so ive decided to put my full boston acoustic pro setup (mids and tweeters) into my 60 civic. what should i expect when removing the front door panels and rear dash? do i have to worry about airbag sensors/airbag deployment. ive never had to deal with more than one airbag before so im a little apprehensive when it comes to pulling stuff off the car. im sure somebody has already done this so any advice on removal of the factory radio and speakers would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

 

I dont think they would go off. Be weary though.

 

If you do an internet search for the ipod interface for the factory stereo, the sites that sell it also include instructions for installing it, which just happen to be very good intstructions for disassmebling the dash. The search I put in Google was "2006 Honda Civic accessories" Good luck.

 

www.collegehillshonda.com
search here for some help....maybe?
http://www.collegehillshonda.com/ins...an/cdtuner.pdf
A GREAT link for removing the radio....

 

I just added some component alpines to my 06 coupe. There are no airbag interfaces in the door itself that would interfere with the install - but you might get into something if you dig too deep in places where the speakers are not mounted. I used a standard 6.5" model with the equipped adapter and it worked out fine. Regarding the rear deck, you will need a 1/2" speaker adapter otherwise they will fall too low into the standard holes and get tied up with the trunk tension rods. I actually had to cut about an inch off the rod on the drivers side of the trunk to get my alpins to fit since they were a fairly deep and wide mount.

Keep in mind when you do this that the stock head unit has built in factory equalization. This means that in order to make up for the stock speakers poor frequency response in the highs and lows, there is a built in bass and treble boost built into the tone system of the head unit. Upgrading your speakers may leave you with a system that is very bass and treble heavy leaving out vocals and other more midrange sounds. JL Audio makes an item called a clean sweep (see their web site) and Alpine is coming out with a very similar item in august. These are designed to remove the built in factory equalization settings and return the stock head unit to a flat response. The JL audio version uses a self adjusting 30 channel (!) equalizer to accomplish this and costs a bit over $300 if I remember correctly.

Currently I am using tone controls, cross overs with level controls and a hand made tweeter level control to compensate for this and it sounds pretty good but I really can't wait to get the factory bias out... I know it will make a huge improvement!

Good luck!