cntrylvr79 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Not bad? Just out of curiousity you wouldn't happen to have the factory 6disc changer up there would you? if you do, I can help you make that work too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leon389 Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 No I don't. But I would really want to have the radio buttons and a/c controls to light up at night. Since Honda has both in one. I bought a factory harness and tried to feed power to the unit but it wasn't working, so finally I connected red with red and yellow with yellow and smoke came out and that was the end of my experiment. But if you know how I can make that to work, I can get another factory radio off ebay or something. thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Do you mean the changer in the console? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cntrylvr79 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 I mean the indash changer of the 03-up accords. Not a hard thing to do. Need a 70-1721, a 71-1721, a line out converter, a short rca jumper, and a radio with a rear aux input. Now that you've got that, splice the lineout converter to the front speaker wires of the 70-1721. Cap off the rear speaker wires of that harness you won't need them. Tie in the yellow,black,red,and orange wires to the 70-1721. Now wire up your new radio to that same 70-1721 harness. You'll more than likely have to turn the gains on the lineout converter down, but all you gotta do now is run the rca from the lineout converter to the aux input of the new radio. One of these days, I'll take a picture of the harness next time I do this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leon389 Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 No changer, but the cd/radio/a.c unit wich is all in one. I want it to work but it wont have the speakers or radio antena hooked up. I just want it to light up at night so I dont have a black space in my dash. But I don't know if its possible though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cntrylvr79 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 It should light up. What harness did you use to install that thing? Did it have another end on it to plug back into the stock radio? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leon389 Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 I used the stock radio harness from honda, which has the connector to plug it in the radio and lose ends on the other side. So the one that is in the car I hooked it up to the aftermarket harness that you hook up to the avic's harness. Now the one I bought from honda I hook it up to the stock radio unit with the correct combination of wires (this part I messed up because the unit started smoking) which I would get from avic harness or aftermarket harness. I don't know if I explained it right but you get the idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Pretty tricky........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Oh, and I got mixed up with an Expedition thread I was on. Duh, no console changer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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