I’ve got a 1994 Honda Accord sedan and want to replace the car stereo. I ordered a new one from Crutchfield yesterday and it’s coming with an installation kit and instructions. I figure that it can’t be that hard to do. Has anyone done this themself either on an Accord or something else? How hard is it? Any advice?
Piece of cake. If you ordered the wire-harness adapter also, it will be as easy as making toast. Crutchfield will most likely include model specific installation instructions and you will have no problems.
Have fun and enjoy the new tunes!
(I’ve put in more car stereos than I care to remember. I have used Crutchfield and been very impressed with thier “Jimmy”)
Thanks. They’re sending the wire harness adapter has part of the order. How do you remove the factory stereo anyhow? I’d been leery of doing this myself because I imagined it was necessary to disassemble the dashboard. But the Crutchfield website mentioned some clips and that they provide the tool necessary to remove the existing stereo.
My brother’s '97 ('94-97 is same basic design). He says open the center console and you’ll see a little door that pops out. There is 1 or 2 screws that come out and once you remove that piece you can check out the workings on the dash itself. He says getting the console’s panel out of the way first is the only hard part. After that everything unscrews or pops out from the dash.
I ordered a stereo from Crutchfield for my '90 Accord, and the harness adapter works great.
I had to remove the center console and the ashtray. No big deal, really, and it gave me a chance to vacuum. It was pretty dirty under there.
Anyway, the factory radio was held in with a bracket which bolted by the bottom rear of the radio. I had to do a little creative fabrication to get the bracket attached to the new radio sleeve at the right height, but your '94 might be different.
If you have a radio with a DIN connecter (2 small holes on each side of the faceplate), it’ll be easy. That might be the clips they mentioned. Slide the old radio out, attach your harness from the new radio, and pop the new radio in.
There should be a wiring diagram somewhere on or behind the factory radio. Make sure the harness lines up correctly - I had to switch 2 sets of wires around.