Honda CRV + EVO-ONE troubleshooting

Question

2014 Honda CR-V + THAR-ONE-HON-2 + EVO-ONE

Having some strange issues with this car.  Hooked up the wiring, bypass programs OK, and the RF kit worked fine for the first 30 minutes.  (DEI SmartStart)

 

Now it seems like there is no communication between the Evo-one and the car.  Engine running, no yellow light on Evo-one.  No RF kit will program any more.  I'm using the harness so it's pretty much plug and play.  Bypass programming works fine still.  

 

Scratching my head on this.  I even tried a 2nd Evo-one but the same problem presents itself now (bypass programs ok, but there seems to be no car communication). Any ideas?

Answer 1

Problem Solved.  I used a new THAR-HON-B1 harness and everything works flawlessly. Customer drove away happy.  The first harness must have a loose wire or cold solder joint somewhere.

Comments

Awesome glad it worked out! I wish I had a dealer closer. Must be nice to have everything in stock! Did you by chance hook up rear defrost? I never got an answer back on that question from fortin. I was wondering which wire from the revo is (-) and operated by aux 1 ? I'm guessing it's yellow/black?

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Never tried it to be honest, but with the Evo-One it looks like you can set Temperature Option 39 to enable Aux 1 (in this case wired to your rear defrost pin).  That way the customer has automatic defrost at low temps, no matter which RF kit you use.

 

I'm *really* new to the Evo-One so that's just my guess from glancing at the manual. :)

Answer 2

 Have you tried disconnecting the rf kit and trying 3x lock to see if that works? Not sure if this will help or not but someone else had a smart start issue

 

"Problem solved.  It looks like your EVO-ONE SmartStart RF kit guide is in error.  If you modify a Fortin harness then you are left with a black plug that goes into the black datalink port of the EVO-ONE (it's the only jack that will fit).

 

So I took a connector from my FT-D100 data cable, plugged it into the small blue jack on the EVO-ONE, and bingo, the SmartStart worked perfectly..."

 

Comments

Thanks Kevin, the post you are referring to is mine. 

I have an EVO-One in my truck so I can confirm my RF kits are working just fine, by testing them in the truck.  I think there is some issue between the EVO-One and the CRV on this install. 

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Gotcha. I've had good luck in our 2014 crv so far using lock unlock lock on the factory fob as well as from the revo start revo-4 RF KIT. have you tried the master reset ? Then try the evo without the rf kit and see if it functions.. Other than that hopefully someone from fortin will respond. Good luck

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Master reset done, no change.  It's strange because everything was working fine for a little while.  Only thing I can think of is a harness wire came loose when I put the dash back together again?  EVO-One now acting like it can't see the car (except programming bypass, that works).

I have the Revo-4 too among others. Tests fine in my truck with Evo-One but fails when connected to the Evo-One in the CRV.  So that's why I'm not blaming the RF kits

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I'm curious to see what you come up with. Sounds like a harness connection like you said.  Thankfully the crv has a small number of connections. Time to check pins and connectors. Any lights on the EVO when you press the key fob or turn the ignition?

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Thanks for your advice -- turns out the harness had a bad connection somewhere.  New harness did the trick!  I wish anti-grind was possible but other than that, everything is perfect now.

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I know this post is a month old, but.... Did someone say anti-grind?

Option 32-4 in the remote starter options will set the dark blue wire from the 20-pin as a starter-kill output should also work as an anti-grind output (obviously need to add a relay here though)