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Car radio - code doesn't work - help!
Alan_Cross
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Anyone able to suggest a way out of this?
During a recent garage stay, my wife's car had its battery completely removed from the car electrics. This tripped the radio which, when the battery was re-attached, immediately requested the correct security code.
Not having this, we paid a respectable company a few pounds to dig out the manufacturer's original code as implied by the radio's chassis reg. number.
It didn't work. The company kindly refunded our payment and said that the radio had obviously been recoded at some stage in its lifetime.
Short of buying a new radio, is there any cheaper way of getting this sorted?
While we're at it, are any UN-coded radios available in the shops? I am heartily fed up with this situation and cannot see the need for a whole industry to have arisen around the issue of car radio security.
During a recent garage stay, my wife's car had its battery completely removed from the car electrics. This tripped the radio which, when the battery was re-attached, immediately requested the correct security code.
Not having this, we paid a respectable company a few pounds to dig out the manufacturer's original code as implied by the radio's chassis reg. number.
It didn't work. The company kindly refunded our payment and said that the radio had obviously been recoded at some stage in its lifetime.
Short of buying a new radio, is there any cheaper way of getting this sorted?
While we're at it, are any UN-coded radios available in the shops? I am heartily fed up with this situation and cannot see the need for a whole industry to have arisen around the issue of car radio security.
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Pay a tenner and get it recoded.0
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Why didn't you ask the original garage to put it right at their expense?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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The new car selling dealer normally has a record of the code .
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Try this thread here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/483687"If you no longer go for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver" - Ayrton Senna0
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