Your Honda Smart Key allows you to start your 2018 Plus Honda Goldwing. It also allows you to open your saddlebags and your trunk. But what if the battery dies inside the smart key or for some other reason it's damaged or fails to operate? Today we're going to show you how you can start your Goldwing without the smart key. This video is sponsored by the 2018 Plus Honda Goldwing Maintenance Video Series from Kruzman's Garage. Over 70 videos showing you how you can save more than a thousand dollars a year on dealer labor charges just by doing your own maintenance. Check them out today at kruzman's garage.com. This video will show you how you can start your Honda Goldwing without the Honda Smart Key. You still have to have your left and right saddlebags open to perform the emergency start-up procedure. You also cannot have a functioning smart key in the area of the motorcycle. The first step is to remove this small black plastic panel that covers a lock which will allow us to open the left saddlebag. I'm going to use this small flat-head screwdriver that's built into my Swiss Army knife to lift up one edge of this plastic panel. Now you want to be careful not to scratch anything. In fact, I'll put a link in the description of this video to this Swiss Army knife. It really is a great tool to have with you. But basically you get it between the tail light lens and the panel and you just carefully lift up and you can pry out the first couple of little plastic tabs that hold this panel in place. Here you can see I've been able to get just a couple of those tabs to release. And once you do that you can simply grab this panel with your fingers and just kind of pry it out and pop it off. Once that little panel is removed you can see the lock here and will use our emergency key to open the left saddlebag. Now the emergency key is normally stored in the end of your Honda Smart Key. You can see the edge of it there. There's a small button on the side and when you press that button it will release that key. Now if you're not holding your finger over that key it'll just fly off into space. So be careful when you pop this out. The key also goes back into the Smart Key. Only one direction as you can see here it won't go in. You have to turn it the right way and it just is kind of spring loaded. You hold your finger over the key while you press on that little release button. You can keep it from flying out into outer space. Now you can use your emergency key to unlock the left saddlebag. You may need to pull on it to get it to open. And once the left saddlebag is open if you look at the very top toward the rear you'll find this little release for the right saddlebag. And if you pull on that cable your right saddlebag door will also open and then you can replace that little cable on its post as I am here. Your Honda Goldwing is actually pretty intelligent. It knows if the saddlebag doors are open and no smart key is present. So now we're going to use the Start button and the button on your pocket door to enter a sequence of numbers to help it unlock the emergency start procedure. Every Honda Goldwing Smart Key comes with an emergency code tag like the one shown here. We're going to use the number just above the barcode and enter that into the Goldwing system so that we can start the motorcycle. It's a good idea to take a photograph of this tag and keep it on your smartphone. We're going to enter each number of that code using the pocket door button. We'll press this button however many times we need to to enter the appropriate number. For example if we want to enter the number 4 we'll press the door button four times. Then to set that number in the system we'll press the Start button. Once we've set that number in the system we'll repeat the same process for every number in the code. To begin the emergency start-up procedure press and hold the Start button for four seconds until you hear a beep. You now have about 20 seconds to begin entering the first number on the code. In our case it's a one. So after pressing the pocket door button once I'll press the Start button. The motorcycle will beep one time after each successful entry. The second number in my code is four so I'll press the pocket door button four times then press the Start button again. You'll notice I've blurred out many of the numbers on my code because I don't want to make it public. But I'm entering those other three numbers and when I get to the zero I'll show you how we enter a zero in the system. After entering this fifth number I need to enter a zero. I simply press the Start button again with no presses on the pocket door to enter a zero. After you enter the last number in the code successfully and press the Start button your electrical system should turn on and you can now start the motorcycle. If you make a mistake during the code entry simply wait 20 seconds you'll hear a beep and the system will reset itself so you can start over. For more information refer to page 185 of your Honda Goldwing owners manual. If you liked this video please give it a thumbs up. If you enjoyed this video please subscribe to my channel.