How to Find a 2005 Honda Civic Radio Code

To get your 2005 Honda Civic radio code, look in the glove compartment or the owner’s manual. If it’s not there, you’ll need your VIN and radio serial number.
Written by Natalie Todoroff
Reviewed by Kathleen Flear
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Can’t find your 2005 Honda Civic radio code? First, check for it inside your glove compartment or your owner’s manual. If you can’t find it there, you’ll need to search for it using your VIN and radio serial number. 
If you’ve ever had to replace or disconnect your 2005
Honda Civic's battery
, you’ve probably been prompted to enter your car’s radio code once you start it back up. Without it, you’re in for some silent car rides—which is the last thing you want when you’re in bumper-to-bumper traffic or cruising down the highway on the road trip of a lifetime.  
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Why your 2005 Honda Civic needs a radio code 

With podcasts and bespoke daily Spotify playlists, you may be wondering if anyone even uses their car radios these days. But, it turns out that radios are one of the most commonly stolen vehicle components! That’s why the radio code is so important: it’s a security measure designed to help keep would-be thieves at bay. 
Whenever your Honda’s battery is disconnected or replaced, you’ll be prompted to enter your radio code the next time you turn your car on. Without the radio code, your car’s entire sound system is rendered useless—making it an undesirable score for a potential thief. 
However, if you don’t know your Honda Civic radio code, you might be the one stuck with a useless sound system. 

How to find your 2005 Honda Civic radio code 

Honda radio code retrieval could be as easy as everyone’s favorite tech solution: turning it off and back on again. Most of the time, if you press and hold your radio’s power button for two seconds, that’s all you need to do to reset the radio and get back to jamming out to your favorite stations. 
But, if that doesn’t do the trick, you may have to do a little digging. The five-digit radio code will be on a sticker either inside your glove box or your owner’s manual. The sticker should read “Anti-Theft Radio Code” and contain the code itself and the radio’s serial number.

How to look up your 2005 Honda Civic radio code 

If you’ve misplaced your owner’s manual or the sticker peeled off inside your glove compartment—don’t worry; there are still ways to get the code. You can find your 2005 Honda Civic’s radio code by VIN (
vehicle identification number
) and radio serial number
Thankfully, there are a couple of different places you can check for your 17-digit VIN. We’d recommend you start by looking at the base of the front windshield on the driver’s side. If it’s not stamped there, look at your insurance card, your vehicle’s
registration papers
, or a
Honda
financial services statement.
To retrieve your radio serial code, press and hold down on all six preset buttons at once and simultaneously turn your key to the ON position in the ignition. This may require an extra set of hands, so you may want to ask a friend for some help with it. Once you've pressed the buttons and turned on the ignition, the 10-digit serial number should pop up—and we’d recommend you grab your smartphone and snap a quick photo of it, so you don’t lose it. 
Now with both numbers, the VIN and the radio serial number, it’s time to actually find the number you’re searching for: the radio code. Here’s how to do it: 

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