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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:Cars in the UK
Notice:Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:COMICS::SHELLEYELD
Created:Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2584
Total number of notes:63384

980.0. "Aftermath of flat battery - Radio needs code" by CHEFS::KARVE (Shantanu Karve @REO (7)-830-4478 ) Fri Mar 09 1990 15:41

    Mod - Please move this if appropriate.
                                     
    I left the radio on at the long-term Heathrow car-park; came back
    a few days later :      
    
    Result- a flat battery.                                       
                                                                  
    Now I have a radio-casette with power but keeps on asking me for
    the CODE. Unfortunately I recorded the code in my 1988 diary, long
    thrown away. What should I do to get the thing going ? 
                                                                            
    P.S. - If you get a flat battery in the long-term car park, the
    guys at the exit will give you a portable battery 'charger' and
    a trolley so you can trundle it to you car and connect it up, black
    to black, red to red , turn the switch and Bruuuuuuummmmmmmmm.
    
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980.1Try DealersPANIC::WINTERDo You Stop When You Hit A Rock ?Fri Mar 09 1990 15:487
    
    Try local dealers. Go with serial number of Radio and proof of
    ownership of the car. Worked for a friend ok.
    
    Regards
    
    Sean
980.2VOGON::ATWALDreams, they complicate my lifeFri Mar 09 1990 15:548
if it's one of the earlier coded stereos, putting the thing in the freezer
over the weekend will affect the code; disabling it.


...art


p.s. it does really work
980.3on icePUGH::FRENCHSG6ZTZ and countingFri Mar 09 1990 16:324
I suppose you freeze it solid and it becomes "hard coded"...


simon
980.4WINDUP ALERT..........MINDER::GILBERTSystems Design & Eng Cntr @ MCOSun Mar 11 1990 21:498
    re .2
    
    Obvious really.
    
    ICE= in car entertainment
    
    :-)
    
980.5That's coolSUBURB::SCREENERRobert Screene, UK Finance EUCThu Mar 15 1990 17:161
    
980.6Moved by modUKCSSE::RDAVIESLive long and prosperMon Mar 26 1990 16:3517
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Note 991.0           HELP needed with security coded stereo              1 reply
PEKING::TAYLORG "Bodybuilders do it till it hurts"   11 lines  26-MAR-1990 08:31
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    What do you do if you forget you security code on a coded stereo?
    
    The reason I ask is because on saturday while I was cleaning the tape
    heads of the cassette deck in our 760 I decided to code the stereo
    (they come uncoded).  Anyway I coded the stereo but I must have
    does something wrong because the stereo is now locked and I cannot
    unlock it :-(
    
    H E L P ! ! !
    
    Grant
980.7Moved by modUKCSSE::RDAVIESLive long and prosperMon Mar 26 1990 16:368
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Note 991.1           HELP needed with security coded stereo               1 of 1
COMICS::WEGG "Some hard boiled eggs & some nuts."      1 line  26-MAR-1990 08:59
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980.8UpdatePEKING::TAYLORGBodybuilders do it till it hurtsTue Apr 03 1990 16:087
    The car went in for its oil/filter change on friday so we got the
    radio fixed then.  Got the car back friday night and the radio is
    working again.
    
    Well done Lex Brooklands.
    
    Grant
980.9We have to talk to each other now!IOSG::MITCHELLElaineTue Apr 03 1990 18:2217
    
    Variation on the 'dead radio' theme -
    
    Our radio (Phillips) I think, decided that it needed the code number
    putting into it, and between Derek and me arguing about how to do it -
    we put in the wrong number, and now we can't get it to accept any other
    attempt to enter the number. The 'C' is displayed on the radio, and a 
    dispalyed 'line' moves round on the right hand site, plotting a square.
    (sorry about the explanation - but if you've seen it before you'll know
    what I mean!) Derek tried disconnecting the battry, but we still can't
    get it to accept the code number.
    
    Please don't say RT*M - we can't find it! :-) Maybe someone has
    a Maestro/other Rover with a coded radio?
    
    
    
980.10ANNECY::MATTHEWSM+M Enterprises. Thats the CATCHTue Apr 03 1990 19:097
    Don't you have to disconnect the battery, and leave it disconnected
    for some time, like a day or so, to give it time to forget ...

    The idea being that the would be thief can't try all the combinations
    in one life time ...

  Mark
980.11um er....UKCSSE::RDAVIESLive long and prosperTue Apr 03 1990 19:484
    There is a key that clears the thing for input, trouble is I can't
    remember which one.
    
    Richard
980.12The dealer SHOULD know!TLE::LEGERLOTZI came. I saw. I left.Wed Apr 04 1990 00:243
Call your local dealer and ask the service department.  They should know.

-Al
980.13PEKING::TAYLORGBodybuilders do it till it hurtsWed Apr 04 1990 12:408
    re.9
    
    You could try what I did and wait 4 hours and then try and enter
    the code again.
    
    Good luck
    
    Grant
980.14Don't know if this helps but...DOOZER::JENKINSMen! They're full ofWed Apr 04 1990 23:0020
    
    I have a Blaupunkt that needs a code, entering the code is achieved
    using the preset station buttons. 
    
    The code has four numbers
    
    eg 3456
    
    To enter the number you press preset_button_1 three times
                                  preset_button_2 four times
    and so on.                                  
    
    Once the code is displayed, the set is "activated" by pressing the
    tuner in the +ve direction. Pressing it in the -ve direction clears
    the code and you can start again. 
                    
    If I forget the code, the set has to go back to Blaupunkt and they
    charge me loads of wonga for a "chip" with a new code.
    
    
980.15CHEFS::KARVEShantanu Karve @REO (7)-830-4478 Tue Apr 10 1990 18:4919
    Re .0 ( feedback ) 
    
    Well, I dug up the manual finally, and found that it told me that:
    
    "if you cannot remember the right code anymore and can prove that
    you are the legitimate owner, your dealer can return the car radio
    to the factory to erase the unknown code from the memory "
    
    Rather than chase this option and the ones mentioned in this note
    ( thanks BTW ), I let my brain go into freefall, and hey presto!,
    I remembered, its the first 3 digits of my access code to DECPARK.
    
    I punched that in and YO! Radio 4, WhiteSnake, Ghulam Ali, here
    I come....
    
    Thanks for the feedback in this note, and hope my solution rings
    a bell for somebody else.
    
    -Shantanu ( who has changed the code since )