Hey, you're in Mass.? Me too, in Malden. Been installing Audiovox for almost ten years now.
Agreed, the manuals with their product are horrendous...basically one step above the eBay stuff from China. A half-blind monkey would have better writing skills. They really should be ashamed.
Anyway, what lectricguy said is totally right. Does your Civic have a factory alarm?
Here you go:
Red and RED / white to Honda constant-white at steering column
Yellow to yellow Honda starter
Blue to blue Honda ignition
Purple to orange Honda accessory
Green........do you want the radio to come on with remote start? I prefer not. You can either leave the green taped off, or, if radio is desired, connect to Honda red accessory and program for "as accessory" in menu.
Either white to Honda thin blue negative parking light wire in column
Second white wire to ground, black wire to ground
BROWN / black to light green brake wire at fuse box. (or get at brake pedal if you want, but be careful wire can't get caught up in pedal or your feet.)
BLACK/ blue "pulse before start" goes straight to unlock wire if no factory alarm. If you have factory alarm, split it with two diodes.....one to factory alarm disarm, other to unlock wire.
BLACK / YELLOW "pulse during start" to lock wire in car
The driver's kick panel is easy to remove but difficult to reinstall. Avoid removing it if possible, and it doesn't help much anyway. The wires that go into the driver's door are right above the kick panel, and your lock/unlock/disarm wires are in one of those two bundles going into the door.
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The small yellow two-pin connector gives you constant power on the red wire, and ground-when-running (with some options in programming too) from the black wire.
Connect the red to constant input on the PKH34, and black to the ground-when-running input on PKH34.
Splice the PKH34 ground wire to the thick Audiovox black as part of your bench prep....or if you want you could run it up to the column and ground it at the Honda immobilizer plug.
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Yes, you can use light blue Ignition 3 to a relay for anti-grind.
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PROGRAMMING:
Change the runtime to at least 15 minutes---I set all mine for 20.
Change from Tach to Voltage, and change Voltage level to the non-default option.
At least that's how I do all of them; the Crank Averaging feature works great.
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Operation:
Press button on remote twice to activate remote start. (Or push and hold for 1 second if you re-programmed in the menu for single press.)
Parking lights will flash, car will unlock because of the BLACK/ blue wire.
As car attempts to start, the BLACK / YELLOW will relock it.
Wait ten seconds for the parking lights to come on; this means the voltage-sensing circuit is satisfied and that the remote starter will keep the car on.
Press and HOLD the remote and it will unlock the doors.
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NOTES:
Yes, it's incredibly stupid that the unit unnecessarily cycles your doorlocks. But what can you do?
When the remote starter is off, pushing and holding the button will activate the car finder feature and activate the parking lights. It will NOT unlock the doors if the remote starter isn't activated.
When you go to test it and play around, keep in mind that if you're in voltage sensing, you can't use the remote to unlock the doors until after the parking lights come back on. If you try too early, you'll just activate the car finder.
The push-and-hold on the remote takes about four seconds to unlock the doors. I've seen customers get impatient, release the button, and try again......and then what happens is now you've pushed the button twice, and the car shuts back off. So, again, just push, HOLD, and WAIT---the doors will eventually unlock.
When you turn the ignition on, the blue LEDs on the antenna will make some double flashes. This indicates that two remotes are programmed to the system. If you program more remotes (up to four), you'll get more flashes.
If you don't like that, you can unplug the LED at the brain. However, you'll then lose confirmation of when the unit is in/out of "service mode," which disables the remote starter for when you plan to do work underhood.