Hellooo.

This may sound like a noob question/problem but I'm getting frustrated and tired of it not working.

So basically I bought my 90 si that had an aftermarket cd player. I decided I wanted to switch it back to a stock Honda deck so I could use the tape player and it would look nice and oem.

However when I started doing the wiring (which should be very simple), I came across an issue where it would seem to not get power. I used a reverse harness that I bought from Best Buy. I hooked up all the wires correctly as far as I could tell by using the following diagram:
http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/HA-Wiring.pdf

In the diagram it says to hook up the yellow/red wire from the dash to the red wire from the stereo harness for the ignition. However I do not see a yellow/red wire coming from my dash. So I tried the red/yellow which does not work. Also I know something is hooked up right because the red led anti-theft light will blink every now and then when I have my car turned off.

I'm very confused and frustrated because I've done this before on other cars and I had no problem.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

ya i would really like to know the answer to this question as well. I believe we are looking for the accessory wire. I tried to do the same thing to hook up my stereo correctly and didn't succeed.

 

For real, any help please?
I know the wiring worked before because the aftermarket stereo worked fine.

BUMP!

 

Get a $5 test-light and find the 12V switched wire. Turn the key to On then use the test light to find the wire. Different year/model might use different wire colors. Do you see the White/Blue wire from your harness? that's the constant 12V, which is always hot. You probably have that constant 12V hooked up correctly because your antitheft light is blinking.

I remember on my CRX, the red/yellow and yellow/red are almost identical to each other.

Again, the cheapo test-light will do you wonder in this case, if you haven't tried it already.

 

white/blue is constant power - comes from underdash fuse box (fuse #12) and runs to cigarette lighter relay and branches off to the stereo for constant power

yellow/red is switched power - comes from underdash fuse box (fuse #17) and also runs to cigarette lighter relay

from cigarette lighter relay, 2 wires come out, one black for ground and one white/green which runs to the lighter and branches off to the stereo for switched power

 

Thanks guys, I've been busy the past couple days but I will try to do it tomorrow and let y'all know!

 

so i forgot i posted in this thread. i read reply #5. i didnt realize that the power for the stereo would come from the cigarette lighter. there was no fuse in there. works like it should now. thanks man!