Hooking up my new stereo and have more wires on the headunit wireharness than I have on my harness going to the vechile wire system. I have all the speaker wires connected, but coming out of the radio I have...

Battery - Yellow
Illumination - Org
ACC - Blue
Mute - Yellow / Black
System Remote Control - Blue / White

... and out of the car's wires...

12V - Yellow
Illumination - Org
Positive Dimmer - Org / White
ACC - Red
Power Antenna - Blue

Now, I can figure out that the Battery and 12V wires, Ill and Ill wires, ACC and ACC wires, go together; but what should I connect the Positive Dimmer wire too? the System Remote wire goes to the amp and the power antenna isn't used, correct?

Any help would be great.

 

The blue with white stripe should be the power antenna. The solid blue should be remote. Unless your cd player has a dimmer feature, forget it. Sometimes youll have extra wires, hence "universal wiring harness" . If you need any other help lemme know.

 

remington,

I think that the face plate of the radio does have a dimming feature on it, but I really don't care about that just want it to light up when it's dark and I turn on the headlights (like all the other things in the car does). So the only wires I should have to connect are the...

Yellow - Yellow
Blue - Red
Org - Org
and the system remote going to the remote on the amp.

the pwr antenna and the dimmer wires can go away?

 

Your stereo will light up regardless. Now, if you have a power antenna then wire it. If not, crimp or tape it off. To double check that you have the correct wire for the remote, make sure your amp functions whilst your cd player is running. If your amp only comes on when the radio is on, that means that you have wired the remote to the power antenna wire. capeche?

 

got ya, thanks for the assist

 

no problem what so ever!

 

ACC coming from the radio should be red unless it is a generic model or older.


Also I dont belive any civics ever had power ant did they?

 

As silly as this may sound, ive never tried to find out where the antenna is. I think is glass mounted.

 

yeah, you can tell if you have a glass mount by looking in the back window where the defroster is built in and near the top there will be some lines that look alot like the defrost only ussally in a much more sparatic pattern and they never touch the actuall defrost lines. Thats how you know for sure.

 

The 2000 ex civic has the antenna over the driver door, and is retractable but manually.