Hi.

I'm trying to install a Jensen CD2620 radio into my 1995 Honda Civic LX. I've figured out the first few wires, like the speakers and the ground, but now I'm left with the power -related wires and I'm not sure what to do. My car supposedly a 3 different power wires, a tuning power wire, an ACC wire, and a keep-lights-on wire, but my radio only has 1 power-related wire and a fuse wire.

If you guys could help me figure out which remaining wires connect to which wires, I would be so appreciative.

I scanned these two pages of my manuals in case this helps.

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Please help... not having a radio is killing me.

EDIT: I want to apologize to "ablack934doorcivic", who sent me an instant message over the forums on 9/02 at 6:51pm, which I didn't even recieve until 9/04 at 1:23am. I blame the forum's Trial access.


Modified by teferi at 1:24 AM 9/4/2006

 

y didnt u just buy the harness then it would have been a piece of cake

 

I bought this car used, and the people who initially installed the radio were a bunch of idiots and cut the adapters on both ends and just hand spliced the wires together. When i took the car in to get a antenna adapter so that the honda's antenna would work with the radio, the ******* wires all came undone so I have to rewire them all.

 

I would suggest going to a junk yard and cut the plugs u need then crimp them back on and then go buy the harness and your done and everything is rt

 

what part am i missing? I'm not sure what a harness or plugs are, because the radio worked fine before the wires came undone, so there has to be some combination of wires that I already have that will make it operational again... at least temporarily.

 

get a light tester and with the key off test each wire, when the light tester glows thats the constant power then turn your ignition to the on position and find the other power wire and the speaker wires are easy they should b the same color except 1 prolly has a stripe on it

 

I posted the manual pages showing which wires are which.


I know which one is the constant power, but i have no idea where to plug that in to the radio, seeing as how the radio only has ONE power wire. And what connects to the +12V fuse wire?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by teferi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what part am i missing? I'm not sure what a harness or plugs are, because the radio worked fine before the wires came undone, so there has to be some combination of wires that I already have that will make it operational again... at least temporarily.</TD></TR></TABLE>and like I said before if u go to the junk yard u will see what wires go where when u get the plugs, I highly advise u do this cause it will b rt and it will save u from poping fuses, but try what I said above for now until u get time to go to the junk yard becarefull though if u touch power to ground by accident it will blow the fuse so buy some just incase

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by teferi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I posted the manual pages showing which wires are which.


I know which one is the constant power, but i have no idea where to plug that in to the radio, seeing as how the radio only has ONE power wire. And what connects to the +12V fuse wire?</TD></TR></TABLE>whats the colors on the radio dont tell me the speakerwire colors just the rest of them

 

the radio should have 2 power wires if not it wouldnt hold memory or it wouldnt turn off

 

BTW the fuse wire is a power wire so u do have 2

 

there should be a yellow wire on the headunit (serves as the memory) and the red wire is the main power wire. the best thing to do as someone else posted is to go to a junkyard and get the proper harness... if the stock radio is still in the car... take it out and there SHOULD be a couple plugs for the radio wire, take those plugs, and then buy a wiring harness from your circuit city, best buy, etc... and then its just a matter of connecting the same color wires up. granted it will cost more money, not much though, but at least everything will be connected properly.


as for what was mentioned about what connects to the " +12V fuse wire?" the red wire would connect to that. your other "power" wire is the yellow one which whenever i installed headunits and did not use a wiring harness i always ran through the firewall directly to the battery. good luck with it all

 

the radio should have 3 power wires a red one for constant power, a yellow one for acc power and i belive an orange one for the dimmer light. if it dosen't have an orange one leave it off. i think that's right if not the red and yellow are just switched around

 

ok sorry the yellow goes to the battery and the red to an acc source you have no orange so don't worry about it

 

Here let me help.....Your WIRE with the FUSE goes to your battery source, the RED wire goes to your ACC (which stands for accessory). Your so called keep-lights-on wire can be connected to your ACC wire.

Heres a wiring diagram for your car:

Yellow wire from Headunit connects to White wire with Blue Stripe from vehicles harness.

Red wire from Headunit connects to Yellow wire with Red stripe from vehicles harness.

Just follow those wiring instructions and your **** should operate.


