Well it took me about 3 hours not rushing at all and got some new radio controls wired in to my wheel found at a junk yard, make sure the wheel u pull the controls off of matches ur current wheel exactly if u go that route ie 2 spoke or 3 spoke. I was able to get a few extra connectors and cut the clock spring harness at the junk yard and bust it apart to get the pins out, remember the key portion of the pins goes away from the clip side of the harness when u go to re install it. I would take a pair of needle nose pliers and GENTLY push/guide the pins in make sure it’s full seated in before walking away from it also. Brother your video is a life saver! Thanks so much! God bless!
I bought the audio controls for my 2010 Honda Civic LX and soon realized that the aftermarket radio was not registering the controls. After buying a unnecessary CANBUS wiring harness, I scoured TH-cam and learned of the CLOCK SPRING and the necessary wiring. I replaced the original clock spring and added the 2 wires (disassembled an audio kit from AliExpress). The headunit learned all the new buttons. This video was very helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'm in the middle of this project and the shots you took of the back of each harness connector were exactly what I needed to clarify a DIY write-up on a forum I had read through. Looking forward to having this project done! Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this. I was able to install the steering wheel audio controls on my 2009 civic sedan LX. Hardest part was to depin the two wires from the EX harness. WORKS LIKE A CHARM
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I did This Install On My 2007 Honda Civic LX. Bought A used 2011 Hybrid Steering Wheel With Controls and wired it a bit differently since I have a aftermarket android radio install but everything works perfectly! 💯
Attention!!! If some want change only switchies for sedan they are not same for the all civic 2006-2011. Make sure to get switchies from the same type of steering wheel as you have because switchies look same but mounting holes are not in same position so the steering wheel for civic sedan(2006-2008 ) is not same as sedan 2009-2011
Great tutorial! Basically, you did able your LX to have any modern car multimedia integration! I treated my LX with a Kenwood DNX697S. It is totally integrated with all the multimedia functionality it offers. The steering wheel controls pretty nice the head unit. I did buy a steering wheel stalk for UK version Honda Civic Hybrid (2006-2011) from UK ebay. It's plug and play to connect with the LX wire harness, and to connect the head unit wires is color ISO coded standard. Easy!
Extremely helpful video grabbed the controls from junk yard installed they didnt work figured it would be more wires from harness to head unit but did not know witch ones thank you
Hey, not sure if you’ll see this by now; After you took the pins out, did you attach those brown and pink wires to them yourself? And if so, how did you take off the previous wires that were attached to the pins?
Im curious if those pin locations will work with the android 10.1 screen. Have you updated your radio or plan to. Ive swapped my lx with the android and also did the retrofit for steering controls but I havent got them to work yet
I’ve done it and everything works perfectly! Upgraded my Old 2007 2 spoke with no controls to a 2011 hybrid 3 spoke with all the controls and wired it as the videos says to my Android 10.1 Head Unit, Set / Assigned The Functions and everything works flawlessly
I have a Honda Civic VTI 2009, do you think I can do this? I tried and did research on my car but couldnt find any, though online (Ebay) they do sell buttons for steering wheel for Honda Civic. Thank you!
Hey, what if I just decide to buy only the switches and out it into the Civic LX's steering wheels? Also, what pins should I use do I can add it to the factory harness?
I would have no idea where to buy harness pins. maybe Amazon or just google search it but it will not work if you just buy the switches and put them in the steering wheel. You need to add the wires from the harness in the steering column to the back of the radio.
Awesome tutorial! I can't figure out how to get the pins to slide into the radio connector. There is a black thing on the connector that will not come off all the way. I have a feeling it has something to do with that. It seems like the wires actually hold that black piece into the connector though.
Ok so before i attempt this on my Civic your basically wiring the two pinned wires you add from back of clock spring to the radio connector pins you added?
Sorry for the late reply, I just barely saw this. Getting the pins out of the old harness seems like it would be easy but they didn’t just slide out for me. I thought you could just push a small screw driver in on the side to release the clip and slide it out but I ended up cutting the old harness all to pieces. Lol, that’s the only way I could get them out.
