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Honda Receiver Wire Harness

For select 1996-98 vehicles with factory keyless entry

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This vehicle-specific wiring harness makes connections between your new car stereo and your car's electrical system.

First, attach the color-coded wires on your Crutchfield harness to the wires from your new stereo. If you don't know how to use a soldering iron, we recommend that you purchase some wire connectors that you'll use to attach the Crutchfield harness to your factory harness.

Now, once this harness is connected to your new stereo, you'll be able to plug right into your car's factory radio connector. This harness makes installing your new stereo easier, and allows you to put the factory radio back when you sell your vehicle or return it at the end of the lease. A detailed instruction sheet comes with the harness. Warranty: 60 days.

Please read this important note: This harness may not contain provisions for every wire needed to complete your installation, and it will not accommodate special navigation, video, or factory steering wheel control connections. You will need a special adapter if you want your factory steering wheel audio controls to work with your new stereo.

Connections:

Note: In order to retain your factory keyless entry functionality, you'll need to keep your factory radio, and relocate it inside your dash behind the lower trim panel. This harness has two plugs - one connects to the factory wiring, and the second plugs into the factory radio to provide power to it. If you remove the factory radio, you will lose your factory keyless entry feature.

  • 12V constant power
  • 12V switched power
  • chassis ground
  • power antenna turn-on
  • dimmer
  • left front speaker +/-
  • right front speaker +/-
  • left rear speaker +/-
  • right rear speaker +/-
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Note: Most vehicles will require additional installation parts — please identify your vehicle if you haven’t done so, then check here for a list of parts. You can also call an Advisor for more information.

 

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  • Receiver wiring harness (with 2 plugs)
  • Instructions

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Crutchfield Wiring Harness: Crutchfield wiring harnesses prevent you from having to cut your vehicle's factory radio plug when replacing your factory radio with an aftermarket head unit. Simply solder or crimp the Crutchfield wiring harness to your aftermarket head unit's harness (solder & crimps not included), plug the aftermarket head unit's plug into the rear chassis of the aftermarket head unit, and plug the Crutchfield wiring harness into your vehicle's factory radio plug.

Note: Installation tools, hardware, & accessories are not included & sold separately. Please see the Accessories tab for recommendations & availability.

Wiring Notes: If the Crutchfield wiring harness is not equipped with a ground wire, you will need to ground the aftermarket head unit's ground wire to the metal chassis of your vehicle. Some vehicle's may require you to bypass the vehicle's factory amplifier (in another location from factory radio) or hardwire certain connections. If your vehicle is equipped with factory steering wheel controls, an additional adapter is required and sold separately.

Special Harness Function: This harness is required for select Honda vehicles that have factory keyless entry built into the factory radio. When replacing the factory radio with an aftermarket head unit, you will need to relocate the factory radio behind the lower dash trim panel in order to retain the keyless entry function. This harness includes a plug that provides constant and switched power and ground to power the factory radio.

Wire Code Chart:

Wire Color Function
Plug 1 (connects to vehicle's receiver harness in the dash)
Red +12 Volt Accessory These wires provide a jumper from Plug 1 to Plug 2
Yellow +12 Volt Constant
Black Chassis Ground
Blue Power Antenna
Orange/White Dimmer
White Left Front Speaker +
White/Black Left Front Speaker -
Gray Right Front Speaker +
Gray/Black Right Front Speaker -
Green Left Rear Speaker +
Green/Black Left Rear Speaker -
Violet Right Rear Speaker +
Violet/Black Right Rear Speaker -
Plug 2 (connects to factory radio)
Red +12 Volt Accessory
Yellow +12 Volt Constant
Black Chassis Ground

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5 out of 5

Very nice

Written By Vince, Chicago IL. on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Installed in a 1997 Honda Civic
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Installing the reciever with this wiring harness was a breeze
Pros:
Very easy install
Cons:
None
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5 out of 5

1997 civic deck swap

Written By Bobby, Owasso OK on Sunday, January 06, 2013
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Easy to wire up and shipped to my door quickly.
Pros:
Match color to color and great price.
Cons:
None
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5 out of 5

Yes!!!!!

