I recently bought a 98 CL3.0 (private sale) that didn't have the remote with it. I purchased a new remote from the dealer and had them walk me through the programming process. The locks work fine with the remote but the alarm will not arm. There is no chirp and the lights will not flash when I lock or unlock the car. I can't set off the alram, I have tested this by locking myself in the car waiting several minutes and opening doors or the hood. When the doors are open the car will chirp if I hit the lock button which indicates to me that the door sensors are fine. It does not do this if the hood is open. Could there be problem with the hood sensor? I remeber reading somewhere that someone had disabled the alarm on an integra by doing something to the hood sensor, do you think that this could have been done to my CL. Anybody know where the hood sensor is located and how to test it? Any other suggestions on how to diagnos this problem?

 

hmm.... i dont know where the sensors are located, but you can turn the chirp on or off buy pusing the trunk and lock button simultaneously for over a second. hope that helps

 

I have tried turning the chirp on and off, the main problem is the alarm itself is not arming. If I hit the lock button then hit the unlock button and wait 30 secs with out touching the doors the doors automaticly lock. If I then hit the unlock button the lights will flash and the car chirps. I have gone through this process and tried manually opening the doors or hood and the alarm will not go off. Also the little led light on the door does not flash with the doors locked.

 

does that security light on the driver side door come on?

b/c our alarm is kinda tricky. it takes about 30 seconds to lock. it'll go off if you unlock the door from the inside w/ the black latch, not w/ the silver knob.

to make the alarm chirp, you hold down the lock and trunk button together for like 4 seconds. 1 blink means chirp, 2 blinks means silence

 

Good news and bad news. My alarm is now working for the first time since I bought the car back in November, bad news is my hood sensor does not work. I read some old postings about alarm troubles and discovered that the alarm will still work if you unplug the hood sensor. The plug is right in front of the radiator, once I unpluged the sensor the alarm armed and chirped as it should. That means that the sensor was telling the car that the hood was open which is why the alarm would not arm. If you leave the doors open and hit the lock button the car chirps 3 times to let you know, apparently this doesn't happen if the hood is open. I'm just happy to have alarm mostly working now.

 

Maybe you just need to lower the hood a little bit for it to register that it's closed. There's four rubber stoppers that you can twist to make them shorter or longer. Try making them shorter so the hood closes tighter.

 

I pulled off the whole latch and pushed down the sensor with a screw driver as far as it could go, it still wouldn't complete the circuit. Tonight I'm going to just pop the sensor off the latch mechanism and open it up to see if I can clean it out. I figure if I break the small little plastic case it is in no big deal it's broken anyways. I called the dealer and I can't buy just the sensor, I have to buy a whole new latch. I'm no sure if it is worth it.

 

Definately a bad hood pin. You can replace it with an aftermarket hoodpin. Or just leave it unplugged. Or buy another from the dealership. It's a snap to replace.

Just for shits... Your alarm brain is under your passanger seat. It's actually a pretty good setup. Considering that it's factory. Good luck man.

 

Thanks... I'm hoping to find a used one but it seems almost impossible to find a CL in a junk yard. I have not tried calling the local part shop to see if they have the hood latch and sensor as an aftermarket part. The dealership price is $100 I'm hoping to repair this for less money.

 

ONE HUNDERED BUCKS!! You gotta be joking. We buy aftermarket pins for less than a buck. I'd buy an aftermaket hoodpin and adapt the Acura plug to it. Holy Shiznit. Just unplug that mug.