@@estherleong8894 if you look at the front of the connector there is a small rectangular hole next to each pin, push a small flat needle in there while pulling the wire. It will release easily!
Any chance you are still around? Had a question - Can you drop the radio controls into the LX wheel or do you need to replace the wheel? (ie does the mesh part come out on the left side?)
Yes, you can pop out the mesh part and replace with the controls. I replaced the steering wheel because the material on the top of mine was pretty rough, but you don’t have to change the whole thing.
So sorry. I missed your question. I don’t think it really matters what wire gauge you use. Just use similar to what’s already in the car. I used some old speaker wire and it works great for low voltage wiring. Thanks for watching! I hope this helps!
Did some sleuthing and found out the harness connector for the radio is a JAEMX34 (20 pins) www.cycleterminal.com/jae-mx34.html The pin looks like it should be M34S75C4F2 and the wire gauge is 20-22 Still researching about the one behind the clock spring to see if it requires different pins. Would you happen to know if the pins were the same? If they are, then it should also be M34S75C4F2
@@cabbageleafhead @kraid Super helpful! Attempting this on my daughter's '07 Civic LX. Did anyone confirm if the M34S75C4F2 terminals work on both radio & steering wheel harness?
I just did this to my 2010 Civic LX coupe. I did buy the terminals listed above but ended up just cutting the gray and white wire harnesses from a junkyard and using those terminals instead.
Great video! Can u describe me what are these other wires in radio socket? In my civic I don't have them and am pretty sure that I need them to be connected to make buttons on steering wheel start working.
if you are talking about the same socket where I added the steering wheel controls, I believe the other wires are for the aux input. I’m not completely sure though. does your car have an aux input below the radio? if not that would be it.
Showing your age when you don't know who Billie Eilish is, but great video man. Want to upgrade my LX with one of these but I'm not sure if it's worth it just for the volume control.
Man It's Tricky. What I did was I just cut up the junkyard harness because I was going to throw it away anyway. So I just kind of chopped it up without damaging the pins I wanted to keep because I couldn't figure out how to push the little tab to slide the pins out correctly.
@@hiddenadventure Oh thanks for the tips and the reply, so you just used the one from the EX and cut all the wires right? I've succeed to remove the one from the white plug pins which are more easy to remove and to put it back, I've used a pick tool ..
I need to go back to the scrap yard, I pick up the wrong grey plug, the one I took was the bigger one you mentioned not to take care of. I should have take all of them it was a pain to remove all the harness from the car.. So I endup cutting some of them..
if you look at the front of the connector there is a small rectangular hole next to each pin, push a small flat needle in there while pulling the wire. It will release easily!
Can anyone please help me , i have honda civic 2005 , with just volume ,channels, mode buttons on steering , i wanted to add cruise control kit, but someone told me , after installing the buttons ,i need to learn the new steering controls through dvd , is it ???
if i have a 2006 ex and i plug the harness into a aftermarket double din will the steering wheel control work? which wire thats going to the factory deck is the song change? should be plug and play?
I'm not sure the function would work for changing through songs with a double din. I guess it all depends what functionality the new head unit is progamed to take that information from the harness. I've never played around with that so I don't know. Sorry about that.
It used to be that you needed to have an adapter (I know PAC was one of the manufacturers) which converted the signal into something the head unit could understand but now I see that they're coming out with head units that accept different types of inputs and also are programmable. If it's a Sony, you probably just need a little pigtail which looks just like a 1/8" mini headphone connector. I just installed a Kenwood multi media deck into a '08 LX and am willing to give this a try. Supposedly the head unit is supposed to work without one of those adapters but I believe it had something like 6 wires out the back for steering wheel controls. Not sure if it's compatible with a 2 wire system. Will have to report back here when I dig into it a little more.
Hmmm. That's tricky. It could be a number of things. It could be the wire harness doesn't match the correct speaker wires or maybe a setting in the new stereo. I'm sorry, I wish I knew from experience and had an easy fix for you but I haven't really heard of that happening before.
