Add BLUETOOTH to Car CD Player Stereo | Vintage OEM Radio Mod
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2025
- How to add BLUETOOTH (or aux input) on an older 90s era stock CD player car stereo. This video specifically focuses on OEM Honda/Acura CD players from the late 90s found in many different models (Civic, CL, Accord, Integra), but you could adapt this concept to any cd player car stereo of the era.
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🔗 Convenient product links for the bluetooth module I used and everything else you need to do this are now in the video description!
FINALLY, the video I've been looking for. Doing this to a late 90s Clarion car CD player and I couldn't find a single thing online about the switching or how to get it to override the other sources. Thank you for the well detailed video! You posted this just in time for me.
Every time I drive this car I'm listening to my music this way and it has been working well and sounds great. You can even use google maps on your phone to read you out directions over bluetooth through your car speakers!
Hello bro. I need help identifying a 2000 civic 1xxo motherboard . Can u help me please?
@@alexzamora6700 I can try, DM me on insta (link on my youtube page) with your question or what you're trying to figure out and I'll see what I can do.
Hello
I will pay if you could do this for my 87 Toyota Camry Cassette deck, do you put these Bluetooth’s installed for people???
Criminally underrated channel, can't wait to do this to my 97 hatch
Thank you! This is exactly the guide I’ve been looking for to perform a similar modification on the OEM CD/Radio on my 2001 Mazda. Let’s hope the CD inputs are marked on the main board as they are on your Acura.
Thinking a little ahead, I imagine the most difficult part of this job will be to burn a silent audio file onto a blank CD. I think my last laptop with a CD drive was binned many years ago.
you can still buy external USB CD burners and CD-Rs on Amazon for relatively cheap.
Cool. I already have this from years ago. I'll add it to my old stereo tomorrow
Where would I find the labeling for my circut board if its not labeled with what is what
Would soldering the power and ground wires straight to the cd player eliminate the ground loop?
Probably, but I dont recommend that unless you really know what you're doing. I tried doing that on one of these and it shorted something and ruined the motherboard. Unit worked for a bit then started showing error codes. Thats why I get power externally now, less risk of screwing something up and ruining your radio.
Hi, great video.
I noticed of the solder points is labeled CD Mute.
Would it be possible to use that to silence the cd audio so you wouldn’t have to use the silent track?
I don't think so, I recommend against tapping into any pins on the CD socket other than audio channels and ground I've seen it cause permanent issues with the motherboard ruining the unit
If you hardwired the chip onto the board of the radio itself without using any wires that you plug in like the micro USB and where you wired in to the cigarette lighter, then you wouldn’t need the ground isolator
Hi,
really great video, I was able to learn from it what to do so that it works on my own radio unit.
I think it's very nice that I'm not the only one who wants to keep the contemporary look of the radio in the car.
But I have a question: Well, it worked and I was able to bring in the bluetooth signal via the cassette connection to the speaker of my car. But I have a lot of interference noise.
Do you have any ideas where the noise could come from?
Thanks a lot
Did you use an inline noise supressor like I did in the video? Its probably ground loop interference
This was my problem, disconnecting the ground to between the bluetooth module and stereo worked for me
Any ideas how I can locate the cassette audio outputs on the PCB if it’s not labeled? Can’t find the schematic either. I’ve got one of those cigar lighter plug in Bluetooth 5.3 hands free calling adapters but would rather hardwire it to the cassette inputs of my 1996 DelcoBose head unit.
What if I disconnect only the audio output connection from the CD rom and connect it to the bluetooth thing. It would still function right and we won’t need the isolator thing if do that. Right (I’m asking 😂)
Great video thank you. Just a thought, instead of soldering wires onto the radio circuit board would it be possible to solder the wires to the wires on the 8/12 pin socket of the CD stacker in the trunk. I just wondered if this would work as it would save me removing the radio and the soldering would not be such a delicate operation. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards Anthony
I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work, in fact, its something I've thought about and wanted to try, but my car doesn't have a CD changer so it wasn't an option for me. If I ever acquire a car like this with a CD changer I will definitely try it. Let me know how it goes if you give it a go 👍
Thank you, you've spurred me on to give it a go. I presume, like you, I'll have to leave the CD wired up and splice to the original wires and insert a blank CD. Only other problem is sorting out what wire does what but I'm sure Google will help. I'll let you know how I get on. Won't be for a week or two as its too cold here at the moment.
