Originally Posted by Jay633

Hey every one, here is an interesting one for those techs out there.

I have a stock 2003 Honda Civic LX Automatic, bought new from the dealer. I had a remote starter installed by the dealer (Autostart AS-1424 with a PKH3 Transponder Bypass) when I bought the car new. To this day, no problems what so ever.

However, this past week I replaced the Starter Motor. In doing so, I disconnected the battery. After the installation was complete, I reconnected the battery, started the car with the key, and every thing worked like a charm… except the remote starter. Here is what it does:

Idle mode works fine (With the car running, I press the start button and remove the key, and can leave the vehicle running, and stop it with the remote). I can also re start the car with the remote starter shortly thereafter.

However, ether at the first start of the day, or if the car had been sitting for several hours, (Canada, average temperature of -15 Deg C. theses days) I will attempt a start with the remote, and it will turn the engine over, but wont start (3 consecutive programmed attempts). I had done this sitting in the car, watching the cluster to see if the green key flashes and it does NOT. (Figuring it’s not the Transponder bypass).

So, I thought it might be a problem with the “Multi-Speed Tach Learning”. So, as per the installation manual of the remote starter, I attempted a re-program with no avail. I am scratching my head with this one!

Does any one have any ideas why the remote starter won’t start the car ‘cold’?