The Civic LX Factory Radios have a Built In Amplifier that powers the speakers and give it Loud Volume. The Civic SI OEM Radio uses Premium Sound System which uses a External Amplifier which is why your Volume is low. There’s nothing or better words a Amplifier to give enough power to your speakers now!
Hoping @cabbageleafhead @kraid or others can help me troubleshoot. Swapped the steering wheel on my daughter's 2007 LX for an EX -L model with navigation. Ran 3 wires per video (ran 1 additional wire because the new steering wheel has a voice button), but not getting any response from steering wheel controls. my wires were a bit large & I'm concerned the M34S75C4F2 terminals didn't fully seat into the factory harness. maybe 1-2mm shy at most. To further complicate this, I installed new head unit (Kenwood DMX47S) & a iDatalink Maestro RR Interface Module to customize steering wheel controls. Not sure where the problem is, but after hours of troubleshooting, it's past my my grade. I know this an old thread, but hoping someone here has an idea.
I'm sorry, I wouldn't have a clue about what shops might offer a service like this. Maybe if you have a buddy that is good at this kind of stuff you could petition him or her and use my vid as a reference.
The way I found out how to do this was to reverse engineer it. I went to the wrecking yard and found a car with the controls and followed the wiring that I was missing. I imagine you could add steering controls for you Nav set up but I'm sorry I have not looked into the specifics on obe of those systems.
I'm not sure which wire is ground. They both go into the back of the radio and could both be signal wires. The ground could be through a screw in the hardware or or in the first wiring harness. Funny thing I just did this to another 2010 civic and I had to use my own video for refernce because I forgot where the wires went in the harnesses. It worked perfect though.
Well it took me about 3 hours not rushing at all and got some new radio controls wired in to my wheel found at a junk yard, make sure the wheel u pull the controls off of matches ur current wheel exactly if u go that route ie 2 spoke or 3 spoke. I was able to get a few extra connectors and cut the clock spring harness at the junk yard and bust it apart to get the pins out, remember the key portion of the pins goes away from the clip side of the harness when u go to re install it. I would take a pair of needle nose pliers and GENTLY push/guide the pins in make sure it’s full seated in before walking away from it also. Brother your video is a life saver! Thanks so much! God bless!
I bought the audio controls for my 2010 Honda Civic LX and soon realized that the aftermarket radio was not registering the controls. After buying a unnecessary CANBUS wiring harness, I scoured TH-cam and learned of the CLOCK SPRING and the necessary wiring. I replaced the original clock spring and added the 2 wires (disassembled an audio kit from AliExpress). The headunit learned all the new buttons. This video was very helpful.
How did you add the 2 wires did you need to get pins? or did you just wire the cables right up?
I did reuse the pins from the old cruise control. It fits nice!
Link for.key Adapter? Thanks m'y display for Watch and AC doesnt work. The volume and Channel Keys neither.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'm in the middle of this project and the shots you took of the back of each harness connector were exactly what I needed to clarify a DIY write-up on a forum I had read through. Looking forward to having this project done! Thanks!
I spend months and months searching eventually gave up until i found this video ! Did it on my 2008 civic sedan works like a charm ! Thank you sir.
How did you get the pins in order to do it
What a great video. Did this on my son's (new driver/first car) 2008 Civic LX recently..very happy kid!! Thank you sir!
Thank you for sharing this. I was able to install the steering wheel audio controls on my 2009 civic sedan LX. Hardest part was to depin the two wires from the EX harness. WORKS LIKE A CHARM
where did you get an EX harness from? or do you at least know the type of pins and gauge of wire I would need to do this?
Damn.. I was really hoping it would be plug and play. Thanks for the video my man.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I did This Install On My 2007 Honda Civic LX. Bought A used 2011 Hybrid Steering Wheel With Controls and wired it a bit differently since I have a aftermarket android radio install but everything works perfectly! 💯
Hi how did you do on aftermarket radio?
Pretty good video brother! My 08 Honda civic LX does not have the audio control! But now, Im gonna make it works! thank you very much!
