To Larch: The 10 min grace period cancels itself if any door is opened. That might be why yours is unforgiving, Larch.

To everyone: When all else fails, RTFM :P

 

Yes -- thanks Clutch!

 

This one is more an FYI than an Easter Egg, in all Hondas, including Acuras when you leave the key in the ignition and open the door the beep sequence you here is Morse code for the letter "H."

 

Great get!!! (How many people know that?) I'd call that an Easter Egg.

 

Hey sheik..nice one on the stealth mode thing.

Hip ... are you serous about the morse code thing? Thats pretty cool.

Some of you gotta RTFM though.

 

New to me... you can unload all of the CDs in the changer one at a time with the car off.

 

That just reminded me. We can have 6 cds in the changer, but our cd compartment only has room to hold 5 cd cases. Argg.

 

Most know the interior lights turn on and fade to black if you don't reopen a door. But have you noticed when you open a door, or unlock with the remote, the interior lights (headliner) will come on 100% bright and after you close the doors they instantly dim about 10% - 20%?

Only noticed it while detailing the car and thought the 30% window tint was causing it until I was sat inside and realized they do go dim after closing the door.

Now I need to check the fridge to see if the light inside really does go off? :thinking:

 

If you don't use the jewel cases but get the CaseLogic or tyvek sleeves, it holds about 15-20

 

The letter H is just 4 beeps "dit dit dit dit" - is that really morse code or just a coincidence?

 

I listened for that "code" tonight.. and I thought it was just three beeps. Sounds like a coincidence.

 

Has anyone figured out how to display the time on the song that the cd player is playing?

 

This probably isn't much help, but -- if, during "play," you hit "forward" or "reverse" (without going out of the "play" mode, ya know what I mean?), the time will be shown.

Really we'd like to be able to do it without having to do that.

 

Yeah, that would be nice to find out..

 

Actually you can fit in 6, but you have to take out the bottom rubber liner.

 

I don't think that it qualifies as an "Easter Egg", but when you are using the wipers on intermittent and you stop the car the wipers will do a quick wipe of the windshield as soon as you take your foot off of the gas.

I never had a car that did this. I think that it is very elegent in its simplcity. It makes a lot sense to me. Why didn't anyone do this before?

 

If you start to drive off with the E-brake up the car will start to "beep". It reminds you to shut off the brake.

 

Every time I am in my car I am playing around trying to figure out a way to do it. That's how I got the lights off easter egg I posted earlier in the thread!!

 

That's what I'm doing too.

 

Whats neat is that when the intermittent wipers are on, when you slow below 10km/h, the time between wipes is doubled- so that while youre waiting at a long red light you dont hear the squeal of wipers wiping a super dry surface.

J.

 

OK, OK, I got one.


When I put my key in the ignition and turn, nothing happens!! Oh sorry, that was my 2000 Jetta.

 

Welcome!

Not too many make their grand entrance with a funny.

 

That's called speed sensitive wipers. It only happens if you have your intermittant setting all the way fo the fastest (least time lapse) setting. With it in that setting your wipers will automatically go to the low setting when you reach a certain speed.
Maybe you are talking about something else??

 

This isn't really an "function" type easter egg, but more practical piece that most of you might not have seen. Look under the seat belt guides on the front pillars (you know... the adjustable height piece). You'll see a metal piece... those are usually plastic on most cars and get real crapped up over time. I thought it was a great detail.

 

The "turn the key to the left and the windows go up" feature is too slick. My wife's Passat can open and close all the windows and the sunroof with the key in the door. Now was thinkin' the TSX is cooler, 'cause I can do that AND roll the windows down remotely.

But, on the TSX the sunroof doesn't close! All the windows go up, but the sunroof doesn't close!!

It just started to rain outside, so I ran out thinkin, "I'm gonna be so slick and just close the sunroof with the key." [run to the car] "Here we go" [key in the door, turn left, turn left again... wait 5 seconds...wait 10 seconds]


nothin


Did Acura forget about the sunroof? or does the car have to be unlocked first? Doh.

 

Found a new one yesterday when I was playing with Navigation. After you get into Diagnostics mode (Press Map Guide/Menu/Cancel all at once for a few sec), select the GPS Information option. This screen provides information regarding what satellites TSX is currently using. On this screen, keep the Menu button pressed for a few seconds and another screen pops up. This screen lists incoming data from each individual satellite. In addition you see the gps calculated speed and heading information. Enjoy :-)

 

Isn't it amazing how many little things we can become preoccupied with? How about a new board game... TSX Trivial Pursuit?

Maybe I've been an engineer too many years, but wondered if anyone else who owned a previous generation Honda (or Acura) has noticed anything different regarding the fuel door?

I'll give you a hint, no resins were sacraficed during its formation.

 

Ever since I got my car(a week ago) I have been playing around with the Navigation system and I have found some interesting things. I don't know why but I decided to try the Menu button on that screen and found that. It appears that keeping the Menu button pressed within any option on the Diagnostics screen will give additional information. I don't know if this has been discovered already, but on the diagnostics screen, select the Version option, and keep the Menu button pressed and it comes up with a list of programs on the DVD(Boot file etc.) I believe this would be very useful for someone who wants to hack the system.

 

Has anyone tried to use the "Card Load" option that appears within the Version option on the Diagnostics screen? I pressed it without a card in there, and the navigation system froze with an error on the screen. Restarted the card and it was fine. I am curious if one could use a Compact Flash card to load programs into the Navigation system?? I am sure that's what it's there for. It would be nice if we can load a media player for DVD(It IS a Windows CE OS) Just some thoughts....

 

with the NAVI, all you have to do is hit the audio button. it shows it there.

 

The card load and CD load (err DVD load, or whatever that other option is) is for reloading the entire software image back into memory. When we get new software/updates for the system in a couple/few years, this is how they'll update the system.

As for the version list that displays, it is a useful FYI/diagnostic kinda thing... but the really useful guts are right on the DVD.

Nav rocks.

 

Could it be the way the fuel cap 'hangs' on the door?

 

I had a 91 Accord and I think the fuel filler door may have been plastic?

 

Excellent response Nuke you win.

Not sure why Honda abandoned plastic, but in this case I'm glad they did.

 

That's a feature from "Alpine". The factory systems in our Acura's and Hondas are Alpines. I know this because my 4runner has an aftermarket Alpine headunit and amps and speakers, that's a feature from Alpine. It's suppose to make your sound just "a little bit clearer". So far i have yet to notice the difference. But i think it's so that the processor inside the head unit can c oncentrate more on the music rather than having to process music and flash the little lights at the same itme.

 

The speakers are all Pioneer. Are you sure the head is Alpine?

 

yep, it is an alpine. if u do not believe us search for it. i think this has be discussed before. oh the wonderful speakers in our cars are clipped on rather than screwed on. But they still sound great

 

Here's one for everyone to know about...

We're all given a code for the security of our radio on a plastic card in our owner's manual. However, did you know that this code is also inside the car's passenger compartment.

I removed mine, but its purpose is to make the code easy for maintenance people to find when they do work on the car.

I'll give everyone a hint: Look in the area of the glove box!!

Problem is, it also makes theft of the radio (not that I could imagine anyone would want to steal it) very simple.

 

Come on. This can't be true! That would defeat the whole purpose of having this code. My dealer made such a big stink about not losing the code or else its a big problem etc, etc. Are you sure?

 

Is someone stealing the radio really going to take the time to seek out and write down this code? I don't know, I've never stolen a radio, but my guess is they'd be in too much of a hurry.