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Old 12-12-2013, 04:36 PM
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2014 RDX opens windows by itself

This is the second time my RDX has done this, I park it and lock it. And later go out and it's opened all the windows and the sunroof half way. (the windows are closed when I leave it, raining today) Anyone else ever experience this?
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Do you ever hold the unlock button down? This will cause this.
Old 12-12-2013, 05:24 PM
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Cool

This has happened to me a few times, usually when my car is in the garage. I normally keep my key fob in a front pocket. I'm fairly certain that something like my wallet or a key gets into the "right" position and holds down the unlock button long enough to open the windows and sunroof. I just ordered a rubber fob cover, hoping that it provides enough extra space to prevent the button being held down.

If that doesn't work, then I may have to put a keychain on a belt loop...
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Old 12-12-2013, 07:08 PM
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Thanks, it must have happened in my pocket, my office faces the street and my car is literally 8 ft from my desk.
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Originally Posted by Al Dente
This has happened to me a few times, usually when my car is in the garage. I normally keep my key fob in a front pocket. I'm fairly certain that something like my wallet or a key gets into the "right" position and holds down the unlock button long enough to open the windows and sunroof. I just ordered a rubber fob cover, hoping that it provides enough extra space to prevent the button being held down.

If that doesn't work, then I may have to put a keychain on a belt loop...
Cool. Now you know on a hot day you can open up all your windows/sunroof on the way out to your car and have it ventilated out a little bit for the drive home!
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Originally Posted by BLEXV6
Do you ever hold the unlock button down? This will cause this.
what he said, this is a feature that they have had since 2004 TL. Nice to have on a hot day and you want to let some of the heat out of the car...
Old 12-13-2013, 04:00 PM
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What a timely thread. My RDX windows vented while washing the car in my driveway today. Lucky for me, I noticed it in time to avert disaster. Imagine that happening with your car going thru the automated car wash!
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lol. I still remember the time I worked on something like the 4th story of a building and looked out and saw what appeared to be an open sunroof and windows on my brand spankin' new TL (I had only owned it for a couple of weeks, I think). It had just rained. I almost jumped out the window to end it all. I decided to go down and check it out thinking I'd find an aquarium in the car. I found a dry car. Apparently I had accidentally rolled the windows down (how, I don't know) after the rain had stopped. My guess is I accidentally held the door unlock button down a bit too long somewhere or I sat down and it got depressed too long... over 10 years later, she's still with me.
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I just got the fob cover today. Time will tell if it helps. A few days ago (before the cover arrived) the windows opened while the car was in the driveway, and it was snowing. Fortunately I found this out fairly soon when I went to move the car but still had to wipe out a little snow off the seats.
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This is on page 117 of the online manual: http://owners.acura.com/vehicles/inf...14/RDX/manuals

And it doesn't appear to be customizable (p.90). It's not on the list of customizable features.

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This is really odd since you would have had to accidentally depress the button on the fob once, then a second time within 10 seconds and hold it down, all while within range of the car. Seems like that would be pretty hard to do.
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Originally Posted by Rocket_man
This is really odd since you would have had to accidentally depress the button on the fob once, then a second time within 10 seconds and hold it down, all while within range of the car. Seems like that would be pretty hard to do.
My previous vehicle had a factory remote start. To activate, you pressed the lock button 3 times... but it was picky, you couldn't press the buttons too fast or too slow. Anyway, it accidentally started on me a few times for the same reasons listed above, i.e. keys in pocket. I also figured this was 'hard to do' but hey it happens.
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Originally Posted by Al Dente
I just got the fob cover today. Time will tell if it helps...
OK, the results are in: It happened again yesterday, first time (in about a month) since having the fob cover. At least the RDX was in the garage. I think that the cover "may" cut down on the frequency of occurrences but it isn't a cure all.
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