Hey man, how was it Work?
Attention!!! If some want change only switchies for sedan they are not same for the all civic 2006-2011. Make sure to get switchies from the same type of steering wheel as you have because switchies look same but mounting holes are not in same position so the steering wheel for civic sedan(2006-2008 ) is not same as sedan 2009-2011
You don’t know how long I have been working on this sh... thanks simple fix very nice
Hola
Como se cual va conectado al cable key tengo un radio de pantalla
@@DJFORMATO debes verificar que el radio que tengas admita control de volante
thank you so much! found one of these steering wheels in the junk yard and BEEN trying to connect it
Great tutorial! Basically, you did able your LX to have any modern car multimedia integration! I treated my LX with a Kenwood DNX697S. It is totally integrated with all the multimedia functionality it offers. The steering wheel controls pretty nice the head unit. I did buy a steering wheel stalk for UK version Honda Civic Hybrid (2006-2011) from UK ebay. It's plug and play to connect with the LX wire harness, and to connect the head unit wires is color ISO coded standard. Easy!
How bro
Great Guy helping a lot of folks thank you
Extremely helpful video grabbed the controls from junk yard installed they didnt work figured it would be more wires from harness to head unit but did not know witch ones thank you
So basically we just need those two wires?? Right ?
Yeap!
That is correct.
Man, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much
Same here brooos!!! And yeah thank you for thisss!!
Hey, not sure if you’ll see this by now;
After you took the pins out, did you attach those brown and pink wires to them yourself?
And if so, how did you take off the previous wires that were attached to the pins?
Im curious if those pin locations will work with the android 10.1 screen. Have you updated your radio or plan to. Ive swapped my lx with the android and also did the retrofit for steering controls but I havent got them to work yet
I’ve done it and everything works perfectly! Upgraded my Old 2007 2 spoke with no controls to a 2011 hybrid 3 spoke with all the controls and wired it as the videos says to my Android 10.1 Head Unit, Set / Assigned The Functions and everything works flawlessly
@@JMMinistries is there a way you can send me a video or pictures in how you plugged it up to the android unit
Hi! Can I use CH button to go to the next song on CD?
Pretty sweet. Thanks for the info.
The LED's color is white, red or green?
By any chance do you know how to add the cruise control aswell? I have a DX, so it's the base model and I would like both features
I have a Honda Civic VTI 2009, do you think I can do this? I tried and did research on my car but couldnt find any, though online (Ebay) they do sell buttons for steering wheel for Honda Civic.
Thank you!
Thank You for sharing... Will be doing this...
Hey, what if I just decide to buy only the switches and out it into the Civic LX's steering wheels? Also, what pins should I use do I can add it to the factory harness?
I would have no idea where to buy harness pins. maybe Amazon or just google search it but it will not work if you just buy the switches and put them in the steering wheel. You need to add the wires from the harness in the steering column to the back of the radio.
The pin looks like it should be M34S75C4F2 and the wire gauge is 20-22
Thank you bro. It really helped.
Awesome tutorial! I can't figure out how to get the pins to slide into the radio connector. There is a black thing on the connector that will not come off all the way. I have a feeling it has something to do with that. It seems like the wires actually hold that black piece into the connector though.
The way I did it was easier I took the pins out with the Cable still attached and just splice into the existing cable to make it easier!
Ok so before i attempt this on my Civic your basically wiring the two pinned wires you add from back of clock spring to the radio connector pins you added?
Thats what i want to know
Bro, thank you 🙏
Thanks for the awesome info! Just wondering how you got the pins out from the harness?
Sorry for the late reply, I just barely saw this. Getting the pins out of the old harness seems like it would be easy but they didn’t just slide out for me. I thought you could just push a small screw driver in on the side to release the clip and slide it out but I ended up cutting the old harness all to pieces. Lol, that’s the only way I could get them out.
@@hiddenadventure it’s all good! thank you for the info! Stay safe and God bless you!
@@estherleong8894 if you look at the front of the connector there is a small rectangular hole next to each pin, push a small flat needle in there while pulling the wire. It will release easily!
