Hi everybody! I have a 2007 RDX and left my sunroof cracked and it rained all of a sudden, getting the interior of my car all wet (mainly near the gear shifter area)!! And now my backup lights stay on all the time. Even when the keys aren't even in the ignition. When I drive, the backup camera stays on all the time as well... Does anybody know why this is happening?? I checked the fuses and nothing is wrong! Any help would be great! I unplugged the car from the battery so the battery won't be draining.

 

Same fix as you'd use on a wet cell phone. Dry it out and see if it fixes the short. Try using compressed air instead of rice.

 

sound/nav switching hardware down there must have gotten wet...

That's where my iPod adapter sits. I believe there's some kind of electronics down there, I just hesitate to claim to be sure which.

 

My guess was that the gear selector electrics got wet and the switch for "in reverse" is shorted closed.

OP?

 

How can I get this mod!?

lol j/k...any updates OP?

 

Ha! Looks like you may do it by going thru the car wash with the sun roof open!

 

 

 

 

I'm so glad I finally found a thread on this, and that I finally have proof of this!!!


Reverse lights didn't get stuck on this time, but just like OP, they usually do... This will happen once a month of so... It rained heavily overnight yesterday... It did fine on a 90 minute drive, but during the afternoon, 6-8+ hrs. after the heavy rain, it goes and pulls this on me...

When filling up the gas tank, it magically came back on... Stopping/restarting did nothing, nor did eating sonewhere with car parked for an hour...

I have tons of other problems too... Like about 9 months ago, the windows stayed in courtesy mode for a few hours one night, without and with the doors locked and armed via keyfob...

Shortly after, the courtesy window feature, which keeps the windows powered, completly quit and now, the key has to be in the ON position for the winds to work at all... My TL did this for 5 minutes one night, but fixed itself!!! Another TL owner I know of said the same thing in an old thread from years ago, if memory serves me right!!!

 

I need this mod too. I can't get my backup to come on at all!

 

 

 

 

It is crazy how much that little plastic $3 lens costs! Luckily I found the issue was just that it had somehow unplugged itself. I just reconnected it in the liftgate connection and poof it worked!

 

I started expirecing this issue sunday morning, i have disconnected the battery for a couple hours. To reset the system.This did not work, The nav screen came on for a couple seconds Tuesday morning n then went away. Earlier tonight the nav screen came on while merging into the hwy turning my steering wheel slightly to the right. Its really weird.

 

I had to disconnect my backup lights, they remain on even after the car was completly off. There must be a relay somewhere thats stuck. In terms of wiring i understand its all stationary i cant really see wiring corroding but u never know. Diagnosing electrical problems are pita.

 

This happens to me too... Usually after a lot of rain... Maybe the range sensor... My OBD is throwing a code on mine, occasionally...

 

We got 10-15 centimeters of snow today, Happy to report the maps came back, it glitch once or twice. I tested the functionality several times working as intented. I'm not happy though because the root of the problem as not been dealt with. The potential for the device to malfunction again is present. Therefore is likely to happen again. If anyone is able to determine which relay is the culprit, Please share your findings.

 

Perhaps unrelated, both my upper center dome lights n rear dome light do not work. The programmable garage buttons do not work either. This all happen after my alarm was trigger some time ago, fuses are ok! Within the same front upper console theres 2 blue courtesy lights and those appear to work fine. Its just very strange, the wiring of the interior lights are something else. The door puddle lights are not wired on the same circuit with the upper dome lights n yet they are trigger by the same door switch.

 

 

My 08 RDX Tech is having problems with the back up camera stuck on ON all the time. I notice when i turn on the fan the screen would switch to NAVI mode real fast and switchback to rear camera mode .Any ideas what is wrong.

Thank you.

 

That's weird maybe try a transmission pressure switch...

 

This is usually an electrical problem. It's a module under the cupholders, I think.

 

Only happened to me once I was pretty freaked out it’s weird...guess I got luck it never happened again

 

I was trouble shooting the problems i am having with the rear camera image showing on the navi screen regardless of the car is in DRIVE, PARK, NEUTRAL OR REVERSE. I have discovered that if the tailgate is in the OPEN position. It would go back to normal operation. Which is allow me to press the OK at the screen start up. Any ideas what is going or how to fix this.?

 

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by any chance, do you got any info. on this?
my RDX 2012 back up camera is always on and reverse lights are always on as well. Had to disconnect them.