Axxess Steering Wheel Control Installation | Honda Ridgeline | ASWC

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Here is a little video that I made showing the installation of the Axxess steering control module for a Honda.

[@railroader383]

they told me at the local stereo shop I needed one on my 08 civic for my Jensen vx7020 I just bought. I found the two wires in the civic connector, one brown and one pink were for the swc. I hooked one to the Jensen swc white and one to the Jensen swc ground. programmed controls and works perfect. saved a hundred bucks they wanted.

[@BoostedAP1]

To sum it up.. 5 wires will be used. On ASCW-1 Red: to ignition power wire Black: just ground it anywhere Black 3.5mm wire: plugs into back of HU(SW jack) Plug the black antenna wire w/blue remote wire into after market HU and then plug to stock antenna harness. Blue wire not used Red & Gray wire: tap into green and red on stock harness. On Stock Harness BROWN WIRE on the stock harness where the green and red wire is located? Tap that wire and just ground it to a ground anywhere. All done. Also the two wires referenced at the end are not related to the green and red. They are the negative and positive for the stock subwoofer.

[@akindofyoga]

Axxess makes vehicle specific harnesses for the ASWC. I got a vehicle specific harness for my Camry, so I was able to leave the factory harness alone. If you don't get the special harness, I'd recommend splicing the power and ground from the wire going to the radio plug, rather than the one going to the factory harness. That way you only have to splice one wire in the factory harness.

[@Browningate]

So you're saying you'll have two sets of vehicle interface harnesses then (one for the steering wheel controls and one for the aftermarket radio)?

[@akindofyoga]

Exactly. One harness was the special harness for the ASWC that connected to the car's steering wheel controls. The other was the regular harness to hook up all of the other connections to the radio.

[@Browningate]

RogerIyengarDotCom Or you can just chop into the vehicle's connector for the steering wheel control interface and just use the one harness for the radio, like what was done in the video.

[@akindofyoga]

***** I would rather pay $10 for the steering wheel control harness and leave my factory wiring alone.

[@Browningate]

RogerIyengarDotCom Makes sense. You're saying that the harness has a female connection for the vehicle's connector and ends in a male connection to connect into the female plug of the aftermarket radio's harness? It just sounds like a lot of cabling in a cramped space to me, but if it's what has to be done, that's fine.

[@luigivillani3141]

You are fantastic the other videos weren't very descriptive

[@dragon123443]

Great video man. I truly appreciate you posting it. helped alot.

[@dossegundos7145]

The only wire that needed a jumper was the the green/red from the Honda harness. The others, simply used on the metra or scosche harness, black to black ground, brown wire when connected to the M or S harness is blue and that one goes to the same ground used for the HU, either harness or chassis, no need to tap in to the factory harness 3 times,

[@vtsean5840]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@eh2688]

Iam happy to know that this product exists.

[@milldabeast519]

+dside521 wait til you use it....

[@tiggermix]

So what you are saying here is that the Brown is not an actual ground wire, you need to jump the black wire to the brown wire to give it ground correct! Then the brown wire sends the negative to the steering wheel and the steering wheel controls with it's resistors send back the information back through the green/red wire to the Databus! The way I understand this is that the black wire on the Metra is getting tapped twice (One for the Axxess Black Wire), Two ( For the Brown Wire on the Factory Harness), Green/Red from factory to the Grey/Red on the Axxess, Red Wire from Harness to Red Wire on the Axxess Red. Correct me if I'm wrong please!

[@CHIBA280CRV]

Thank you for the informative video , it sure helped me out..

[@DIYManiacJohnP]

Only the one wire needed to be spliced the the factory harness (the green and yellow) the others could have been spliced into the radio harness.

[@dossegundos7145]

And the connector with green and yellow is the factory subwoofer out from the factory receiver,

[@chrisprice7911]

I was going to make the same comment. This statement is accurate

[@dossegundos7145]

Correction based on what I stated 2 posts before, the blue wire and pin next to the red one on the Metra harness needs to be moved to the bottom to make sure it connects to the honda brown radio remote wire, then simply ground the wire on the metra harness side to the same ground used with the new radio.

[@jpaez82]

Good tut. But I can't stand when people needlessly cut into factory wiring. On a radio install it can always be done with out touching the factory wiring. If you need more wires for SWC buy 2 harnesses and pull wires out of one to put in the other Or if you have an old harness laying around do the same. That is my only gripe with videos like this.

[@TE5LA-GAMING]

DigitalErra It can't always be done. Even when they make a harness, it often doesn't contain every necessary wire, especially on premium OEM systems.

[@TE5LA-GAMING]

It's too bad the ASWC-1 is so hit or miss. It doesn't work about 60% of the time. Yes, it worked great on a Ridgeline I just did, but won't work at all on a Harley-Davidson, even with the Metra pre-wired harness. And don't bother asking them why their pre-wired harness for the ASWC-1 is wired completely different from how they instruct you to manually wire one. The Hayley uses five control wires on the ASWC in addition to power and ground, plus two resistors and those wires are completely different in the manual instructions and the pre-wired part.

