I was checking over my beater Honda Civic today and noticed that the radio was not working. After taking a closer look I found out that the wiring was all messed up. I pulled the deck out of the dash and fixed the wiring by soldering all the connections instead of using crimp connectors. I find it that soldering two wires together gives you a better connection where as a crimp connector will sometimes give you an intermit and poor connection. I also noticed that the previous radio installer wired up the speakers wrong, the left and right speakers were swapped so the right speaker was playing on the left channel and the left speaker was playing on the right channel. I rewired the whole radio and now it works perfectly.

When making any electrical connections always solder the wires together and use the proper gauge wire for the application. When adding any positive connections straight to the battery always make sure you use a proper size fuse and fuse holder. Always wire in the fuse holder as close to the positive lead of your battery as possible so you don’t have a fire hazard.  If you need to check continuity or that you are getting the proper voltage from your battery use a multimeter. And last but not forgotten, double check your wiring before turning on your electical device so all your efforts are not wasted.