View Full Version : Removing Hard-Wired Hands Free Car Kit in Accord 2000


ImSeeker
01-05-2009, 01:47 PM
I have an old Samsung hands free car kit - professionally installed in 2000 - kept it forever, but finally moved to bluetooth.

I just want to remove it.

I've opened the front panel and removed the cradle and main unit - disconnected the speaker wire, the microphone wire, and the power plug.

So - the question is, can I just stuff the remainder back in and close up? Is that safe?

The power plug is soldered into the radio area. The microphone wire runs up to the sunglasses/map light area and a small microphone emerges. The speaker wire runs down 'somewhere' and probably attaches to the speakers at some point.

About the only thing I'd LIKE to do is remove the microphone - so instructions on how to remove the map light/sunglasses panel would help on that.

Of course, if just putting all the 'loose wires' back in is a problem, I'll have to do more.

Thanks for any help.

Bruce Hawkins
01-05-2009, 06:32 PM
Funny. Guess what I did this weekend. I added a mic, to the same place. I'm making my own, car kit (for my old PDA cell phone (QCP-2035)...

So. There are 4 screws, holding the map light. Two are available once you open the sun glasses holder. Be prepared to grab the screws as, they like to, fly a way, and hid...
The other two are hard to get to. Geerrrrr. There under the map light cover (lenz). Take a small screwdriver, look closest to the windshield, on the cover, there are two tabs, pry the lenz/cover off, shifting from one to the other, back and forth. Once the 4 screws are out, it will fall out. Follow the yellow brick road - Sorry, the black mic cable. Most likely, the cable runs down the passengers A-piller. That's where I ran myn.
The A-piller (Windshield post between the door is A-piller, The B-Piller is the post between the two doors, and C-piller is the one between the back door and rear window).
This cover comes off by hand, pull from the top, carefully. Back on, start at the bottom. Line up the indentation it made on the headliner. It has to go behind a rubber seal, this is the hard part.

ImSeeker
01-05-2009, 06:49 PM
Thanks for the tip - that will help me remove the mic.

Now to decide if the power and speaker cables can just be "left behind".