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Anyone know where this annoying little buzzer is? I want to remove it if it isn't the same one used for lights on. If it is tied in, which inputs would I need to remove to shut the thing off when I use my e-brake? It may sound stupid for my wanting to remove it but its an annoyance I don't care to have.

It is built into the MICU under the dash, a easy way but you will lose indication of E-Brake, is to disconnect the switch attached to the handle under the cup holders.

I knew there was something else tied to it. Fucking lame. There's gotta be another way around it to avoid losing the brake indicator in the cluster even if I have to desolder something and pull shit apart and cut myself several times in the process.

Nothing I know of, the buzzer is in the MICU and is tied to the processor in it which is then tied to the CAN bus which feeds data to the cluster, to kill one , you kill both since both are signaled from the same line.

Now that puts a damper on my day. Fuck.

Sorry dude, maybe what you could do is wire a different light and add it to the dash to replace the e-brake warning light. Also disconnectng the ebrake switch from the MICU will NOT affect the cluster lights function as far as fluid level warning indication, just ebrake.

Oh really? I thought it killed the light all together. Now I'm in a better mood. I think I might come up with the light workaround for the e-brake just so the light is still there just without the annoying beep.

I don't think my coupe beeps for the e brake is it year, transmission or trim leval specific?

Z, just curious, why do you want to remove the beeping function?

mine has never beeped....? so I have no idea what this thread is about..?

it should if the e-brake is engaged while trying to drive.

DING DING DING. Dave hit it on the head. I want to remove it because its fucking annoying. Sometimes while slowing down near cops, I'd rather not let them see my brake lights otherwise it sends a nice little red flag. Slowing down with the e-brake ever so slightly doesn't do that.

are you an auto?

Im sure that'll screw something up Z, esp at hwy speeds. Why not splice some wires, run a switch, flip it so it turns your brake lights off, hit the brakes and no lighty lighty and your good. Not like I've done this before, but I know it works.

*edit* Yeah David, Z has a manual....why not just throw it down a gear or two, better deceleration than the e-brake!!  

I know what it is. I'm telling you it'd never gone off in my coupe.. I'm auto.  i do exactly what Z was describing, use it to slow down slightly at night when I see a cop just in case I'm over the speed limit by a few.. but there's never been any beeping or tone.

I know what you mean Beau, my coupe doesnt make any noise but my sedan does. Think it's only in sedans.

never heard this alarm before but then again i definitely prefer a downshift over a highway e-brake.  no offence Z but this kinda sounds silly if you're using it that much to allude the highway cops for it to be a nuisance.

Its not the highway cops that bother me. The limit is 55 but they don't bother you unless you're over 75. Weird, I know. Its the one main road coming down to my house where there's plenty of little nooks they can hide in. I don't do it often at all, its just when I do that it annoys me.

And Jeremy, that's way more than I want to do. I'm already going to hack enough when I throw a set of HIDs into my reverse lights for those pesky tailgaters and asshats that don't turn off their high beams.

I do the same thing in my Sedan and I've never heard a beeping.  I never let the button go while doing it, so maybe that's the difference?

I do the same. I never let go of the button either but the fucking thing beeps at me when I do it. Could it be an 05 sedan thing? I don't know.

Mine beeps too. Maybe you're right, Z.

That'd be a first.

Mine beeps if you lift up the handbrake while moving.

Might be a feature Honda started implementing in the 05 model year. I still want to remove it though.

my 04 accord does that. I think it comes standard. Even my 06 does that but then I stall if I have ebrake on. lol

My 03 does not I just tried it. Maybe to get the result you want you should research swapping some parts.

Question is, what parts? And would they be compatible?

Honda's are like lego's anything can be done

This is true. Like Skippy said once, "Don't like the engine you have? Pull it out and throw in another one."

Unless you have a k24a8 then your royally screwed when it comes to KPro :D.

Anyways. I'm still not sure why your going to this much trouble to get rid of that, I think it's a useful feature if someone else drives your car and they forget to put down the ebrake.

But I hope you find the solution your looking for. Hopefully you can just swap to an 03 part of some sort or just yank it out.

Not entirely true, then you just rip out the ECU ,engine  wire harness and cluster and replace them with RSX-S parts:P

I don't have that buzzing feature in my car.  I guess it wasn't available on the 03's.  Either way, it seems like a awful lot of work for such a small result.  I would downshift to slow down on the freeway, but my exhaust gives that away very quickly.  A sure fire method to not get pulled over for speeding is to go the speed limit.

Couldn't have said it better myself Tim

dork

No one else really will unless I'm in the car with them. Not even my wife wants to drive it so I'm not worried about that.


As for doing the speed limit, I usually go a bit over because I'm used to 65-70mph speed limits on the highways back home. I don't understand this 55 shit that NY has. Most people don't follow it. Hell, some of the damn roads out here don't even have speed limit signs posted so I really have no fucking clue as to what the limit actually is. Yes its a lot of work but I'm a stubborn bastard. Once something gets into my head, I usually see it through. I find the beeping annoying and want it gone. This is the first car I've owned that beeps at you if you have the e-brake slightly engaged. Maybe Honda put it there because we as a people have inherently gotten stupider and they had to add that feature to remind people to put their e-brake down. Sorry, went on a rant there.

Dude, it's just a safety feature such as the beeping to put your seatbelt on.

Yes but I find it to be annoying.