When I bought my civic there was no radio. There are absolutly no wires there except for the hook-up for the radio antenna. How much would you think it would caost to get wires ran back up to it with a new harness?

 

If you go ask someone without knowledge of the labour involved they will make you pay through the nose. Most people like me will do it pretty cheap with some dinner

The job involves running a power wire, usually from the fuse panel, to the radio (rough 7 feet), connecting a ground which you can find right in the radio area (1.5 feet), running the speaker wire which is prob still around but just hidden...or if you need to make new runs, the bitch is getting through the door.

Dont pay for anything more than one hour of labour. Don't bother asking them to make a "new" harness for it, because when you buy a new deck your going to have to tap into those wire that were run anyways.

Cheers
-Rage

 

What about the extra power wire that turns it on when the key is turned? I cant think of the name for it right now!!!!! The guy put pioneer speakers all the way around so he had something in there. I believe he had some subs and nice amps and probably a good head unit and it all got stolen that is why it is bare. If it is somewhat simple I will do it myself. Tell me everything I need because it is bare bones right now just a hole in the dash.

 

oh yea. sorry, thats the ignition/starter/accessory wire its basically a wire you can grab right off the ignition.

The install is dead easy if you take the time, or get someone to do the grunt work for no more than 30/40 bucks (even that is good for canadian!! I'd do it for $30 and maybe a harveys dinner)

You will need a couple runs of wire here they are:

If you can borrow a spool of like 14 Gauge/16 Gauge wire, you can use it to wire up your ground, power, and accessory wire. The ground and power should be the same size (max 12 gaguge, dont get anything less than 16...use 18 if you have to...stock is 22 gauge and sucks if your gonna add a deck later)

You will need no more than 20 feet (umm..i hope) of the 14 gauge wire, make sure its a single wire, not a speaker pair.

The speaker wire I think someone said should be no bigger than 14 gauge (nothing special, none of that ribbed stuff) if you plan on getting through the damn harness on the door (the insturctions for this are in the archive, and in the honda-tech faq I think. I will post the link if i can find it)

For the speaker wire, your gonna have to measure, buy the wire after you have the deck out...but your prob need like 10 feet for each door, and 20 for each in the rear deck

DO NOT GOTO RADIOSHACK. Goto an electronics store in the area, or even a car audio shop to pick up the wire, don't get swayed by anything special, its just power/ground/signal wire for your deck, not an amplifier.

-Rage

 

one thing to point out...if the car has an antenna...and there was no theft damage....the oem radio harness is taped up in the radio cavity...just my 0.02.

 

I bought the speaker wire and power wire. I put in the speaker wire for all the speakers just as I was putting in the power wire I found the harness. So all I need now is the wiring code for the different colors.

 

http://integra.cyberglobe.net/caraudio/diagrams/

enjoy !

-Rage

 

just hook up the left front speak wires, to the left front speaker wires from the new deck/radio you have. same with the passengerside and the back. then make sure you plug the antenna in. you need not worry about colors of the wires, except for seperating positive and negative from each speaker and connecting them to the matching labeled wires from the new deck you'll get it