Written By Anonymous, Ohio on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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Literally the best online purchase of my life. Item shipped fast. I installed in under 30 minutes and it allowed me to tuck the stock radio behind the dash, and use my aftermarket one. It came with instructions for the whole install and works like a charm!!!! So happy! thank you Crutchfield excellent service!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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5 out of 5

Made life so much easier

Written By Oscar, Chino Hills, CA on Sunday, February 26, 2012
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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Made my install so much easier for my 1998 Honda Civic EX .
Pros:
Works perfect.
Cons:
NONE
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5 out of 5

Easy wiring

Written By t, Northern VA on Monday, July 11, 2011
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This harness made installing the new stereo very easy. All you do is hook up the new stereo to the harness and plug it in! Worked like a charm. Thanks Crutchfield!
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4 out of 5

Did not need to keep the old deck

Written By Martymann, Fresno, CA on Sunday, November 28, 2010
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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I did not need to keep my old Honda stereo behind the gloove box as I was told for my
auto unlock to work on my 98 Civic. Overall it was esy to install. I ecommand that you
remove the old Civic deck and see if you locks still work, if so then you don't need to
keep the old deck behind the dash.
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4 out of 5

Works great

Written By mslongjr, Austin, TX on Monday, August 23, 2010
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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This harness did a fine job of connecting my new Sony to the old factory radio (needed to
preserve keyless entry functions) and to the factory wiring in the dash. Note that you'll still
need a soldering iron or a set of wire connectors to connect the harness to the wiring from
your aftermarket radio, however.
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2 out of 5

Honda Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Anonymous, Naperville, IL on Monday, January 11, 2010
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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Unfortunately the instructions assumed the manufacturer's original radio was still in operation and had not already been replaced by a previous owner of the auto with an Alpine unit. This is likely my error. Therefore instead of rewiring the system using the Crutchfield provided harness; instead cut the existing radio's connection to the harness already in place and soldered the Dual radio's connecter to the interface plug wiring. All is working flawlessly.
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5 out of 5

Honda Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Todd, Waxhaw, NC on Friday, February 20, 2009
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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This wiring harness was extremely helpful and made the installation of my new reciever a snap. The only advice that would have been helpful and saved me some trouble would have been to have known that the radio that is being replaced also has the seperate cassette player, the cassette player needs to be removed also to make room for the factory radio to be stored if you have keyless entry.
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5 out of 5

Life made easy

Written By Eric, New Braunfels, Texas on Sunday, January 25, 2009
Installed in a 1997 Honda Civic
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This harness was a tremendous aid in installing our new head unit. We soldered all of the connections with shrink tubing for protection but it could just as easily been done with crimped connectors. Only suggestion would be to include the connectors...
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5 out of 5

Honda Wiring Harness

Written By Ritchie, 94538 on Friday, September 19, 2008
Installed in a 1997 Honda Civic
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Excellent wiring harness for my car and it's perfect fit no cutting wires and it's easy installation with my new head unit..
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5 out of 5

makes instalation easy

Written By Mike, columbia, pa on Monday, September 15, 2008
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
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if you want an easy installation, this is for you
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5 out of 5

Honda Receiver Wire Harness

Written By ALAADDIN, daytona beach florida on Saturday, February 16, 2008
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
 
thank you it was a prefect fit for my car
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5 out of 5

Perfect fit, clean solution, some assembly required

Written By Dennis, Richmond, VA on Friday, October 21, 2005
Installed in a 1998 Honda Civic
 
I bought this for and fitted this into my wife's 1998 Honda Civic EX. The harness is just the right length to fit the old stereo down in front of the shifter (and keep the keyless entry) and the fit of the connectors is superb. The instructions were very clear and make the mate to the stereo harness very easy. I would recommend soldering the wires of this harness with the wires from your radio harness for the cleanest look; you could also use inline crimped wire connectors to keep things fairly neat looking.

When you move the factory radio, make sure you remove the faceplate to keep it from turning on and work on it to get it as far down into the hole behind the cigarette lighter as possible. I found that wrapping the old stereo as described in the included instructions was not an option as it makes fitting the stereo in the hole too difficult. I made a cardboard face to cover the hole left when the faceplate was taken off and that worked fine.
18 out of 21 people found this helpful
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