Xeryon Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 So the junkyard beast I bought came without a stereo. I drive very little and a stereo was low on my list of priorities to fix. Its been 4-5 months now and I'm ready to wire it up. So I grab an old pioneer that I pulled from a friends car a while back and I'm wiring it up and I get nothing. I am no noob when it comes to wiring a stereo. This might be number 50+ for me to have wired in. All through HS I wired friends cars for side money. So I am confident that the harness I assembled is good. That and I actually had a spare civic harness laying around, and a second identical pioneer head unit too, so I wired up a second stereo and same problem. The issue is, if I connect the 12v power to the 12v power and I connect the battery constant to the battery connect I get nothing. The 12v is putting out like 11.5v so its in good shape, but the battery feed is only 2.5v. And I cannot remember what the spec for that should be but I'm pretty sure 2.5 is not what it should be. In any case, the only way to get the stereo working at all is to cross wire the battery lead from the head unit into the power feed. Stereo works ok when the car is on, but the display doesn't have enough power to light up correctly and all the presets reset every time you turn the car off. Annoying to say the least. This is a first for me, I'm kind of at a loss as to what would be causing this issue. I have never encountered an issue where the car OEM wiring may be faulty. Rather then tear my dash apart to search for shorts, I was thinking of where I could string a new battery feed to that would provide the correct supply. I'm listening to all suggestions on this. Listening to some tunes would be nice after 5 months of silence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xer0 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 if it reset then you don't have the constant wired. your powering it completely off the accessories. did u mess up the accessories and the +12, like crossed them? if your gonna rewire it go trait to your fuse box and patch off there, they make these clips that splice in to wires, so u can like tap in to the wire whit like a crimp and your done( don't know if i described it right, but they do have them at walmart) i say to go there jsut to keep the fuse and make it look cleaner. but if u didn't relay care and wanted a quick fix. get a inline fuse holder and just run striate off the battery to the deck. check your fuses tho, one of them could of built up some corrosion and that build up may be acting as a resistor and knocking down the voltage then again could always invest in some D's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 Yea, I had a fuse issue previously. The car had been the parts car in the junkyard. When I went to buy it they pulled parts from all the other hondas they had in the yard to get this one rolling again. The fuses were a mess. I had to pull the service manuals and remove every fuse in the car and reinstall them one by one. The radio is functioning, just not a full power. If I had a bad fuse it shouldn't be working at all. Yea, the issue is that when I wire directly to the constant like you are supposed to do, then nothing works. Right now both the constant and the accessory are spliced together and running off the accessory line for it to work at all. When I got the car there was no stereo, just the default Honda connector with no stereo harness attached to it. I didn't think about running straight from the battery. I suppose I could just tee off the power line for the amp and run the spur directly to the deck if I can't find another solution. Would look fairly clean too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xer0 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Yea, the issue is that when I wire directly to the constant like you are supposed to do, then nothing works. Right now both the constant and the accessory are spliced together and running off the accessory line for it to work at all. that would be why it is resetting when u turn off the car lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 I know that. Resetting when I turn the car off is only a symptom of the actual problem. I was hoping for ideas on a fix, not pointing out what I already know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xer0 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 just run a new wire with an inline fuse or splice in some where else. or you could just re wire the whole car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 Thats what I am going to try and do. I am currently running an amp feed as it is, so I'm just going to tee off off that to supply the constant to the stereo. Doing it this way should also keep the number of wires criss-crossing the engine bay down. I have to wait until after next monday to finish running the amp though. Way off topic, but can anyone post a pic of their spare tire and jack storage location for a 92-95 civic coupe or sedan? I have to go in for a salvage to steetable vehicle inspection on Monday, and they are hardcore in Ohio. One of the things I have to make sure is to have the jack stowed correctly. Trouble is when I bought the car it didn't have a jack, so I had to snag one from another car, neither of which were stored. So I don't know where/how it is supposed to properly store - according to manufacturers specifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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