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How do I wire a new power antenna to the existing harness that contains three wires, Green White and Grey?
The new antenna only has three wires, the ground (black) along with blue and red. I need to connect these to the plug that contains Green White and Grey. Which wires should go together for antenna to raise and lower correctly?
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PRELIMINARY: Disconnect the negative battery cable. ANTENNA: The factory antenna is located on top of passenger's side front fender. RADIO REMOVAL AND IN-DASH ...
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ALARM, CRUISE CONTROL, and STEREO Wiring Color Codes for 1996 Honda Civic
This FixYa Tip is for the purpose of installing an Alarm, Remote Starter, Cruise Control, and / or Car Stereo into the vehicle listed in the subject line.
The wires listed are the ones you will need to successfully complete the task.
Some vehicles require additional relays and / or modules to bypass factory security. If they are required - it will be in the NOTES section below the wiring colors.
The following FixYa TIP is good for all Honda Civics for the following production years:
1996
STEREO WIRING COLOR CHART: Constant 12V+: Blue/White Switched 12V+: Yellow/Red Ground: Black Illumination: Red/Black Dimmer: n/a Antenna: Driver's Pillar
Front Speakers: Left Front (+) Blue Left Front (-) Gray/Black Right Front (+) Red/Green Right Front (-) Brown/Black
Rear Speakers: Left Rear (+) Blue/Yellow Left Rear (-) Gray/White Right Rear (+) Red/Yellow Right Rear (-) Brown/White
NOTES: Retain Keyless entry with secondary Harness Listed Below Additional Accessories: Metra Brand Dash Kit: 89-30-7891 - 99-7891 - 99-7898 Metra Brand Wiring Harness: 70-1720 W/Keyless Entry # 70-1720T Metra Brand Antenna Adapter: n/a
ALARM / REMOTE START WIRING CHART: Constant 12V+: White - Ignition Switch Harness Starter: Black/White - Ignition Switch Harness Ignition: Black/Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Ignition 2: Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Accessory: White/Black - Ignition Switch Harness Tach: Blue - Coil Brake Switch: Green/White - Brake Switch Trunk Pin: Blue/Black - (-) Driver's Kick Panel Parking Lights: Red/Black - (+) Driver's Kick Panel Head Lamp: Red/White (L) Red/Blue (R) - Steering Column Hood Pin: n/a Door Trigger: Light Green/Red - (-) Above Fuse Panel Door Lock: Green/White - (-) 2 pin connector taped to blue connector behind fuse box Door Unlock: Green/Orange - (-) Module Behind Radio Horn: Grey - Steering Column or GREEN connector behind radio
NOTES: - none -
CRUISE CONTROL: Constant 12V+: White - Ignition Switch Harness or Use Hot Side of Brake Switched 12V+: Black/Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Ground: Use Chassis Near Cruise Control Module Hot Side of Brake: n/a - Brake Switch Cold Side of Brake: Green/White - Brake Switch Tach: Blue - Coil VSS Wire : Blue/White - Driver's Side Dash Footwell, Grey connector.
NOTES: PPM - 4000PPM ROSTRA Control Arm # 250-3421/250-1483 ROSTRA Throttle Adapter #250-4249
Vehicles with Manual Transmission require Clutch Switch. Some vehicles may require a speed signal generator and/or other parts/adapters not listed above. Rostra® Cruise Control module switch settings may differ if you use a speed signal generator or magnets and a pick up coil.
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ALARM, CRUISE CONTROL, and STEREO Wiring Color Codes for 1993 Honda Civic
This FixYa Tip is for the purpose of installing an Alarm, Remote Starter, Cruise Control, and / or Car Stereo into the vehicle listed in the subject line.
The wires listed are the ones you will need to successfully complete the task.
Some vehicles require additional relays and / or modules to bypass factory security. If they are required - it will be in the NOTES section below the wiring colors.
The following FixYa TIP is good for all Honda Civics for the following production years:
1993
STEREO WIRING COLOR CHART:
Constant 12V+: White/Blue Switched 12V+: Yellow/Red Ground: Black Illumination: Red/Black Dimmer: n/a Antenna: Driver's Pillar
Front Speakers: Left Front (+) Blue/Green Left Front (-) Gray/Black Right Front (+) Red/Green Right Front (-) Brown/Black
Rear Speakers: Left Rear (+) Blue/Yellow Left Rear (-) Gray/White Right Rear (+) Red/Yellow Right Rear (-) Brown/White
NOTES: - none -
Additional Accessories:
Metra Brand Dash Kit: n/a Metra Brand Wiring Harness: 70-1720 Metra Brand Antenna Adapter: n/a
ALARM / REMOTE START WIRING CHART:
Constant 12V+: White - Ignition Switch Harness Starter: Black/White - Ignition Switch Harness Ignition: Black/Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Accessory: Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Tach: Blue - Distributor Brake Switch: Green/White - Brake Switch Trunk Pin: Green/Black - (-) Above Fuse Panel (Blue Connector) Parking Lights: Red/Black - (+) Above Fus Panel (White Connector) Head Lamp: Red/White - Steering Column Hood Pin: n/a Factory Disarm: Disarms with Unlock Door Trigger: Green/Red - (-) Driver's Running board Door Lock: Green/White - (-) Driver's Door at Door Lock Module Door Unlock: Green/Red - (-) Driver's Door at Door Lock Module Horn: Blue/Red - Steering Column (Relay Required) Windows UP: LF=Red/Blue RF=Orange/White
NOTES: - none -
CRUISE CONTROL:
Constant 12V+: White - Ignition Switch Harness or Use Hot Side of Brake Switched 12V+: Black/Yellow - Ignition Switch Harness Ground: Use Chassis Near Cruise Control Module Hot Side of Brake: n/a - Brake Switch Cold Side of Brake: Green/White - Brake Switch Tach: Blue - Distributor VSS Wire : Yellow/Blue - Driver's Side Dash Footwell, Grey connector.
