Is There A Mechanic In The House?

[Carbo]

'97 Honda Civic EX. Purchased new back in the day. I've had her almost 11 years now and nothing but routine maintenance along the way. Only 62K miles. Overall, a very satisfied Honda customer here. Last night, though, things turned dark and ugly.
The car is parked in my garage for the night and I'm ready to hit the sack. Go into the garage and I notice the car is freaking out. The dome light is flashing. . .the door locks are constantly locking and unlocking themselves. If I opened any of the doors it would set off the alarm. Closing the door and the alarm shuts down. But still, the flashing dome light and the crazed door locks are continuing. The remote control key fob was completely non functional. All I could think of doing was to disconnect the battery to shut her down. Which I did and all is well. Until, that is, I reconnect the juice and see what happens. I just don't want to deal with this at 6:00AM.
Any ideas before I bring her in to Honda and get whacked?

 

[akshatp]

This belongs in "the Garage" forum

 

[Schfifty Five]

Wow, that would freak me out.

It's middle of the night. You wake up hearing some odd noises downstairs. You hear that the noises are coming from the garage. You take a peek in the garage and see your car going googoogaga. Freaky lol.

 

[Carbo]

Just reconnected the battery terminal and now everything is functioning normally. Weird stuff.

 

[SearchMaster]

You don't call her "Christine" perchance, do you?

 

[LTC8K6]

I've heard of this before. It's usually interference from a nearby transmitter mimicking your remote transmitter, iirc.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Yup, something went haywire in the remote locking system. If it happens again you'll probably need to replace the central locking computer/receiver, but as LTC8K6 mentioned, it could just have been random interference from another RF source. I remember when I was growing up our garage door started freaking out. Turns out that a construction crew's walkie-talkies were using the same frequency.

ZV

 

[zoiks]

Same thing happened to my Mazda6. I had just arrived at Monterey about 70miles from where I live and had unloaded my kayak from the roof when it happened. In my case however the horn would not stop honking. The fob was useless and nothing else really worked. I ended up taking the horn relay out and that worked until I had the alarm changed at a car stereo ship.