civic keyless

well i just finish putting my friend system on his 97 honda civic lx. everything works great but on the back of the stock tape deck there was two plugs the radio one and the one that controls the keyless and some light(plug is green). i was wondering if there is a plug that they make to bypass this or do i have to try to find a place to put the stock headunit so they work? thanks

so your keyless doesnt work after installin the head unit?Houston,TX

"The two most common elements in the universe are H+ and stupidity" (Ellison).

yeah there was 2 plug that went to the head unit. one was for the radio and the other one for the keyless and domelight. it all works if i plug the green plug on the stock headunit but there is no place to put the stock headunit at.

there is a place to put the stock head unit. if you take the dash off under the radio it will fit vertically along the very front of the opening. it is a tight fit and you need to make sure that you give the factory unit power also, use harness' for the power, switched and ground. the radio will fit you just have to finess it a little. I know it fits because i've done probably 30 of them.I like cars more than women, because their the perfect challenge.

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yeah you have to hide the stock readio behind the dash to keep the factory keyless! Only way around it is if you upgrade to a better alarm systemCruisin Security And Sounds

Go and get your self a metra harness 70-1720T it has the extension and the radio will fit snugly in the lower dash as said under the radio behind the ashtray pannel You dont neet to connect the antenna to the orig radio just to the new one and all will be fine.

thanks guy. well it is for my friends car and i will be putting an alarm after he sell his car so we can finish the inside of his car. this is what we have so far; cva-1003 in-dash, faranheit dvd player, alpine v12 5 channel(dont know the model # of the top of my head), 6.5 type r componets,3 jl w3 dvc 4ohms in a seal box. plan to buy once he sell his other car; alarm not sure which one yet, 2 channel amp for the sub not sure yet but something better than the 5th channel on the alpine, tinted windows, and a new box ported to about 30htz. what kind of alarm do u guy recomend. price dont really matter. thanks

Its possible to get the domelight working by jumping two of the wires together in the green plug. Both will test as a door trigger wire when plugged into the factory radio. One of the wires is GREEN/ red, I don't remember the color of the other one. You won't need to put the factory radio behind/below the factory radio if you add an alarm. As others have said, you should have used part # 70-1720T instead of a 70-1720 (Metra part numbers) Or if you want, stash the radio below where it used to be. There is room. I've probably done about 10, although its been a couple years since the last one.

I believe you need to connect the lt. GREEN/ red to the lt. GREEN/ black of the alarm harness to make the domelight work.