8th Generation Honda Civic Forum - View Single Post - 07 Full audio system install (updated as I have time)

xxfrozen · 08-17-2007, 08:43 AM

Sorry for the delay, i've been kinda busy.

But I ran these switches from the yellow wire from the radio harness, so they only power up when the car is on. I'll take a pic of the back over the weekend. The photos don't do the blue light on the switch justice; the blue LED on the switches gives a very nice and smooth blue ambient glow, I got the switches at pep boys for like 3$ each. For install, pop off the panel and lay it flat on a box or w/e, you will see a pattern for rectangles with plastic ridges, take a small bit and drill in the center of the rectangle to start the hole, if you've been following my guide from the beginning take the 1/2" bit you used to drill the firewall to run power to the subs, and drill the starter hole. (make sure your doing this from the back, as it will make the install cleaner. Depening on how many switches you want/need drill those out as well. My amp has a volume control knob wire that I also mounted, this one was a bit trickier, I used an average sized bit, and once through the plastic I made the hole bigger gradually (a dremel might be a better idea for it). I think twisted the volume control knob into the panel, surprisingly the plastic is thick enough that it will create threads on it's own, so I didn't even need to use a washer/bolt to keep it in place.

From left to right; the first switch turns the subwoofers on/off, middle switch is for my pioneer video bypass, (for the AVH-P5900DVD unit and probably most of the newer models, you need to run you the pioneer's parking brake wire (green) to the load lead on the switch (usually the prong in the middle), and then run a ground to the ground lead; when you play video, switch it on/off/on to bypass the video) and then on right I have my subwoofer volume control knob.

Here is an attempt to show the LED from the switch.

I haven't tried running a hot wire to the pioneer bypass switch, mainly because i'm not sure if it will affect the unit or not, the reason I want to do this is so both switches will light up, as of now on the subwoofer switch is lighting.

PS: So I only need now to get the steering wheel audio controls working; anyone have a pic they could take for me of the exact location of the wire to be tapped into from the harness, or better yet have a pic of they're install I could use. I'll post a detailed DIY once I'm sure I can do this right lol.

08-17-2007, 08:43 AM	#77 (permalink)
xxfrozen Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 44	Sorry for the delay, i've been kinda busy. But I ran these switches from the yellow wire from the radio harness, so they only power up when the car is on. I'll take a pic of the back over the weekend. The photos don't do the blue light on the switch justice; the blue LED on the switches gives a very nice and smooth blue ambient glow, I got the switches at pep boys for like 3$ each. For install, pop off the panel and lay it flat on a box or w/e, you will see a pattern for rectangles with plastic ridges, take a small bit and drill in the center of the rectangle to start the hole, if you've been following my guide from the beginning take the 1/2" bit you used to drill the firewall to run power to the subs, and drill the starter hole. (make sure your doing this from the back, as it will make the install cleaner. Depening on how many switches you want/need drill those out as well. My amp has a volume control knob wire that I also mounted, this one was a bit trickier, I used an average sized bit, and once through the plastic I made the hole bigger gradually (a dremel might be a better idea for it). I think twisted the volume control knob into the panel, surprisingly the plastic is thick enough that it will create threads on it's own, so I didn't even need to use a washer/bolt to keep it in place. From left to right; the first switch turns the subwoofers on/off, middle switch is for my pioneer video bypass, (for the AVH-P5900DVD unit and probably most of the newer models, you need to run you the pioneer's parking brake wire (green) to the load lead on the switch (usually the prong in the middle), and then run a ground to the ground lead; when you play video, switch it on/off/on to bypass the video) and then on right I have my subwoofer volume control knob. Here is an attempt to show the LED from the switch. I haven't tried running a hot wire to the pioneer bypass switch, mainly because i'm not sure if it will affect the unit or not, the reason I want to do this is so both switches will light up, as of now on the subwoofer switch is lighting. PS: So I only need now to get the steering wheel audio controls working; anyone have a pic they could take for me of the exact location of the wire to be tapped into from the harness, or better yet have a pic of they're install I could use. I'll post a detailed DIY once I'm sure I can do this right lol.