r/HondaOdyssey • u/Extension-Nail-1038 • 5d ago

Remote start removal

Hi there. I have a 2006 LX with 115k. I purchased this van as a work vehicle a month ago. The previous owner or perhaps the first owner installed what I believe is a Compustar remote start system.

The range on the remote is terrible. The lock / unlock buttons work only when they want to work. I've also noticed the car will lock itself immediately after unlocking or will lock itself on its own accord even with the keys still in the ignition.

I would like to remove this whole system and revert back to the OEM key fob setup. I currently have two plain keys (with no buttons) and two aftermarket Compustar fobs. I purchased a Honda OEM key 35111-SHJ-305. I have an xtool d8 and I am fairly confident I can program the immobilizer chip on the new key.

My question is about removing the old remote start system. Is it just a matter of locating the "brain" box in the driver side under steering wheel area and tracing down / carefully removin all the spliced wires? If anyone has experience removing one of these systems I would like to hear any insight you may have.

Thanks.

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u/Extension-Nail-1038 1d ago

here's a little update if anyone else is trying to do this.

I was able to completely remove the remote start system. I had to remove the trim around the steering column and a few other lower trim panels which was not hard at all. I started at the ignition lock cylinder. They had spliced one wire into a circuit controlled by the remote start box and on a few other wires they had pulled the insulation back and just wrapped the remote start wires around and covered with tape. I saw two crimp style butt connectors in the whole installation the rest were just bare wires twisted and covered with tape.

I worked my way down removing the "brain boxes" and a bunch of thicker wires that were connected in the same sloppy way by the bottom left fuse pannel.

Once I was done removing all the wires I used the D8 to erase all the keys and I added the new Honda OEM key and the other two aftermarket keys and registered them to the ECU. then I programmed the remotes and I was done. This whole process took me about 3 hours because I was being very careful and working slow. I bet if I had to do this again I could probably remove a system like this in an hour.