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<blockquote data-quote="THATpurpleKUSH" data-source="post: 8686291" data-attributes="member: 615398">If you only have $200 to spend you should save your money and increase your budget. $200 will barely get you a headunit and a pair of speakers. You will also need sound deadening, an amp and a wiring kit for the amp. You have the right idea skipping rear speakers but I would switch the fronts to a component set. You can use a 4ch amp and use the front channels for the speakers then bridge the rear channels for a low powered sub.During the time you are saving you should look at sound deadening and an ELD bypass for your car.Civics don&#039;t have a lot of factory sound deadening so you will need to add some to reduce rattling. Doing so will allow your budget speakers of choice to perform much better. Next it&#039;s important to understand your vehicles electrical system. Since the early 2000s Honda has been using an electronic load detector which controls the alternator and tells it when to charge the battery and when not to. Adding aftermarket electronics increases the electrical load of the charging system so the alternator will need to work to charge the battery. The ELD turns off the alternator at certain times to aid fuel efficiency. This is not good when you have aftermarket electronics installed so you should install a bypass to circumvent this problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="THATpurpleKUSH, post: 8686291, member: 615398"] If you only have $200 to spend you should save your money and increase your budget. $200 will barely get you a headunit and a pair of speakers. You will also need sound deadening, an amp and a wiring kit for the amp. You have the right idea skipping rear speakers but I would switch the fronts to a component set. You can use a 4ch amp and use the front channels for the speakers then bridge the rear channels for a low powered sub. During the time you are saving you should look at sound deadening and an ELD bypass for your car. Civics don't have a lot of factory sound deadening so you will need to add some to reduce rattling. Doing so will allow your budget speakers of choice to perform much better. Next it's important to understand your vehicles electrical system. Since the early 2000s Honda has been using an electronic load detector which controls the alternator and tells it when to charge the battery and when not to. Adding aftermarket electronics increases the electrical load of the charging system so the alternator will need to work to charge the battery. The ELD turns off the alternator at certain times to aid fuel efficiency. This is not good when you have aftermarket electronics installed so you should install a bypass to circumvent this problem. [/QUOTE]

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