97 Accord EX install...need help!
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Topic: 97 Accord EX install...need help!
Posted By: IndyDSM
Subject: 97 Accord EX install...need help!
Date Posted: June 11, 2003 at 1:32 AM
I've got a 1997 Honda Accord that I just sent home without a working radio. I was installing a JVC El Kameleon CD Player, when all of the sudden, I couldn't turn on the reciever. I found out that it is the remote wire. I have checked the fuse, and it is OK. I even replaced the fuse just to make sure it wasn't barely blown. So now I have a remote wire for the amp, and the CD player has a remote wire that it needs to turn itself on when the keys are in the ACC or ON position, and I cant find anything to hook it up to that only has power in the ACC or ON position. I tried wiring it to the clock, but I had NO luck, and the hazards wont work cause they got continuous power. I have tried the ciggarette lighter also, but it appears to have constant +12V power. I have also tried to hook it up to illumination and dimmer wires, but with no luck. I have looked through here, and the only thing I can see is splicing into the factory harness for the yellow/white antenna trigger, because I dont think my connector is working. I bought an aftermarket connector at Wal-Mart, and it has all of the right connections. It works when I hook up the radio and amp's remote wires to the +12V ciggarette lighters power, but it doesn't shut off when I turn the car off. Does anybody have any ideas of why the factory remote wire isn't working, and whether or not the yellow/white wire will work. I don't care if the amp doesn't turn off, because obviously, if there is no music going to the amp, its not wasting any power, and I doubt the little LED on the amp is gonna draw that much power overnight. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike ------------- "If your gonna go fast, go really, really, really fast so the pigs can't catch you...don't stop for them either...and don't use 'NAWZZZ' either, that's cheating!"
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Posted By: wvsquirrel
Date Posted: June 11, 2003 at 1:59 AM
You can hook up the remote line directly to the ACC wire in the ignition harness (I believe it's the solid yellow wire in your ignition harness). Or you could wire it to a constant 12v source wire and install a toggle switch to manually turn the amp on and off.
The Yellow/White antenna trigger may only work if the Radio is on, not the CD player (since a lot of vehicles only raise a power antenna when the radio is playing, then lower it when a CD is playing). ------------- Squirrel
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Posted By: caveman
Date Posted: June 11, 2003 at 10:48 PM
It seems to me there is a very simple solution. If you bought the connector at Walmart, the acc wire is a red one on it. (yellow/red is the wire it traces back to on the car side plug.) If the red wire has no power when the key is on, check the fuse labeled "radio" in the kickpanel fuse box. The yellow/white wire is the power antenna feed wire and should be hooked to the blue wire on your JVC. The remote for the amplifier should be connected to the blue/white of the JVC. Good luck, Steve ------------- "Installing it yourself keeps my repair man busy"
Posted By: IndyDSM
Date Posted: June 13, 2003 at 12:59 AM
the remote wire for the amp is connected to the blue wire comming off the back of the JVC...since blue is ALWAYS remote. But...the blue remote wire comming off the harness that I bought at Wal-Mart that plugs directly into the factory harness is getting NO power. I already checked the fuse box...I'm not that dumb, and the radio and power antenna have the same fuse. It isn't blown. So...right now I just have it hooked up to the ciggarette lighter, and he has to turn it off manually by pressing the off button on the JVC. I think that I am gonna run a wire to the ignition harness tomorrow for the ACC and ON position wires so that you can only turn on the radio when the keys in the ignition. As of right now, you can turn the radio on manually whenever you want, but the only problem with that is that he can easily forget to turn off the radio if its only on 1 or 2 (volume) and his battery will be drained by the morning. Thanks for all your help.
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"If your gonna go fast, go really, really, really fast so the pigs can't catch you...don't stop for them either...and don't use 'NAWZZZ' either, that's cheating!"
Posted By: JustDoIt2
Date Posted: June 24, 2003 at 10:37 AM
hi, i have a 1998 honda Accord and I want to install a head unit but i dont know how to take out the front panel. How did you do it.. Did you take it out. Out? thank
Posted By: JustDoIt2
Date Posted: June 24, 2003 at 10:37 AM
hi, i have a 1998 honda Accord and I want to install a head unit but i dont know how to take out the front panel. How did you do it.. Did you take it out. Out? thank you
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: June 24, 2003 at 12:12 PM
https://carstereohelp.com/Honda/Accord98_00Str.htm Above is the link to the stereo removal for 1998 - 2002 Accord's ------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
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