@@thethingonlymalehave thank you for the info! God bless you!
Hey man, does the lights on the buttons also working?
Yes. They illuminate the same as the cruise control buttons on the other side. Works like it was meant to be!
Any chance you are still around? Had a question - Can you drop the radio controls into the LX wheel or do you need to replace the wheel? (ie does the mesh part come out on the left side?)
Yes, you can pop out the mesh part and replace with the controls. I replaced the steering wheel because the material on the top of mine was pretty rough, but you don’t have to change the whole thing.
@@hiddenadventurebro are you in los angeles ? Can you do this for me ? Ill pay
Any chance you can link me to the guy who did the Honda Fit? I’m having a hard time finding it.
th-cam.com/video/rt4ZFn3qk8c/w-d-xo.html
Out of those two cords, do you know which cord is the power cord and what cord is for data?
you mentioned silver red? what is that for??
Thanks! What gauge are the wires, does it need to be a specific size?
So sorry. I missed your question. I don’t think it really matters what wire gauge you use. Just use similar to what’s already in the car. I used some old speaker wire and it works great for low voltage wiring. Thanks for watching! I hope this helps!
@@hiddenadventure No worries it's fine. Alright I'll try to use similar wires. The video is quite detailed and very helpful!
@@WhiteKestrell Did you end up finding the right wires? My research shows it should be 20-22
@@cabbageleafhead Haven't gotten to it yet but 20-22 sounds close enough, so that's what I'll be using as well.
Would you know if this is the right part number to copy the wiring from? 32117-SNA-A44 Or is it called the "dash wiring harness"? Thanks
Did some sleuthing and found out the harness connector for the radio is a JAEMX34 (20 pins) www.cycleterminal.com/jae-mx34.html
The pin looks like it should be M34S75C4F2 and the wire gauge is 20-22
Still researching about the one behind the clock spring to see if it requires different pins. Would you happen to know if the pins were the same? If they are, then it should also be M34S75C4F2
@@cabbageleafhead @kraid Super helpful! Attempting this on my daughter's '07 Civic LX. Did anyone confirm if the M34S75C4F2 terminals work on both radio & steering wheel harness?
@@offthefrontvideo yeah. I used these on my civic. Worked fine
I just did this to my 2010 Civic LX coupe. I did buy the terminals listed above but ended up just cutting the gray and white wire harnesses from a junkyard and using those terminals instead.
What about the backseat armrest audio controls? Do they work too after the steering audio control installation??
Haha! Maybe in some sort of Cadillac! 😂
Great video! Can u describe me what are these other wires in radio socket? In my civic I don't have them and am pretty sure that I need them to be connected to make buttons on steering wheel start working.
if you are talking about the same socket where I added the steering wheel controls, I believe the other wires are for the aux input. I’m not completely sure though. does your car have an aux input below the radio? if not that would be it.
Would the controls work on aftermarket radios?
Yes they do!
Anything different you have to do if you’re running an aftermarket Double Din?
Did you ever figure this out?
Showing your age when you don't know who Billie Eilish is, but great video man. Want to upgrade my LX with one of these but I'm not sure if it's worth it just for the volume control.
Trust Me when I tell you it is!
How do you pull out the pins from the grey plug , thanks..
Man It's Tricky. What I did was I just cut up the junkyard harness because I was going to throw it away anyway. So I just kind of chopped it up without damaging the pins I wanted to keep because I couldn't figure out how to push the little tab to slide the pins out correctly.
@@hiddenadventure Oh thanks for the tips and the reply, so you just used the one from the EX and cut all the wires right? I've succeed to remove the one from the white plug pins which are more easy to remove and to put it back, I've used a pick tool ..
I need to go back to the scrap yard, I pick up the wrong grey plug, the one I took was the bigger one you mentioned not to take care of. I should have take all of them it was a pain to remove all the harness from the car.. So I endup cutting some of them..
I will try to make it worked with an aftermarket pioneer radio.
if you look at the front of the connector there is a small rectangular hole next to each pin, push a small flat needle in there while pulling the wire. It will release easily!
