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In my 97 Civic Ex, my dome lights refuse to come on when I open my doors.
I have to manually switch it to the "on" position, and they work fine.
Yes, I have tried it in the middle position too xD but they won't turn on for some reason.
What should I do/check?

 
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check the door trigger to see if the ground is still good. or it might be broken. should be a nipple looking thing near where the door closes against the car body

 
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Alright man, will do!
I'll let you know in the morning what I find.
It's freezing outside >_<

 
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So, I unscrewed the "nipple" and all I saw was some sort of plastic connector, and a green wire leading from it.
Where is the ground at?

 
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its grounded through the screw to the door frame. so make sure there is no rust or corrosion around that area. could be just a bad ground.

 
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I didn't see any rust or anything.
The switch pushes in just fine too.
Hmmm, is there anything else that could cause it?

 
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If you replaced the stock head unit it disables the dome light when the doors open but the dome light will still work. Thats what happened with my 97 ex. I'm not 100% sure but i think the stock head unit controls all that stuff.

 
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Ahh! Why didn't I think of that X_X
Thanks man.
I'm guessing the only way to bypass this would be to mount my old headunit somewhere.

 
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yeah and the keyless entry if you have it. crazy why they did that for those year civic

 
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My stock headunit is still mounted behind my center counsol for that reason.

 
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Well, how would I go about running both?
I know the connector that needs to be hooked to the stock unit, but do I need to get some juice to it too?

 
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well what i did with mine was run separate power and ground wires for the good deck. so that would be easy for your situation. just plug the harness to the stock radio and run your aftermarket with independent power and ground. i believe the factory deck just has to be getting power to activate the dome light and keyless. so you can just cut and splice the speaker wires to your new deck.

 
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I think there's a Bypass Module but i'm not sure. Anyone?