NOTES: 4000PPM
Vehicles with Manual Transmission require Clutch Switch. Some vehicles may require a speed signal generator and/or other parts/adapters not listed above. Rostra® Cruise Control module switch settings may differ if you use a speed signal generator or magnets and a pick up coil.
Thanks for using FixYa!! Please see my other tips on GPS, Car Audio, Large Appliances, and more.
If you contact Alpine they will be able to tell you if there is an adapter that will plug right into your existing OEM harness. If not then, you'll have to figure out Which wires are which on your OEM harness, here is the Alpine wire code:
Alpine wiring help
HU harness color code pretty much universal.
red=ignition
yellow=battery +
black=ground
blue/white=remote turn on
blue=power antenna
pink/black=audio interupt in (not sure if you have one) speaker wires
gray=right front
violet=right rear
green=left rear
white=right rear
speaker wire with black stripes is negative.
Its not to hard if u are capable of running wire. First off most aftermarket radios have generally the same wireing red is power to key yellow is power strait to the battery and black is ground now depending on the radio you buy there will be one or two blue wies one with a white line the one blue wire with white line is your power antenna wire if you have a power antenna the other blue wire is for added components like an amp for your subs if you have one. Now there 8 wires that will be green, green/white, purple purple/white, white, white/black, grey, grey/white and those are all your speaker wires front and rear channels. There might be more wires like auto dim and mute and so on but most of the time nobody hooks them up because thay are not needed. Hope this helps good luck.
I'm guessing their fairly universal since they nearly matched 1 to 1 to my new deck: White/Black: Left Front -
White: Left Front Green/Black: Left Rear - Green: Left Rear
Grey/Black: Right Front - Grey: Right Front Violet/Black: Right Rear - Violet: Right Rear Red: 12V Switched Power Black: Ground Blue: Power Antenna Orange: Illumination (not dimmed by switch) Yellow: 12V Constant Power
If replacing you can order a wire harness from crutchfield - worked great for me!
Constant 12v + orange Switched 12v + yellow Ground Black/white illumination grey/black dimmer brown/white antenna trigger dark green left front speaker + tan left front - grey right front + light green right front - dark green left rear + brown left rear - yellow right rear + dark blue right rear - light blue
Radio 12v
orange
+
radio harness
Radio Ground
black
-
radio harness
Radio Ignition
dk. green
+
radio harness
Radio Illumination
brown
+
radio harness
Factory Amp Turn-on
orange
+
radio harness
Notes: The amplifier is behind the glove box.
Power Antenna
N/A
LF Speaker +/-
tan - gray
+,-
radio harness
RF Speaker +/-
lt. green - dk. green
+,-
radio harness
LR Speaker +/-
brown - yellow
+,-
radio harness
RR Speaker +/-
dk. blue - lt. blue
+,-
radio harness
The best solution is to not cut the factory wire harness, and use a wire kit you can get at Walmart. The kit plugs directly into your factory harness and has leads to meet up with an aftermarket radio. As an added bonus aftermarket radios all follow the same wire color schematic so you would wire white to the white, grey to the grey- very easy. However if you are looking at a dash full of cut wires the answer is a little more complicated but can be applied to any car in this situation.
If you are even somewhat familiar with a voltmeter you can trace very wire one by one exluding the power, ground, switched power ect, A good tip for finding speaker leads is to cheat and look at the speakers in your car the wires that are connected to them should be the same as the ones behind the dash. Problem solved. Here are some other ideas and keep in mind most of these solutions are offered as a method to solve this problem in any number of vehicles, Its like the difference between giving someone a fish or teaching him to fish. I did however give a solution that only requires a trip to your local car audio shop - if you just don't want to mess with it.
You can visit your local car stereo dealer and talk him into telling you, even if they don't know they will most likely be subscribed to a phone-in, dvd, and/or fax information service dedicated to providing wire color details and locations for 99% of vehicles out there. (I have used a similar service and found it very useful-especially for brand new cars that nobody knows anything about yet.)
Or you can visit the local junkyard find your harness and match it up with the Walmart one and get a working stereo and a repaired wiring problem. The Walmart harness is probably $10 & the junkyard one would probably be the same.
Or even still if your budget is non-existant you could still go to the junkyard and write down what wire goes to what pin, then travel over to Walmart and do the same in reverse writing down the coresponding pin to wire color. All for free!
And finally the wire colors on your after market deck should be as follows
White - front left positive speaker or for short FLP
White/black - FLN (front left negitive)
Grey - FRP
Grey/black - FRN
Violet - RRP (rear right positive)
Violet/black - RRN
Green - RLP (rear left positve)
Green/black - RLN
Yellow - Constant positive or to battery positive (either way use a non-switched positive so the radio will keep its memory)
Red - Switched positive lead or to ignition positive
Black - Chassis Ground
Blue or Blue/white - Some radio's are different - but one will be to control the power antenna, and will only turn on when the fm radio is used. The other will be the amplifier turn on lead.
Orange - dimmer input lead, used to dim the face of the deck when you turn your headlights
There are some variances and some radios may have more leads or less. But these are the basics.Good luck and please feel free to ask for more information.
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