@@anthonywbelcher Yes, there's no other way to my knowledge to activate the CD channel without actually playing a CD. You need to burn a silent audio track on the CD and set it to play on repeat. Also, make the track as long as the CD will hold because every time the track restarts the audio cuts out for a split second, so it would get annoying if you burn a short 2 minute track, but if you burn a long track so it only happens every 45 minutes or more of driving you don't really even notice it.
Thank you very much for your help 🤞 I'll have a go and let you know how I get on 🤞
@@anthonywbelcher? Did it work?
I did almost the same thing, but not at all (lol).
Brand new radio with e 3.5mm jack, as one of my cars didnt have a radio at all when I bought it and the other one had no clear left and right cannels from the cassette reader. Then I used a bluetooth receiver that is supposed to be an external USB powered and hooked to the 3.5mm jack. But instead of having it hanging out of the radio, I soldered it directly into the channels and even used the 5V rails inside the radios to power up the board, avoiding the need of a 12 to 5V adapter. Also I was able to secure them with a screw, as they had enough free PCB to put a hole into. And even that they are inside the metal casing of the radios, the receivers have a range of about 3-4 meters or 6-7ft.
At the moment I am facing some small sound warping at some frequencies, that I can hear on some songs. Both radios are JVC, but 2-3 years appart as a model, also the modules are from different vendors from Aliexpress/Ebay and one of them doesnt even connect automatically to my phone. I will try to get a different type of receiver to hopefully resolve the connectivity and the sound issues.
Thats cool! On the single din CD players you usually cant fit the modules inside because the Cd drive takes up so much room. I also seem to have issues whenever I try to take 5v power from the motherboard on cd players, yet it works fine for me on cassette player units. It may just be something I was doing wrong. I highley recommend the bluetooth module I used in this video, I literally bought like 8 different ones and tried them all and this one was the best by far. Many of them would distort.
Hey I am meeting the same problem as you with the anti theft version of your autoradio ( mine is a mistusbishi w142 ) how do you find the left right and ground from the cd player pins on the motherboard
I’m wondering if you could went it threw the circle 8pin plug on the back the radio
So that plug is for the CD changer accessory, I wanted to try that, but I can not find anyway to make the radio switch to that as an input without it actually being hooked up and talking to the CD changer, so unless you actually have an OEM CD changer that you can plug in, I don't think its possible. But you find a way, I'd love to know!
Can you add link 🔗 of products mention?? for this improve quality instead of using Bluetooth transmitters through FM?
Ok Ill try to find some links to add to the description soon. Yes I would say its better quality than an FM transmitter in my opinion.
@@AcuraAdvice thank you 👍🏻💯
@@alexpadillayt Sorry it took so long, but if you still need them or for anyone else reading this I finally now have links in the description :)
@@AcuraAdvicethank you for letting me know
Was able to get it working but the only issue I have is the max volume is still very very low 😅
Which bluetooth board did you use? I had that issue with some of the boards i tested. You do also want to have you phone volume up pretty high for the board to get a hot enough signal
@ my phone was maxed, I used a product from maker hawk, they had 4.5 starts from 500 reviews so I figured they had to be good lol. I bought another module from another manufacturer just in case so I’m going to install that one and see if it’s any begger
@@BI-xs9id I recommend the MH-M28 board. I tested a whole bunch of them before I made this video and that was by far the best one for quality and output volume
@ I tested the other one and still same issue, either the points are well soldered or they are not the right ones. The radio I have is from a 5th gen prelude and I couldn’t find anything other than someone doing it on their like 05 civic and the boards looked exactly the same. I then did it on my 99 accord cassette player where the points were labeled and it worked like normal, was a little static because my soldering isn’t good but I fixed it haha
Do you think that the sound quality is worse now that it’s Bluetooth? Do you think an aux would sound better?
I think the sound is about the same provided you use a good bluetooth module, I tested a few that sounded terrible before I settled on the one I used. You could easily just solder in an longer aux cord using this method and run it outside your dash if you dont want to bother with the bluetooth stuff
@@AcuraAdvice any tips on how to source out a good quality one?
@@CAMRONlamarramsey I have the one I used linked in the video description, I tested about 6 or 7 of them and found that one to be the best
Is there Bluetooth module that I could order with mic input so I could have Bluetooth calling?
I think so, I'm pretty sure I've seen ones on Amazon that have bluetooth calling, I've never tested one of them though
Having a lot of trouble finding the manual for my cd player and l9oking at the board i cant tell which pins are for the right and left channel any advice?
