Posted by: tfabris
Finding the type of Honda stereo from the front? - 13/05/2003 10:43
My wife's 1998 Honda CR-V has a factory CD player with an option for adding a trunk-mounted CD changer or a half-din tape player.
I'm not planning on installing either of those things at the moment, but I would like to use its CD changer input as an aux-in, in anticipation of the next Rio hard disk portable. The folks at www.rcainput.com have adapters just for this purpose.
The problem is that I need to know whether the factory stereo has an 8-pin input or a 14-pin input on the back. If I don't know this ahead of time, I'll likely buy the wrong adapter.
Okay, fine, I'll look back there and see which it is. I head over to www.installdr.com and see if they've got dash-dismantling instructions. Ah, they do, and it even looks like the right dash in their photos (although the stereo is a different one). Oh my God, it's like trying to break into fort knox. I have to take most of the dash apart just to get to the place where I can unscrew the stereo and look behind it.
Okay, it's a given that I'm going to have to dismantle her dash to install the RCA input adapter, but that's a mega-big job just to "have a look" and then close it up again. I'd rather just dismantle it once for the installation.
Does anyone know where I can find out what kind of connecters her stereo has on the back, based on the stereo's appearance from the front?
I'm not planning on installing either of those things at the moment, but I would like to use its CD changer input as an aux-in, in anticipation of the next Rio hard disk portable. The folks at www.rcainput.com have adapters just for this purpose.
The problem is that I need to know whether the factory stereo has an 8-pin input or a 14-pin input on the back. If I don't know this ahead of time, I'll likely buy the wrong adapter.
Okay, fine, I'll look back there and see which it is. I head over to www.installdr.com and see if they've got dash-dismantling instructions. Ah, they do, and it even looks like the right dash in their photos (although the stereo is a different one). Oh my God, it's like trying to break into fort knox. I have to take most of the dash apart just to get to the place where I can unscrew the stereo and look behind it.
Okay, it's a given that I'm going to have to dismantle her dash to install the RCA input adapter, but that's a mega-big job just to "have a look" and then close it up again. I'd rather just dismantle it once for the installation.
Does anyone know where I can find out what kind of connecters her stereo has on the back, based on the stereo's appearance from the front?