flashes when the car is turned off.

Hope this helps,
Nick

 

You know, your father just bought a $20,000 car.

Don't you think that ONE of you would have bothered to look this up in
the owner's manual?

Or did you just throw that away, because after all you know how to drive
a car.

$20,000 is apparently nothing to you, like spending $3 on a watch. Who
needs an owner's manual?

 

a DX model sells for about $15k plus options

 

Elmo,

Chill dude! I seriously doubt that the owners' manual even mentions radio
codes since the radio doesn't require it (I'm out of town right now or I'd
double check my manual.) Why do you have to be a jerk, the man was asking a
very reasonable question.

 

Yes, it does. The manual references ALL radio models, because there's
only one single manual for all trim levels.

Which you'd know if you'd bothered to read the bloody thing.

Bullshit. Read the owner's manual first, BEFORE asking to be spoon-fed
information that's clearly documented.

This world is full of people who expect to be spoon-fed at every turn.

 

It certainly is. Unfortunately for you, I'm not one of them.

I didn't have ready access to either my dad's car or its owner's manual
at the time, so I posted the question here instead. Since the dealer he
purchased the car from was the same one who told him to bring the car in
so they could look up the radio code, maybe you ought to be telling them
to RTFM instead of me.

I suggest you save your vitriol for such boils on the backside of Usenet
as spammers, trolls, and top-posters, instead of embarking upon
misguided crusades against people with legitimate questions. In the
meantime, I cordially invite you to kneel and nurse.

Dave

 

You had access to your father, who certainly had access to the manual.
You could have asked him, "Hey, have you looked in the manual?"

I have no comment on the dealership. Of course, they may not have known
you were talking about a non-EX model.

When you come here asking to be spoon-fed very obvious things that are
well-documented in the owner's manual for your shiny new
many-thousand-dollar automobile, that's not legitimate.

 

Dave: my '03 DX didn't come with a radio code either. My '04 LX did come
with a radio code. As far as the manual goes, it might be that it is
inaccurate. The version that I got is for all models and generically says a
radio code is required. (That wouldn't be the only inaccuracy in the
manual. I noticed that the oil volume in the manual is different than what
the technical spec's say on the Honda website. I noticed that when I
changed the oil and it was about 1/2 quart low.) Anyway, I'm glad you
posted because that was something that I have been meaning to check out in
prepration for that first battery change.

 

I didn't have ready access to either my dad's car or its owner's manual

Yes, as I recently noted, this group has more than its fair share of assholes.

Ignore them.

JM

 

elmo_fag_nasty drives a 20 year old Civic.... explains why he lashes out at
those who can afford new cars.




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I just got a radio code for my 1995 accord last year from the dealer.
It took him a couple of days to find it so I think that this guy just
doesn't want to do the work. Find another dealer.

 

Subject: Re: '04 Accord DX: no radio code?

My radio code card was missing at delivery as well. During the whirlwind of
signing the paperwork,I forgot about it. The next day, The dealer removed the
radio,obtained the serial number and got the code from american honda. I have
an LX,in the owners manual it talks about the code and how to re-enter it