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Nice tutorial. However I'm wondering if anyone has tips on removing that center panel around the shifter in a manual? Basically step 2 for a 5speed.
Mine just won't budge, I pull and pull but it seems like any more force and it's going to snap in half. After seeing the unit with a snapped plate I'm doing my best to avoid such results. Just for reference mine does have an armrest.
Any advice?
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Let me bump this a little. I don't get why you all are taking out the thing around the shifter. I looked at mine today and the thing where the cigarette lighter was just popped out with no problems and I had access to the two bolts on the bottom. What am I missing?
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hey thanks for the tut couldnt have gotton as far as i did without it
but i have some questions i think i might have messed up the stock wiring harness (the blue connector that plugs into the stock radio or the wiring converter for aftermarket head unit)
When i was putting my new head unit in i hooked up all the wiring stuff and i turned the car on and it worked fine, then i put the whole thing back into the dash and went to turn the car on again and the fuse blew, so i replaced the fuse with a brand new one. Now the new head unit still doesn't work, the only thing i can think of is that blue connector piece.
Is there anyway around that blue connecter like pulling the wires out some how and splicing them straight to the wire converter for the new head unit? or order a new connector?
well i know the wiring adapter is'nt the problem, because even when i put the stock head unit back in it doesnt work. but at first i thought it might have been so i made sure that they were touching and had electrical tape on them.
well ive check and rechecked the fuses multiple times. If its not the ACC radio fuse then what other fuse could it be? ive checked other but not all of them.
well i know the wiring adapter is'nt the problem, because even when i put the stock head unit back in it doesnt work. but at first i thought it might have been so i made sure that they were touching and had electrical tape on them.
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but at first i thought it might have been so i made sure that they were touching and had electrical tape on them.
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and had electrical tape on them.
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electrical tape
I found your problem. Never use electric tape to join wires, always solder and heat shrink.
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Let me bump this a little. I don't get why you all are taking out the thing around the shifter. I looked at mine today and the thing where the cigarette lighter was just popped out with no problems and I had access to the two bolts on the bottom. What am I missing?
01 is a little different from the others. If you look into radio disassembly on an 04 you'll see the steps are quite a bit more involved than your 01.
Not sure how much exposure this will get, but: For anyone doing this on an Acura EL, I spent over an hour trying to get the shifter assembly off. It does not pull up, the entire center console comes out instead.
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The orange wire from teh headunit for illummination, where does it hook to for the ilummination to work?
Sometimes not all the wires match up. If you don't have an illumination wire in your harness or on your radio, then just leave it. Make sure it's covered so it doesn't ground out unexpectedly but it doesn't need to be hooked up.
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