2000 HONDA PASSPORT Owners Manual

Operatin
g th e Cassett e Playe r
The ignition switch must be in ACCESSORY or ON. Make sure
the tape opening on the cassette is
facing to the right, then insert the
cassette most of the way into theslot. The system will pull it in the
rest of the way, and begin to play.
The tape direction indicator will
light to show you which side of the cassette is playing. The
indicates the side you inserted
facing upward is now playing. If you want to play the other side, press the (preset 3) button.
If the cassette was recorded using
Dolby noise reduction, turn it on
by pressing the (preset 4)

button.

You can switch from the cassette
to the radio or CD changer by
pressing the FM, AM, or DISC
button. When you switch, the
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TAP
E DIRECTIO N
INDICATO R
TAP E DIRECTIO N
BUTTO N
DOLBY
BUTTO N TAP
E BUTTO N

cassette stops playing, but it does
not eject. To begin playing the cassette at the same point, press the
TAPE button.
When the system reaches the end
of the tape, it automatically
reverses direction and plays the other side. If you want to remove
the cassette from the drive, press
the EJECT button.
When you turn off the ignition
switch, the system stops the tape
but does not eject the cassette. It will begin to play when you turn
the ignition switch back on. To
eject the tape, even with the ignition switch off, press the
EJECT button.
Tap e Searc h Function s

With a cassette playing, you can
use the FF, REW, or APS function

to find a desired song or passage.

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FAS
T FORWARD /

REWIN D EJEC
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BUTTO N
AUTOMATI C
PROGRA M
SEARC H REPEA
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BUTTO N SKI
P
BUTTO N

FF/RE
W — Fast Forward and
Rewind move the tape rapidly.
Press and release the REW side of the TUNE bar to rewind, or the
FF side to fast forward. You will see REW or FF in the display.
Press the same side of the tune bar to return to PLAY mode.
If the system reaches the end of
the tape while in fast forward or
rewind, it automatically stops that function, reverses direction, and
begins to play.
AP S — The Automatic Program
Search (APS) function allows you
to find the beginning of a song or passage. Use the (preset 1) or
(preset 2) button to activate
APS.
For example, the first song on the
cassette is playing, and you want to listen to the third song. Press twice; you will see FF and 2 in
the display. The system will fast
forward the tape to the beginning of
the third song, then return to PLAY

mode.

To return to the beginning of the current song or passage, press
once. To return to the beginning of

the previous song, press
twice.
If the system reaches the end of
the tape before finding the
selected song or passage, it
reverses direction and returns to
PLAY mode.
To cancel APS before it finds the desired song, press the or
button again.
REPEA
T — The Repeat function
continuously repeats the current song or passage. Press the RPT
(preset 5) button to activate it. You will see RPT in the display.
When the system reaches the end
of the current song or passage, it
automatically goes into rewind.
When it gets to the beginning of
the same song or passage, the
system returns to PLAY mode.
This continues until you
deactivate Repeat by pressing the
RPT button again.
SKI P — The SKIP function fast
forwards over areas of blank tape.
Press the SKIP (preset 6) button
to activate it. You will see SKIP in the display. After the system
finds approximately 15 seconds of
blank tape, it goes into fast
forward. When it senses the
beginning of the next song or
passage, or reaches the end of the tape, it returns to PLAY mode.
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The APS, Repeat, and Skip
functions use silent periods on the
tape to find the end of a song or
passage. These features may not work to your satisfaction if thereis almost no gap betweenselections, a high noise level
between selections, or a silent
period in the middle of a
selection.

Carin g fo r th e Cassett e Playe r

The cassette player picks up dirt
and oxides from the tape. This
contamination builds up over time
and causes the sound quality to
degrade. To prevent this, you should clean the player after every
30 hours of use. Your dealer has a
cleaning kit available.
If you do not clean the cassette
player regularly, it may eventually become impossible to remove the contamination with a normal
cleaning kit.
Use 100-minute or shorter
cassettes. Cassettes longer than
that use thinner tape that may
break or jam the drive.
Look at a cassette before youinsert it. If the tape is loose,
tighten it by turning one of the
hubs with a pencil or your finger. If the label is peeling off, removeit from the cassette or it could
cause the cassette to jam in the
player. Never try to insert a
warped or damaged cassette in the

player.

The player automatically ejects
cassettes that do not play properly. If it ejects a cassette before it
begins to play, it is probably defective and should not be inserted again. You may have a
cassette suddenly stop playing,
reverse directions once or twice, and then eject. This is normally an
indication the tape is wound
unevenly. It should play after the
tape is manually rewound.
When they are not in use, store cassettes in their cases to protect
them from dust and moisture.
Never place cassettes where they
will be exposed to direct sunlight,
high heat, or high humidity. If a
cassette is exposed to extreme
heat or cold, let it reach a
moderate temperature before inserting it in the player.
Never try to insert foreign objects
into the cassette player.
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Operatin
g th e C D Change r
To operate the CD changer, the
ignition switch must be in
ACCESSORY or ON.

