Putting HU Faceplate in Door Panel

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Topic: Putting HU Faceplate in Door Panel

Posted By: specialblendj
Subject: Putting HU Faceplate in Door Panel
Date Posted: September 06, 2003 at 1:14 AM

I was wondering if anyone knew how to have your faceplate mounted in a different location than the HU itself. I have seen this done in magazines before. How do you get the HU to work and communicate with the Faceplate. I want to put the faceplate in my door panel, why having my deck in an extra DIN in my dash or something. The car is a '97 civic dx 4 door.

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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: September 06, 2003 at 3:38 PM

You have to dismantle the radio and the face. Then you solder wires to the point where the face makes contact with the radio, then run the wires where you want the face and do the same to the face. You may also need to bypass a switch in the radio that tells when the face is in place. This is in simplest terms.

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Posted By: Rapid Roo
Date Posted: September 08, 2003 at 12:29 PM

Does anyone know where to get the connectors that PIONEER uses for the face plate. Rather than solder on to the PC board I would rather use the connectors that they use and build a harness for it.

any help would be great, thanks.

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Posted By: MAXST
Date Posted: September 08, 2003 at 3:43 PM

You can use flat wire...like in computers. solding this is the only way i believe.. then ya just match the connections..

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