ok i bought a pretty decent 98 civic ex from some used car lot last year and i come to find out that this car'e electrical is totally f**ked.
1. main dash wiring harness was cut when aftermarket radio was installed by them.
2. my gauge cluster is completely out. can't see how fast im going at night but signals and stuff still light up as well as the climate control and radio, and defroster buttons etc. the dimmer switch still dims the lights on the dash and the cruise control lights up but my cruise control won't work anymore.
3. so i replaced it with the harness from a 97 civic, but now i come to find out that that harness was simi-cut also. the previous owner had soldered the green/black wire with the green/red wire using a little piece of the orange dimmer wire from another harness. why that was done, i don't know!
but i bought a factory keyless entry system and installed it with the factory radio that i purchased at the beginning of the month. and the radio works fine, but i cant get it to program the remote. it won't go into programming mode when i hold the valet button, the door locks don't cycle. but when i plug in the radio the red light on the front of the radio blinks once then goes off.
so i unplugged my battery again to see if it would reset the computer, and when i left to go to work this morning my srs light didn't go off, it jus stays on now.
how can i fix this?
so im kinda at a loss right now, cuz im a practicing minimalist and i want my car to have that stock look, stock wheels, maybe dropped a couple inches, no tint jus clean ya know?
alot of u guys know alot so any ideas are so helpful alt this point. (smart-asses click the X in the top right corner (top left if ur on a mac like me) of the window and respond. )
thanx in advance.
1. main dash wiring harness was cut when aftermarket radio was installed by them.
2. my gauge cluster is completely out. can't see how fast im going at night but signals and stuff still light up as well as the climate control and radio, and defroster buttons etc. the dimmer switch still dims the lights on the dash and the cruise control lights up but my cruise control won't work anymore.
3. so i replaced it with the harness from a 97 civic, but now i come to find out that that harness was simi-cut also. the previous owner had soldered the green/black wire with the green/red wire using a little piece of the orange dimmer wire from another harness. why that was done, i don't know!
but i bought a factory keyless entry system and installed it with the factory radio that i purchased at the beginning of the month. and the radio works fine, but i cant get it to program the remote. it won't go into programming mode when i hold the valet button, the door locks don't cycle. but when i plug in the radio the red light on the front of the radio blinks once then goes off.
so i unplugged my battery again to see if it would reset the computer, and when i left to go to work this morning my srs light didn't go off, it jus stays on now.
how can i fix this?
so im kinda at a loss right now, cuz im a practicing minimalist and i want my car to have that stock look, stock wheels, maybe dropped a couple inches, no tint jus clean ya know?
alot of u guys know alot so any ideas are so helpful alt this point. (smart-asses click the X in the top right corner (top left if ur on a mac like me) of the window and respond. )
thanx in advance.