This post is about my daughters 97 Honda Civic's dome light not coming on when the doors open,  so why is there a picture of radio on this blog post? Let me explain.

Last weekend, I was tooling around with my daughters car and noticed that when you open a door the dome light did not come on. So I tried each door and no light. However, the dome light does come on if you switch to manual ON position, but then the light does not go off when you shut the doors. So I call my brother the mechanic, he told me to check the little switches on the doors and to aslo check the dome light to make sure it was properly grounded. Everything looked good so I went to my friend google.

Google search results were not making any sense. Dome light controled by the factory radio wiring? Huh? The factory installed radio in my daughters car was replaced with a cheapo radio prior to us buying the car. Next stop eBay.

Ebay search results were fantastic. I found a nice factory radio for a 98 Honda Civic EX that was compatible for my daughters 97 Honda Civic EX for $20 dollars plus shipping. The radio was delivered in 2 days!!! I installed the factory radio and the dome light now works great.

Who would of thought that the radio wiring on a 97 Honda Civic EX would control the dome light...