Hi all.
The car is a 1996 Honda Civic Ex. t came with keyless entry, but the fob was lost years ago. Finanlly found it today, put a new battery in it, doesn't work. The tiny red light at the top comes on when I press a buttom.

I found the intructions that said to push the valet disarm or whatever button beween the tape/cd button and AM/FM button.
From what I gathered, after putting the key in II, holding the button, the locks should cycle, but they don't... It just site there, nothing happens. Power locks work fine..

Thoughts?

 

well for my 99 its
KEYLESS ENTRY PROGRAMMING
Have all remotes for the vehicle on hand.
Make sure all the doors and rear hatch/trunk are closed during programming.
Only need to use 1 remote to get into program mode but all remotes must be programmed during the same session.
Each step must be completed within 5 seconds.
1. Sit in the car with all doors/trunk tightly closed
2. Turn the key to the ON position, marked by “II” on the ignition bezel so the dash lights come on, then within 5 seconds press the “Lock” button on the remote for 1 second or so and release the button.
3. Turn the key to the OFF position, marked by “I” on the ignition bezel – dash lights go off.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 three more times (A total of 4 times) – each step must be done within 5 seconds of the previous step.
5. Upon the 4th turning of the key to “ON”, press the lock button on one remote, the locks will make a cycling sound (clunk), locks will NOT lock or unlock at this point, they will just make a noise. The system is now in programming mode. Do not turn key off.
6. Within 5 seconds of entering programming mode and within 5 seconds of each other, press the lock button ON EACH remote you are programming, for a second or so and release. This step needs to be completed within 10 seconds. Each time a remote button is pushed, the locks should cycle. Up to 3 remotes can be programmed.
7. Turn ignition completely off and remove the key. Step out of car and close door. The remotes should be programmed and should work. If you have a trunk/hatch release, the button for this feature needs to be held for a few seconds before the trunk/hatch will “pop”.

 

Thanks for the idea, but it didn't work.
I'm pretty sure the instructions to do it are:
Turn key to II
Press the valet button thingy
Hold it until the locks cycle (Which the ON'T do for me)
Press the lock or unlock bottun
Release valet button


But yeah, the locks don't cl=ycle to 'confirm its in pprogramming mode' Any thoughts?

 

well thats how i did my 99 maybe they changed the programing over the years... but it still took me about a dozen times to get mine programed.

 

I singed up just to figure this out! PLEASE HELP

I'm having the same problem and its driving me nuts, the exact same problem as described above, I have a 1997 honda civic si with power locks and stock radio and I can't figure out for the life of me how to get this to work!

Any help is appreciated! Feel free to email me at jacoblombardo@hotmail.com

Thanks