Honda Civic 1996-1998 Radio Replacement PDF Installation Manual

Does your Honda Civic have a remote control keyless entry that was included as standard equipment from Honda? If your vehicle does, there is a problem that needs to be considered BEFORE installing a new replacement radio. The electronics for the Honda keyless entry system are built into the Honda radio. If you unplug and remove the Honda radio, you will disconnect the Honda keyless entry system.

THERE IS A SOLUTION: As of the print date of this document, there are no third party adapters to allow you to completely remove the Honda radio. The most accepted method to install a new radio in this situation is to actually keep the Honda radio inside the vehicle. The Install Doctor
will show you how to do this inside these instructions. It basically involves moving the Honda radio behind the center console and mounting the new radio into the location where the Honda radio would normally be mounted.

TOOL TIPS:
Small Battery: use a battery to test speaker wires. Touching the (+) positive and (-) negative baterry leads to a pair of speaker will cause the speaker to make a “Pop” sound indicating that pair of wires goes to that speaker. Voltage Meter: Always check +12 Volt power wires for voltage before making wire connections. These wires will fluctuate between 10 and 14 Volts Solder Iron or Crimp Tool: make wire to wire connections using either a solder iron and electrical tape, OR plastic crimp terminals found at most hardware or auto parts stores.

Wiring Instructions:
The power and speaker wires needed to connect the new radio are attached to the connector of the wire harness located inside the vehicles dash. The Install Doctor STRONGLY recommends using an optional snap on wire harness that is especifically designed to snap into the vehicles dash wire harness connector. This will keep you from cutting the vehicles wires. This optional snap on wireharness will have wires on the opposite side of the connector that will allow you to splice these wires to the new radios wires. The only other option is to cut off the vehicles dash wire harness connector and splice the new radios wires directly to these wires. The optional snap on wire harness takes all the guess work out of trying to figure out what each wire is in the vehicles dash wire harness. The optional snap on wire harness shows you what each wire is.

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