I posted this in the 92-00 civic section and got nowhere with it.

I bought my 98 ex from a friend who had installed an aftermarket radio in the car. One day she tells me that she found the original radio and if I wanted it, if not it would go in the trash. I said ok, ill take it. I decided to test it out to see if it still works. Who ever installed the current radio in the car did one hell of a wiring job. Im not sure if hondas are different but ive installed a few radios in cars before and have never seen anything like this. The stock radio had two connections in the back of it, a green one and a grey one. The grey plug had a harness connected to it and that was wired up to the aftermarket radio. the green plug was not connected to anything but it had two wires stripped and connected together with a small piece of wire. I removed the wires connecting the two wires on the green plug and disconnected the grey harness and connected both the grey and green plug to the oem radio. It worked right away, no need for a code or anything. After i had enough of that i decided to reconnect the aftermarket one again. I reversed everything i did to remove it and now it will not start up. I was thinking that maybe i burnt a fuse out but i checked the one on the panel that is labeled radio/clock and it was fine. Any ideas on how I can get it working again?

I was told that the two wires that were cut and spliced together were so the dome light can come on. I have checked all the fuses everywhere and still nothing. Any ideas?

 

There are two fuses for the radio, fuse 28 - 10A, in under dash fuse box and fuse 47 - 7.5A, in engine bay fuse box.94

BTW the green plug is for the stock key-less entry system, it used the stock radios R/F section for the remote control.

 

Yeah, I have checked both of those fuses and they are fine. What else can I check?

 

Pull HU and test for power on the acc. and constant power leads... http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/HA-Wiring.pdf make sure you are wired in correctly.

BTW, if you checked the fuses by just eye-balling them. check them again with a multimeter or swap them out with known working ones, [same amperage]. 94

 

check fuse under hood called back-up i think i'd have to double check on my integra it tottaly stoped working then the "backup" fuser under hood was fried. put new fuse in worked fine!