Door alarm

[czar3398]

I have searched and searched for a solution and reluctantly decided to start a thread. My 05 touring auto door alarm goes off when shifting out of park. Only way to get it to quit buzzing is to manually shut off automatic door switch. There are no dash lights showing a door being open. The alarm/buzzer is intermittent. I doesn't do it every trip. Opening and closing doors usually does not solve it. I looked for contacts to clean and I have found none. I saw some threads with people saying they took it to the dealer and got it fixed, with minimal explanation of what the dealer did. I am trying to avoid taking it to a dealer. I have searched the TSB's, searched the forums and any help is appreciated. I really thought there would be a TSB about this, many people have had this problem. The best i can gather from the threads that talk about problems similar to this is that the door might need adjusting. Any help is appreciated. If someone helps me solve this, I promise to come back on here with pictures and a good explanation of what solved this problem.

[JJSavv]

I too have an 05 Touring and the same alarm has begun! I have tried all the doors, and cannot get it off. I'll have to check to find the on/off switch you described. It drives me crazy...has anyone posted a fix elsewhere?

[czar3398]

This thread seems to talk about it some.

Buzzing noise from the passenger sliding door

I finally had to take mine into a dealer. After a couple of super cold days, the door would not function electronically at all. I Drive up to the dealer service entrance and the stupid thing opens right up. Luckily the alarm/buzz/tone/whatever was still going off. The service guy was able to look at it and witness the problem. When he drove it off to the garage to be looked at, it the alarm quit. They looked at it for two days while they fixed some other recall items on it. They never could get it to recreate the problem, they lubed everything. The door still does it almost all the time. During all this I showed the above thread to the service manager and told him, I'm not the only one with this problem. I begged him to call someone at Honda corporate. He called his regional service manager and he said no chance Honda was going to pay to have it fixed. Said too many miles and 2nd owner blah blah blah. This is a serious problem, there just are not enough people that have had the problem for a recall. Anything this unsafe on a large scale would get a recall. I explained to the guy that it is the "latch" that is not engaged. I explained to him that the door has popped open going down the road with my kids in it. He seemed concerned about it but the regional service guy didn't give a crap about it. They said they could replace the latch system for 800 bucks. I said no thanks, this is a serious problem you guys should fix. Whenever the alarm is going off i just turn the auto door switch off, electronically lock the doors, then i manually unlock my door walk around and try to open the bad door(to make sure it wont open up going down the road), then get back in and lock the doors. Its so much fun. My one year old daughter is on that side with the bad door so its worth it to me to make sure the door wont come open.

I think there is another thread somewhere that shows the latch problem in pictures. If I find it I will post it on here.

[czar3398]

I found the other thread I was talking about. I don't think the main problem is the same as ours. I would however, like to try what they do in this thread to see if it solves my problem. I bet there is a decent chance it would solve it. I'm just so unbelievably busy right now I have not had time to try it. I also found one more thread talking about our problem, no solutions as of yet though.

Latch repair thread
2005 Ody LS sliding door latch


Additional sliding door latch alarm thread
Sliding door problem - constant tone

[czar3398]

The other day the passenger sliding door was doing the usual constant tone problem. I usually just turn the auto door switch off and lock and make sure it is locked from the outside(so it wont open going down the road). This day I decided to mess with it. I pushed the auto close button a few times with no luck, then I had my wife open the passenger front door and pushed the auto passenger sliding door button and the door completely closed and did not have the tone. I guess the sliding door and the front door are not meshing together well. It has not had the tone since I did this. When it does it again( and I know it will), I will test this again and see if it stops the tone.

[William Wiles]

When researching the sliding door problems you have to separate the gen2 from the 05+ posts. Gen2 has contacts on the front edge of the doors to couple signals to the door. T don't have a diagram for the 05+ but would guess they have some sort of switches to control the door. Switches can get flaky and make/break due to temperature change and vibration. The easiest way I have found in 50 years of service is with an ohmmeter. Slowly closing/opening the switch and watch for it to make/break several times as it closes. You first need an OEM service manual for the van so you can determine what and where the switches are.There is no quick easy answer to the fix and takes time to diagnose.

[majormadmax]

OK, gotta revive this thread as our 2005 LX started having this problem this morning. It was pretty cold last night, and we're experiencing the same issue (side door alarm going on when they're closed) and using the lock-out button stops it. I've found several threads mentioning cleaning sensors with an eraser but I am not sure if that applies to our model Odyssey. If there is an easy solution I would like to try it before taking the van to a repair shop/dealer (it's out of warranty so I may just use a local garage that I trust).

Cheers! M2

[czar3398]

majormadmax, unfortunately I think the 05+ generation ody has no door contact sensors to clean. I don't think you can solve your problem that way. This link 2005 Ody LS sliding door latch is the starting point to solving your problems. I will say that I strongly disagree that it is a frozen pivot problem. I fixed the door once with the solution in the link and it was malfunctioning again within a month. I attempted the problem a second time and I think the following solved my problems. In that thread you will see pictures of the pivot cam and you will also see blue electronic switches. The blue electronic switches were the key to solving my problem. I bent the metal arms on the blue switches(gently) to where they would apply more force on the button inside those blue electronic switches. Be sure and clean everything very well and make sure the cams are working, but I believe the root problem lies in the blue switches not getting fully depressed. I did this about a year ago and have not had any problems since then. Let me know if this solves your problem because just cleaning and freeing the cams did not solve the problem for me.

[majormadmax]

Thanks Czar, I'll give that a try and let you know the results.

The wife called Honda today and they said there was no recall or TSB on such an issue, but if we wanted to bring it in they'd check it out (and charge us accordingly for the honor).

I will see if I can take a shot at this myself, if not I will pass it on to the garage I trust to work on all our vehicles.

Cheers! M2

[majormadmax]

Well. oddly enough the issue went away on its own!

It happened after one unusually cold night for southcentral Texas, but about a day or two later I just happened to flip the lock-out button off and no buzzer!

I suspect this may not be the end of this problem, but for the time being I don't see any reason to mess around with it until such time as it happens again. I'll keep everyone posted.

Cheers! M2

[rootpb]

My 05 Odyssey just started the same issue but the door won't open either. I went to pick up my child from preschool and the door wouldn't open. I just had him go through the right side door and then I crawled across to buckle him in. It seems to be stuck in lock mode and I can't even manually get it to unlock. The next day the buzzing started when I took it out of park. I don't know what to do. It was fine in the morning when I took him to school.

[ayates09]

I have just bought a 2000 Honda Odyssey and today when taking my daughter to dance class I was driving down the road and all of a sudden the door alarm started to go off. I pulled over opened the door and closed it, got back in and it was still doing it. While I was inside with dance class I looked out and my left side sliding door was wide open. I was wondering if anyone else has had the same issue and if you know how it can be fixed? thanks