What model radio are you using?
instead of using the cd, can you use the AM part of the board? since i dont have a cd to burn
I'm sure this could be done, but you would have to figure out where the AM channel input is on the motherboard.
I keep getting an error on my CD with a silent track. It only works with a store bought cd with music files on it. The bluetooth audio overpowers the music playing in the background but I'd like to figure out how to get it to work on a blank track.
Made sure the silent track was a .WAV file and tried a 1x burn rate.
Does the cd have to be a CD-R? I've been using a CD-RW.
@@dc5obsessions CD-RW will not work. In my experience older CD readers cannot play CD-RW, you need to use CD-R, also make sure you are using some kind of CD burning software that can burn the file as a CD audio track, old CD players can't read data CDs.
can you do this on the radio 6000cd rds eon , from ford? or does it only work on this radio model and variations of this model?
This can be adapted to work on any radio, you just gotta figure out where the CD channel inputs are on the radio motherboard.
I tired to do this mode but when I pop in the burnt cd it doesn’t read when I burn the cd what formate does it have to be in
You have burn it as an old school audio disc (either using a CD burning program, which is easy to download for free, or some audio production software can do this too), like how we used to burn mix CDs back in the day when CD burning first came out (not sure if you're old enough to have done that or not, if not ask someone who grew up in the 90s/00s, we all did it lol) you can't just burn mp3 or Wav files onto a disc, because then its a data CD, which a 90s CD drive will not read. Also make sure you're using a CD-R and not a CD-RW
Yes I got it to work I had to take the cd drive out and clean the eye I guess it had a small amount of dust on it everything works perfect now just from time to time it will stop playing for half a second then continue on it own
@@jovanduclair5412 From what I understand, the longer your empty audio file is, the less often you'll hear that blip of silence.
Can i contact u directly? Because i had 2 head units, which one radio and tape head units and the other one is a 6 cd changer head unit..
Can it still play audio from the Cd itself?
Yes
hello, are you still able to use the cigarette lighter port to charge your phone
Yes
thanks for the reply man, one question though, i’m not really familiar with burning disks or whatever but what did you use to make the cd blank for a longer time before it repeats
so I shouldn't have said the word blank. You need to burn a silent audio track onto the CD. Like when we used to burn audio CDs back in the early 2000s except put one track with a silent audio on it. Most CDs will hold about 40 minutes of audio. If you are not old enough like I am to have done this back in the day lol maybe google it I'm sure someone has a tutorial. Either find a silent audio file online or record a silent track or if it would be helpful I could put a link in the description for the audio file I made to do this for people to download. Then you will need some kind of software that can burn CDs (there are plenty of free ones you can download online) then you simple drag your silent audio file into your cd burner software and burn it as an audio cd. And obviously your computer will need to have a cd burner, I realize computers now days don't have those, I bought an external usb cd/dvd burner drive that I can plug into my imac. Hope this helps, I feel like an old man now, lol.
Does it automatically connect to your phone every time you get in?
Yes it does!
@@AcuraAdvice Thanks! I just bought one. Do you know of anyway to get rid of the voice that says you're connected when it turns on?
Do you need to use CD with "empty" track?
You need to burn a silent audio track onto a CD
does a blank CD has to be in it? in order for it to work?
Yes, and I should clarify, not a blank CD, you have to burn a silent audio track on it so the CD player has a valid track to play, which is the only way to activate the CD audio channels. You need to burn one long silent track, and set it to repeat.
@@AcuraAdvice nice I appreciate that. I figured Ill ask, because i been researching this in order to mod my RSX radio.
the cd room would not work until there is a cd inside
how yo solve it ?
Put a cd in it!
What module did you use to do this?
MH-M28 is the model. I actually just added product links for it and everything else I used in the video description :)
Can you still use FM radio ? After doing this?
Yes radio circuit is unaffected and still works normal. The CD player even still works too if you just put in a normal cd and have nothing paired to it
@@AcuraAdvice thank you 👍🏻☺️
this kinda ruins your CD player though, doesnt it?
No it still works you can still play normal cds if you dont pair your phone
You can buy a MODULATOR for around 10 bucks or even cheaper ---- plug it into your car's lighter socket and run the tuner on your radio --- it will lock onto the frequency and connect your BLUE TOOTH function on your phone in less than 30 seconds -----
Yeah but they don’t sound as good from what I’ve tried
Sounds like crap tho
Just delete your lazy, crappy sounding comment!
There ok if you only stay in one place often their interference
Been there, done that, it sucks. When you live in an area with a crowded FM band, its impossible to find a channel that doesn't have some static.