i have a 98 civic and have a 00 S2000 OEM CD player deck. I bought a harness from like best buy to wire it up. everything works but the buttons don't light up. The main screen does but nothe buttons.

what or how do I wire it so it all lights up?

 

Did you connect the harnesses together matching color to color?

 

yea.. i matched everything up.. i'm about to pull it in a few hours.. but i do remember there was one extra wire from the harness

 

make sure your illumination wire is connected and getting power when you turn your lights on

 

so make sure the illumination and power wire are connected to the same source?

 

straight up noob question

http://www.installdr.com/QuickWiring.html i'm looking at that

which wire is for power source for the deck? the ignition wire or battery wire... i'm looking at my harness and I have one illumination wire that isn't connected to anything.. so i need to T-Tap that into the right wire

 

this is how it's wired right now

with the key in the ignition


with parking lights on (first click)

well in the picture you can see it because it's so dim

so my problem is when i turn on the parking lights.. the deck dims and I can't control it with my dimmer like the rest of my lighting.. is this wrong, or am I trippen?

 

if you don't care about the dimming feature you can just pull the deck back out and cut (and tape off) the orange or orange/white wire

 

You've got the illumination wires connected incorrectly.

Post a pic of the two harnesses you connected, and spread the wires out so we can see colors of each wire.

 

The illumination wire in the stock radio harness is not controlled by the "dimmer" control, in fact the "dimmer" control does not control the dash light power wire, [red/black] it controls the ground wire to the lights, [red].

It is working the way it is supposed to, it dims the lights when you turn on the park/head lights, as they do not need to be as bright at night. 94

 

^^^ Are you sure? I thought the face of the radio dimmed with the dimmer control?

 

red/black is parking lights.

red (car side) is the variable resistance dimmer wire.

Some decks use one and some use the other. This is why it's not wise to connect the orange wire on an aftermarket deck unless you know what you're doing. Is it a +, is it a -, or is it a variable resistance? Get it wrong, you can blow the cluster.

No, do not connect the illumination wire to your power wire.

Red goes to switched accessory (yellow/red)

Yellow goes to battery (white/blue)

 

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no because the radio get the parking light wire -red/blk. This wire is not effected by the dimmer switch. It comes on with the parking lights. When i was at cc we would never hook up the dimmer because on some cars it would blow the dash lights.

 

Meh.... I never hooked up illumination for exactly that reason. Eliminated confusion on which wire I needed, and eliminated the chance of something going wrong...

Funny story about that though... I did an install in some '84 Volvo and the guy came back the next day saying that his dash lights weren't working and that it was my fault.

Showed him a new radio and where the illumination wire was, then pulled the radio I installed in his vehicle and showed him the orange wire from the deck capped off, and asked him to show me the orange wire in the Metra harness... After about a minute, he told me that it wasn't there, which was correct because I always depinned the orange wires from each & every harness...

He apologized and left. lol

 

On Honda/Acura HUs the lights and readout/screen dim when park/head lights are turned on, same as the clock, [it is the same with most aftermarket HUs].

I have never had a problem connecting the illumination, [red/black] of Honda/Acuras to the illumination input of any HU, even on HUs that have back lighting that is supposed to dim with the dash lights, [they just don't dim].

I do not however connect illumination outputs in cars that are controlled by the dimmer switch to HUs that do not have back lighting that is supposed to dim with the dash lights, or use the rev. dimmer on any HU. 94

 

Could it be the Dimmer Wire and the Illumination wires were switched?

 

There is no "dimmer" lead, only an illumination lead. 94

 

i'll try to get pictures up this weekend. So is there no way to hook up the deck to my dimmer option?

 

Your 00 S2000 HU does not have a "dimmer" input, it only has an illumination input, [red/black], your 98 Civic does not have a "dimmer" output lead, it also only has an illumination lead, [red/black], so no, there is no way to have the lights in the HU controlled by the "Dash Lights Brightness Controller". 94

 

thanks...

 

Question, what color bulbs do you have in your Integra cluster & climate?

I too have an Si radio, and I bought these "orange" bulbs from autozone but they don't match my radio.