Hi,

I have a 2003 CL-S and I'm having trouble in that the steering wheel mounted volume control often changes the station/track/FF when I try to increase volume. My dealer said it's a known bug and tried a solution they know but it actually got worse! Does anyone know the fix for this

Thanks,
John

 

I think one of the resistors in your control module went bad. You need to know the original resistance value then check to find out what goes wrong. The HELM has the value.
There is only 1 wire from the control module to the HU. Depends on the button that you press, a certain resistance will be set between ground and HU's sensing input, the HU's logic control will then react accordingly. If one of the resistors go out, the resistance changed and the HU's will react differently.

To control my DVD player, I use the Peripheral unit and add 3 more buttons (and 3 more resistors). Now my HU will increase the volume when I press arrow-down button, next track for the arrow-up key, nothing for aud/channel button, vol up for 1 of my added-on buttons and more but I dont remember right now.

 

Thanks for the info. I'll share it with my dealer.

 

the problem is the ground through the stering wheel dosent make full contact you have to dimple the copper shield behind the cable reel. If the dealer didn't fix the problem bring it back they should fix it. I work for acura. You might have a problem with the swicth it self

 

i have the same exact problem , and sometimes it wont do anything at all , i brougt it to the dealer a while ago but they said they couldnt make it happen so i was beat

tommyo : what exactly should i say when i go to the dealer about this ? thanks in advance

 

My dealer tried the dimpling fix but it's worse now.

 

how come out steering wheel controls have volume and also u can switch to your pre selected stations, but u cant use a seek feature to go through all the stations on the radio.

 

To: jfdaley

Did this ever get resolved? I have the same issue and would like to get it fixed. I was thinking of trying the dimping of the copper shield described in Acura Service Bullietin 03-015 if that eventually fixed it for you.

Thanks.