Hi everyone, I'am new to this forum and would like to know, if anyone
has come across this problem. I had to replace the stock head unit
on my 97 Civic, I went to Best Buy and had a JVC unit installed.
After I got home, the keyless door entry,no longer worked. I
took it back and they told me that I had to have the stock head unit
installed somewhere in the vehicle i.e. inside the dash console.
I checked the Honda owners manual and yes it does say that
non-Honda radio will disable the keyless entry remote.. Does anyone
have a workaround or solution to this problem?
Thank you,
Moteel323

 

Did you keep the stock radio? Most people leave the remote connector plugged into the stock radio and tuck it behind the new radio.

 

I'm not sure if that held true for 95 civics as well, but in addition to an aftermarket head unit and that standard single red blinking bulb next to the rear defrost button, there's a small circuit board sitting on top of my steering column with some wiring going into it. As far as I could tell, that was for the keyless entry, but that might have been something he put in there to get past the stock head unit limitation. Just a thought.

 

Installing the stock head unit behind the dash IS the workaround. You dont have to wire it up to speakers or anything since you have the new head unit for that. Just wire up the bare necessities for your keyless entry. I think ur dome light also doesnt work without it but I could be wrong.

 

On a '95, the stock radio is just a radio. The other systems are completely independent of it.

 

Only the 96-98 Civics had Keyless tied to their radios. You also lost your dome light if the idiot installer didn't know what wires to short. IIRC there is the dual harness option that allows you to retain your stock HU for keyless and/or alarm as well as plugging into the aftermarket radio.

I have seen some individuals leave the stock radio in place and install their aftermarket HU where the factory tape deck went by the drink holders. With the lid up, no one could see the aftermarket deck. The only downside is that was a pain in the *** to stretch down to change CDs, operate the volume, etc.

 

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If you purchase that harness, you can hook up your new receiver to the stock wiring, and then the other harness will go to your stock radio. If you use this harness without lengthening any of the wires, you will only have 1 location you can really install it at, and that is down behind the dash behind where the stock tape deck goes (behind the cup holders).

It fits in there, but with my installation I had to move a lot of stock wires that were tied downed to various locations that made putting the stock radio into the hole near impossible.

I had to unhook and move the 12V accessory wiring to make the stock stereo sit back further to allow the dash panel sit properly. Because of this, it wouldn't reach the 12V accessory anymore but it could easily be fixed to reach, I just never use it and saw no point in taking the extra time to run a little extra wire. I also put a strip of electrical tape over the stock screen so I didn't get an odd glow from behind the dash.

Hope that helps if you go this route.


Also, this reminds me of when I was looking for a Civic a couple of months ago. Checked out a dealer with a 96 Civic with 80,000 miles on it, and in the pictures online it showed it with a stock stereo. When I got there, it was clear they had just installed a new stereo. They couldn't figure out why they remote entry didn't work anymore.

 

Question, has anyone tried to just use the green security box that is screwed onto the OEM radio? When I was doing my install, I tried to see if I could just wire directly into green box so I wouldn't have to install the whole radio.

What deterred me was that there were 3 harnesses coming off 3 groups of bound wires. 1 harness was for sound and went into the OEM radio, one was a green harness that went into the OEM radio, and one was a green harness that went into the security box on the oem radio (and has 1 wire that connects between both green harnesses).

Would have been so much easier if there was a way to mount just that box instead of the whole radio, but only information regarding the whole radio exists which made it the easier route.

 

The other gizmo screwed into the radio is the Alarm module. Sadly, without the radio, the alarm is useless since the stock radio controls the keyless functions and what not. In other words, you can have keyless entry through the stock radio without the alarm module but you can not have the alarm module without the stock radio. Sucks, doesn't it?

 

That explains why no one has done just the alarm module then. Oh well, mine works just fine setup like everyone else's