my friend has a 89-91 Teg (i think thats the year) and he got a panasonic head unit...
he's letting me use it so when i took it out Circuit City ran a red wire from the cd player wire harness to the fuss box that had ACC on it. i was told that since his car was a 89-91 that it used that line to turn it on when the keys are in the on position.

i have a 96 Ek and i didnt have a place for this wire so i just left it out. When i plug everything up the Cd player doesnt work. Im pretty sure its getting power because the little red security light is blinking (when the face is off)

i checked the fuses and replaced the back up radio fuse in the engine bay and it still didnt work.

am i checking the right fuses? why isnt it working? please help me

driving with no music sucks

thanks francis

sorry if this is the wrong thread but i know a lot of people from circuit city hang out here

 

that red wire is one of the most important wires... heh. the yellow is a constant source directly to the battery, that's why the red light blinks. the red wire is what actually turns the receiver on. if you got the harness for your car you can splice it directly into the harness, which is the easiest way. if not, you're gonna have to run it to a switched source that comes on when you turn the key.

 

the harness came from a 89-91 teg. is there a differences for a 96-EK?

 

the honda harness or the head unit harness? you need to splice those 2 together, you know that part right?

 

yea it was already spliced from Circuit City....sorry im not really good wit car audio... but its the head unit harness

 

sorry I'm not real good with hondas... I've done a few before but I forgot if there's a difference between 89's and 96's... I don't think there is. does it look like this, with your head unit harness spliced into the other side?

 

^that red wire goes directly to a switched ACC source, so you don't have to run any wire...

 

yea im pretty sure thats the harness but that red accessory wire is extended to his fuse box.

im probably just gonna buy a new wiring harness...or is there any thing else to do

 

You just have to find the power wire that goes to the back of the ek's in-dash wiring harness to behind the headunit. I know its there because i just put a head unit in my friends 97 ek, you don't wanna ghetto rig it to the ACC fuse thats NOT the correct way. Honda has a power wire hooked up stock to that plug behind your stock headunit (obviously, because your stock headunit was working at one point, without the power wire (red) hook up the the ACC fuse).

Go to Circuit City and tell them you need a 96 civic head unit harness, they will give you one for an apline(and they might have panasonic too). Just cut off the connector that would go to the back of the head unit (apline or whatever) and splice the harness from the back of the panasonic into the plug for the stock wiring harness you got from circuit city (its really easy).

Or you could make it easy and get a panasonic adaptor to the civic and it would just be plug and play.