Okay, I recently got this head unit free as a gift. I hooked it up to my 1989 Honda Civic DX sedan, and I simply cannot get it to work. It won't turn on at all. I spliced all the wires instead of using a harness, but I made sure my crimp connections were tight and worked. I downloaded documentation to figure out the wiring in my civic, and I must have checked to make sure I hooked everything up to the right wires 47 times!
Anyone have any ideas? I've installed car stereos without wiring harnesses a million other times and I've always been able to get them to work but I just don't know what to do now!
Oh and yes I checked all the fuses in the stereo and the car, and they are fine.
i bet i know your problem now. see certain stock radios use a odd setup where u need a external positive. like acc wire , i worked on a 2000 sunfire. it's install went normal but wouldn't turn on. turned out i need to wire a external acc wire to make the radio turn on. try that run a diff acc wire not stock.
Wait, I'm sorry but I'm really confused. Are you saying that I need to hook up a external positive to the case? And what exactly do you mean by ACC wire? I just don't see where else I could hook up another positive to the stereo.
And yeah I figured out that the fuses were just bad insulation on my part, so I made sure everything was insulated correctly. Although I did try another SABB radio I got from a junk yard and that was shorting internally and blew another two fuses on me. I'm running out of fuses.
No the positive i'm talkin is the acc wire. if u look in the alpine manual it will tell u where it' at. what this does is senswe when ur igniton is on and tell the radio ok turn me on. it's like a rem works on a amplifier. the acc needs to be wired to a postive where when the key is on it sees 12 volts when off it sees nothing. btw acc is short for accesory.