Today I was helping my buddy trouble shoot a stereo problem with his 92 Honda Civic Si and something went wrong. The original problem was the left side of the car wouldnt play any audio whatsoever, so we pulled the aftermarket deck out to see if everything was connected properly. To our amazement, it wasnt, the wire for the left hand side of the car wasnt connected. So we connected it and tried the deck out to see if we fixed the problem. WEll we goto turn on the deck and NO POWER to the deck at all. We checked all teh connections and undid what we did and nothing still. We even bought another wiring harness and hooked it up to a different deck and still no power whatsoever. I checked all the fuses and nothing, none of them are blown. I checked the cigarette lighter(it runs off the same fuse) to see if it worked and yes it did. There is an odd thing tho, for some reason the clock is showing up very dim and we have no idea why and im not too sure if the clock is related to the radio in any way or not. So this is where we are at now and we dont know waht do to. The original honda harness and wiring looks mint and its not the wiring we did cause its all new now. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in Advance Dion
Problem 1.) Its a Honda, wiring in these cars are very weak. Try and pin point the shortage with a voltage meter. Bout all i can say about it because i cant see it myself.
Yeah, you will need an "air bag safe test light" or a standard voltage meter. Check your constant, memory, and ground. Sounds as if your memory has broken.
I'm mistaken, I was thinking of early model Preludes. The Preludes have 6v on constant and 6v on memory so if 1 if disconnected, the other functions normally with only 50% voltage. Best advice I can give you is to have someone look at it, most shops won't charge you to test a few wires and other easy troubleshooting.
We got the deck to work now but we have a problem. The deck and the clock will not keep there memory. When you turn the car off, then on, the clock says 1:00 and the deck is in Demo mode. Now should we switch the 12v ignition and 12v battery wires to see if thats gonna solve the problem? Or does anyone have any other idea why its not keeping memory? Thanks Dion
