Thread: 1997 Honda Civic CD Changer Help!

If you for Alpine M-BUS and/or Honda M-Bus, you may get some usefull info.
If I remember it right and you have the one with DIN style connector, the plug different is pin4 and pin2 are swap (audio L=R and R=L).

Yes I think you are right. I understand that the audio might be flipped. I'm still trying to find a pinout of those two (honda and alpine cd changer) connections. I googled on them and found a lot of adapters but no pin diagrams.

I'll keep looking. I know some are on the web.

I have got one around here somewhere. I had a 98 civic with an alpine changer, I actually still have the changer if you would like to buy it.

The cables are fairly cheap <$10, that is how I created my aux in.

Edit, found it!

Not Honda but Acura (well what the hell )
http://www.nsxprime.com/FAQ/DIY/sound_system.htm
The image below is also from the url above (from Alpine CDC side)
Note: The image need 180 degree turn to match the one from the above post.

Thanks for the help all. I did take a look at it last night and did some tracing with my meter and found there was no hot leads from the honda side so I got curious and pulled the radio. For whatever reason, the cable was pulled out of the back of the Head Unit so I reconnected it and it now controls the changer fine. Sounds good too. I will have to check into the left/right swap that y'all mentioned with the honda/alpine mbus connection, but its going now anyway.

Thanks again for the help with the pin outs. Now I will have to try
something hard down the road: hooking an mp3 player up like you guys do


thanks

Gooch

MatrixPC, I googled to hell the pinout for Honda to Alpine MBus and couldn't find a real pinout, just pin 2&4. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

just go and get a new alpine deck to make it easy for you...

i think they make an adapter... check crutchfield.com