Modified by CantThinkOfAScreenName at 12:20 AM 9/3/2006

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondachris1994 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I would suggest going to a junk yard and cut the plugs u need then crimp them back on and then go buy the harness and your done and everything is rt </TD></TR></TABLE>

Definately. Go to a junkyard and CUT the harness (dash harness) of an LX in there (so you have the plugs). Then line 'em up and crimp 'em to the existing cut wires you have - now you have plugs. Go to any store like circuit city or best buy that sells harnesses, they're like $9.99, from &lt;your year&gt; LX to your model radio - everything plugs right in, everything works, ur happy, it's done right, easiest way, etc. etc.

 

dont remake the Honda harnesses (flimsy) use Toyota ones. they are nice. get both end (female and OE male) and you'll be set. I did it and I'm lovin it.

 

Wow... thank you to everyone for all of these responses after just a day of publicizing my problem. My dad is out of town right now so I'm probably just going to try what CantThinkOfAScreenName said about the wires, and hopefully can use my radio until my dad gets back and we can go to a junkyard and find that piece, cause the last thing i want is this happening again.... lol.

 

Ok guys, so I tried what CantThinkOfAScreenName said, which was...

Yellow (radio) --&gt; White/Blue (dash)
Red (radio) --&gt; Yellow/Red (dash)

...but when I did that, the radio screen lit up, but the LCD screen messages were dim and only viewable from an angle. The CD bay was unresponsive, and nothing was playing through the speakers.

However, when I did this...

Yellow (radio) --&gt; Red/Black (dash)
Red (radio) --&gt; White/Blue & Yellow/Red (dash)

..it worked! The screen lit up and the LCD was perfectly illuminated! The CD bay worked and music played through all the speakers. But in the excitement, I accidentally connected the two groups of power wires, heard a "snap!", and the radio just shut off.

I tried to restart the car, but the radio would only light up the LCD screen (no messages would show, ie. "CD TRACK 5"), the CD bay wouldnt work anymore, and nothing would play. I checked the radio fuse under the steering wheel, and the fuse in the back of the radio, but neither of them were broken, and I have no idea why the radio would stop playing now. :-/

the plot thickens.

 

bump. =[

 

Hmmm did I get my wiring mixed up, I apologize for the mis-information anyways If you got a test light handy go ahead and ground the alligator clip on the chassis and take the probe and touch the top part of the fuses (from the top of the fuse youll see the amp rating and two little metal tips on each side) probe those metal tabs on the top and that'll tell if the fuses are blown. Make sure the car is in the ON position when your doing this. Sometimes blown fuses cant be checked just by looking at them.

 

Enjoy

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CantThinkOfAScreenName &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Here let me help.....Your WIRE with the FUSE goes to your battery source, the RED wire goes to your ACC (which stands for accessory). Your so called keep-lights-on wire can be connected to your ACC wire.

Heres a wiring diagram for your car:

Yellow wire from Headunit connects to White wire with Blue Stripe from vehicles harness.

Red wire from Headunit connects to Yellow wire with Red stripe from vehicles harness.

Just follow those wiring instructions and your **** should operate.


Modified by CantThinkOfAScreenName at 12:20 AM 9/3/2006</TD></TR></TABLE>

Been a while since I've done stereo stuff. Isn't yellow the switched wire and the red the one that holds the memory so it constantly needs power? If so, you need to switch the red and the yellow around.
Like I said, it's been a while.
And to the OP, there should be a legend of what goes where on the deck itself. FYI, in the above schematic, the white/blue wire is the one with constant power. yellow/red is switched, as you can obviously see.

Hope you get her fixed.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IslandSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Been a while since I've done stereo stuff. Isn't yellow the switched wire and the red the one that holds the memory so it constantly needs power? If so, you need to switch the red and the yellow around.
Like I said, it's been a while.
And to the OP, there should be a legend of what goes where on the deck itself. FYI, in the above schematic, the white/blue wire is the one with constant power. yellow/red is switched, as you can obviously see.

Hope you get her fixed.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Yeah like I said I got my wiring screwed up. Been doing metal fabrication all week and Im seeing freaking dots...LOL

 

Why do people do this? All my friends cars have this done because they bought them from ******* morons. People that cut up their stock wiring harness need to burn, no offense. This just creates LOADS of problems for the people that will one day buy your car.