Loading CDs in the Changer
To load a CD in the changer, pressthe LOAD button. The numbered
light for the first empty slot in the
changer will begin flashing in the
upper right corner of the display.
When you see LOAD in the display, insert the CD part wayinto the slot, the drive will pull it
in the rest of the way. The
numbered light will stop flashing, and remain lit as a reminder that a
CD is loaded in that position. The
system will begin playing the first
track on that CD.

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SELECTO RC
D BUTTO N SOUN
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RETRIEVA L
SYSTE M

LOA
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BUTTO NDIS
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SELECTO R
CD SLO T
DISC
INDICATOR S

Repeat this procedure to load CDs
in the remaining positions in the

changer.

To load more than one CD in a single operation, press and hold
the LOAD button until you hear a
beep. Load the first CD as
described above. After the first CD loads, the light for the next
open position will begin blinking.
Insert the next CD part way into
the slot. Continue this procedure
until all six slots are loaded. If
you do not want to load CDs intoall six positions, press the LOAD
button again after the last CD hasloaded. That CD will begin
playing.
Playing CDs Press the DISC button to switch tothe CD changer. The CD that is
currently loaded will begin playing. The disc and track
numbers are shown in the display.
To select a different disc, press the TUNE/DISC button: to select
the next disc, or to select the
previous disc.
To change tracks, press and release the (preset 2) button to
advance one track at a time, or the (preset 1) button to return to
the beginning of the current track. Press again to select the
previous track.
To move rapidly within a track,
press and hold the button to
move forward, or the button
to move backward. Release the
button when the system reaches the point you want.
You can switch to the radio or the
cassette player by pressing the
FM, AM, or TAPE button. To switch back to the CD changer,
press the DISC button. The CD will begin playing where it left
off.
To remove a CD from the changer, select the CD with the
TUNE/DISC button, then press and release the EJECT button
next to the slot.
To remove all the CDs from the changer, press and hold the
EJECT button until you hear a
beep. The CDs will eject in order.
Soun d Retrieva l Syste m — The
Sound Retrieval System function
adds richness to the sound of the
CDs. To activate it, press the button. This turns on the first
level of sound expansion. Press the button a second time to take it
to the second level. Press the
button again to turn off the

feature.

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SCA
N — Use the SEEK/SCAN
button to sample the tracks on a disc, or to sample all the discs in
the changer.
To sample the tracks on the CD currently loaded, press and release
the SEEK/SCAN button. You willsee SCAN in the display. The
system will play the first track on
the disc for approximately ten seconds. If you do nothing, it will
select the second track and play
that for ten seconds. When it
plays a track that you want to continue listening to, press the
SEEK/SCAN button again.
To sample the discs, press and hold the SEEK/SCAN button until
you hear a beep. You will see
D-SCAN in the display. Thesystem loads the next disc in the
changer, and plays the first track
on that disc for approximately
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BUTTO N
SCA N
BUTTO N
RANDO M
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REPEA
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BUTTO N

ten seconds. If you do nothing, it
will load the second disc and play
the first track for ten seconds.
When it plays a disc that you want to continue listening to, pressSEEK/SCAN again.
REPEA T — Use the RPT (preset
5) button to continuously play the
current track or disc.
To keep repeating the current
track, press and release the RPT
button. You will see RPT in the
display. The system will
continuously replay the current track. Press the RPT button again
to turn it off.
To repeat the current disc, press and hold the RPT button until you
hear a beep. You will see D-RPT in the display. The system plays
through the disc currently loaded.

At the end of the disc, instead of
loading the next disc in the

changer, it will return to the

beginning of the current disc.

Press the RPT button again to turn
it off.
RANDO M — Use the RAND
(preset 6) button to randomly
play, or "shuffle" the tracks on the disc or discs in the changer. Withthis activated, the system plays
the tracks in random order, rather
than in the order they are recorded
on the CD or CDs.
To shuffle the tracks on the CD
currently loaded, press and release the RAND button. You will see
RAND in the display. The system
plays the tracks on the current disc in random order. When all
the tracks have been played, it
will load the next CD and play
those tracks in random order. To
turn off random play, press the
RAND button again.
To include all the loaded CDs in the random selection, press and
hold RAND until you hear a beep.
You will see D-RAND in the
display. With this activated, the system randomly selects what
track to play next from all the
CDs in the changer. After playing
a track, it may select another track
on that same disc, or it may load a
different CD and play a track on it. This continues until you turn
off random play by pressing the
RAND button again.
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