Ohhh, wow. Thank you
Can anyone please help me , i have honda civic 2005 , with just volume ,channels, mode buttons on steering , i wanted to add cruise control kit, but someone told me , after installing the buttons ,i need to learn the new steering controls through dvd , is it ???
if i have a 2006 ex and i plug the harness into a aftermarket double din will the steering wheel control work? which wire thats going to the factory deck is the song change? should be plug and play?
I'm not sure the function would work for changing through songs with a double din. I guess it all depends what functionality the new head unit is progamed to take that information from the harness. I've never played around with that so I don't know. Sorry about that.
It used to be that you needed to have an adapter (I know PAC was one of the manufacturers) which converted the signal into something the head unit could understand but now I see that they're coming out with head units that accept different types of inputs and also are programmable. If it's a Sony, you probably just need a little pigtail which looks just like a 1/8" mini headphone connector. I just installed a Kenwood multi media deck into a '08 LX and am willing to give this a try. Supposedly the head unit is supposed to work without one of those adapters but I believe it had something like 6 wires out the back for steering wheel controls. Not sure if it's compatible with a 2 wire system. Will have to report back here when I dig into it a little more.
Do u know about cruise control
Need help i Changed the Stereo of Honda Civic Lx 2006 with 2008 Civic Si stereo but I am hearing very low volume?? How do i Fix this?
Hmmm. That's tricky. It could be a number of things. It could be the wire harness doesn't match the correct speaker wires or maybe a setting in the new stereo. I'm sorry, I wish I knew from experience and had an easy fix for you but I haven't really heard of that happening before.
The Civic LX Factory Radios have a Built In Amplifier that powers the speakers and give it Loud Volume. The Civic SI OEM Radio uses Premium Sound System which uses a External Amplifier which is why your Volume is low. There’s nothing or better words a Amplifier to give enough power to your speakers now!
Anyone know if the DX version can work with this?
They Do!
Hoping @cabbageleafhead @kraid or others can help me troubleshoot. Swapped the steering wheel on my daughter's 2007 LX for an EX -L model with navigation. Ran 3 wires per video (ran 1 additional wire because the new steering wheel has a voice button), but not getting any response from steering wheel controls. my wires were a bit large & I'm concerned the M34S75C4F2 terminals didn't fully seat into the factory harness. maybe 1-2mm shy at most. To further complicate this, I installed new head unit (Kenwood DMX47S) & a iDatalink Maestro RR Interface Module to customize steering wheel controls. Not sure where the problem is, but after hours of troubleshooting, it's past my my grade. I know this an old thread, but hoping someone here has an idea.
This is too complicated for me, I don’t know too much about wires in the car. Can someone add these wires for me? I’m in Los Angeles
I'm sorry, I wouldn't have a clue about what shops might offer a service like this. Maybe if you have a buddy that is good at this kind of stuff you could petition him or her and use my vid as a reference.
Can you do the same for the bluetooth control and voice assistant to the sat nav system please all help much appreciated
The way I found out how to do this was to reverse engineer it. I went to the wrecking yard and found a car with the controls and followed the wiring that I was missing. I imagine you could add steering controls for you Nav set up but I'm sorry I have not looked into the specifics on obe of those systems.
@@hiddenadventure oh thanks much appreciated I'll look into this
What wire is ground?..
I'm not sure which wire is ground. They both go into the back of the radio and could both be signal wires. The ground could be through a screw in the hardware or or in the first wiring harness. Funny thing I just did this to another 2010 civic and I had to use my own video for refernce because I forgot where the wires went in the harnesses. It worked perfect though.
Guys , Please anyone knows or have steps for 2007 accord
cool Thanks.
Wouldn't it had been easier to just grab the harness out of that junked SI and put it in your car?
These steps are too easy. It didn't look as though you went through any Canbus system. Such a retrofit is worth it as shown in the video
Im willing to pay someone to do this for me lol
Bro a month later and still havent been able to find anyone who can do this
Anyone down?