[@guessguy209]

Thanks for the video. Question....the part when you are showing the directions and the harness connector....were those directions specific to your vehicle? Aka, the web page you were reading through you navigated to for your vehicle? Or were those general directions for the Axxess / all vehicles?

[@JuanPerez-yy5hr]

Nice video great info

[@jakehorror]

Silly question, but how did you make your wheel emblem black? Is it wrapped? The chrome on my Pilot is all worn off and was thinking about blacking it out. Great job on the video too.

[@Astral_Traveler]

hi there, congratulations, excellent videos! one question for you is that, do you still need this conector for a navi upgrade on a 2006 ridgeline? I would like to upgrade but not sure what will need beside the double din dash. cheers thanks!

[@jconstant]

Great video. I'm installing mine on a Pilot and the instructions say "Connect Pin 11 of the vehicle to chassis ground (you can use the same chassis ground the black wire is connected to)". Did you have to do the same and if so, how exactly did you do that?

[@destintosell5548]

How did you program the axswc? I wired mine in and it doesn't work.

[@g5magic]

Any vdo for back up camera retention ?

[@SENGVIN]

hey this is great set up I have 2008 ridgeline RTL and I would like to do the same think what radio would you recommend ? is there newer model ? and how much did u spend on this radio?

[@SmoovMedia]

i need help asap i am installing this on a honda element... can u clearify the brown wire n ground... did u put the 3.5 mm jack in to pioneer labeled w/r (wired remote)

[@shawnwaldrop3702]

Did you ever get this to work? 08 Element here. And Im going with a different bland of head unit (ATOTO) so it’s probably a different issue than yours.

[@jrstormont]

At about 3:13, you said you had a couple wires that had to be connected. Which ones were those, and what did they go to? Were they the brown and brown/white wires? So far I've done everything the video said to do, and the controls didn't respond at all. I have an 06 Ridgeline, and the wiring setup has looked exactly like your video. Please help. Thanks!

[@05kentucky]

I have the same radio as you. Where did you plug the male connector from the aswc into the radio? Or did you even have to plug that in

[@mtlmusic5143]

You guys always cut the danm video on the part that I need to see. How did you wite it up? Did you have to cut anything?

[@toxxicbangerz]

Did you connect the stereo group to the adapter ground, or did you leave the two wires separated?

[@vittoriosantiago]

What did u do with the 3.5 jack wire

[@timothysouza4415]

What about the steering wheel control wire (blue with yellow stripe) coming off the aftermarket hu?

[@luisdavidruizful]

im installing mine in a 2009 mazda 2009, but it does not work, the instruccion manual says auto detect but it does not work, i have double check all the connections and every thing its ok, i try with a new aswc but nothing work, the radio im installing its a pioneer deh x 2650bt, on the configuration of the radio it says swc set up, so i dont know if theres something wrong, any tips? ??

[@cammoxx]

did you loss your sub woffer?

[@carlbrooks90]

They got right on the ridgeline. But axxess really screwed up on the trailblazer

[@aakudev]

HI, What is that blue harness plug called? I am looking to source one to change in my vehicle.

[@sanjricar4028]

Nice

[@cnbsdad]

Did you need a conversation kit for the pioneer deck?

[@giovannivasquez7223]

I did it like that on a 2007 accord same instructions but is not working I don’t know why cane some one help please thank you

[@richardjasmer7769]

For as much as the aswc steering wheel controller cost a person should not have to cut factory wires. I mean really that's the whole porpoise of buying plug and play harness

[@TieuXuanTu75]

you have to find out which wire connection to steering your car ,,there are 2 wire ,,

[@mrbx79]

do you think that the same steps might work on a Honda pilot 06?

[@stevegoss9791]

Has anyone done this for a 2013 Honda CRV? Installed an aftermarket touchscreen radio/DVD player for my wife's SUV and lost the ability to use the steering wheel control...it's only annoying because we can't change the clock anymore!

[@Jcaban]

I followed the instructions exactly and it didn’t work. What the video doesn’t explain is that you might need to do perform extra steps depending on the radio being installed so visit the website for instructions specific to your radio. I have a Kenwood radio that required use of an additional wire.

[@andreslopez21lopez55]

have know power at the key

[@luisdavidruizful]

its a 2009 mazda 6 im sorry

[@milldabeast519]

apparently i was supposed to get a 12k resister so it auto detects when i wire it up and it never came with a resister and the manual dectection isnt working.... instruction on there site where telling me to stick a wire in to the back of the harness .... that fine if the harness had a prong in that spot but it doesnt. and its the proper stereo harness for my vehicle... not really impressed with this product.

[@milldabeast519]

+milldabeast519 i dont have a wire or even a prong in the spot axxess tells me to install it in! its the proper vehicle harness. the stereo is in and working . just this dumb product thats not working worth shit

[@HammerLeaf]

Dude, explain it like you're explaining it to a person that knows nothing about this.