With Covid slowing things down so much I finally had a few moments to do some handymanning. . . for myself.
In this case, my lovely 97 Civic, which I have owned for 19 years, needed a refurb of the stereo system. The speakers had died of old age, and when I replaced them, I found the left front speaker had no signal. So I took out the wiring harness that was custom done 19 years ago, and found the guy who installed it had used black tape to connect everything, yuck:
Over time the adhesive had turned to mush, and I decided to re do it all correctly, but first I had to get all that gunky tape off the wires. What a mess:
Once I got all that cleaned off, I bought a soldering gun, connected all the wires with solder (the correct way to do it) . . .and covered each soldered joint with heat shrink insulation, now all nice and neat:
Of course once I was done I discovered that the speaker wires in the left front door had been cut by my mechanic by mistake, so I fixed that connection and got the new speakers in and oh boy, I finally have tunes in my car again. Perhaps I should upgrade the head unit too but . . it works!
I also had issue with my speedometer, and after spending $174 on a new speed sensor with no results, I looked on YouTube, where I learned that a bad solder joint in the speedometer was the likely culprit– so I removed the instrument cluster and the speedometer, re-soldered a teensy little circuit board connector, and viola, I have a working speedometer again! 
I am just amazed and giddy that I figured this out– maybe this is how clients feel when I fix THEIR stuff 🙂
