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...And it didn't come out too bad either IMO. Only problem is that I couldn't figure out how to illuminate the backlight for the buttons. There are some empty pins on the harness, but none of them seem to work when I tried to power them up. I liked the look of it because it is black, and I had the SE head unit in before but the silver didn't go too well with the interior.

Anyway the Versa radio had all the features that I wanted... 6 CD/MP3, aux input, RDS and it sounded really good too. If anyone else thinks they want to try this in their car their going to need to get a harness for the radio Metra 71-7552 (Nissan Maxima/Versa harness) and an antenna adapter 40-NI22. I then made a little trim ring to fill in the gap around the radio (since it was smaller). The radio screws in using the factory honda brackets. You're gonna have to figure out how to illuminate the buttons though, I gave up on it... I am going to get something else...


Anyway time for the pics...



The buttons would have matched the dash lights really well...

 
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Wow, that looks very nice. Good job.

 
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clean job

 
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that looks pretty cool...too bad you couldn't get the backlighting to work though...+1 for the effort

 
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wow great job! looks way better than the silver stock one. and imo it looks cleaner at night without all the tons of buttons lighting up.

 
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Yeah but it makes it kind of hard to see what I am doing if I can't see the buttons...lol

 
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Looks good, its a very clean install Would've really cool to get the lights to work but eh.

Why not go aftermarket tho?

 
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I'm sure if you keep working you can figure out the back lighting....

Good job man.

 
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did you get it for really cheap or something?

wouldn't the special edition civic deck give you the same thing and be a lot easier to install?

 
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I had the SE Head unit before and wasn't digging the silver. I wanted to try something different and came across a Versa Radio. It's just like installing an aftermarket deck, with a little custom work. Just thought I'd show you all something different.

 
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ic, thats cool.

props for the pics.

 
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thats awesome bro..hey exhaust is going on the 15th...(personal delays are driving me crazy) that looks cool....how else do u think u could get the buttons to be illuminated? id liek to try sumthing liek that. ive kept my stock radio even when i had a system..i dont like how it looks when u put in an aftermarket stereo...it looks kind of i duno..cheapy or somethign, but that looks sooo clean ..good job!

 
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(Delays) Tell me about it...lol. I was ready to get that exhaust put on, and well.. you saw my car. I got that fixed though . I have thrown everything in the book at it to try to get the buttons to illuminate, but no dice. In the factory Nissan Versa radio harness there is a wire that is for illumination (orange), well I tried putting 12V to the empty pin in the aftermarket harness, and well no luck. There are like 3 other plugs that are empty that could contain the illumination wire, but there are so many variables involved. Like it could be a negative switch or something...I dunno, I hate Nissan electrical stuff...lol!




The illum. wire could be in either of those empty plugs, but I'm not about to sit here and test each of them. trust me, I have searched everywhere, asked everyone, and nobody seems to know.

 
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nice job! it could almost pass for a stock civic radio... NICE!

 
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Beast and the Harlot??!?!?!?!?!?!?

 
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just test all the pins

 
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You got it.


I tested all the pins...some put out low voltage 5V, and some read as grounds. There are those tiny pins but are hard to test with a meter.

 
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just put 12V on all of them until something lights up! j/k

nice install. what are the versa's from?

 
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Nissan Versa, you know those little ****-box looking things. Apparently they have nice stereos in them though


Thanks everyone for the comments.

 
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looks clean. excellent job my man. yeah it would look better with red lights, but thats a lot of work

 
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yeah, i do know now that you say it. i thought "Versa" was some new knock-off foreign company that made cheap stuff like Hyundai.