RE: Question re: Radio security codes

[kappa@travelin.com]

You can find the items in cheapy automotive stores, like VIP, Pep Boys etc.  
Typically advertised as... radio memory savers....

-Stott

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, "Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com> wrote:
>
>My Bentley shows a VAG or Snap-On (prolly worth $122.50) tool to
>maintain radio codes that consists of a cigarette lighter plug like any
>that you would power a 12v accessory with attached to a 9v battery (the
>one with snaps on the end). Seems if you run 9v into the cigarette
>lighter rather than pulling 12v from it, the radio doesn't get
>lobotomized. Not sure of polarity, picture in Bentley doesn't show.
>
>You can get your radio de-coded at the, gulp, dealer.
>
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>Ian Duff, 1990 Coupe quattro 20v, Red/Black
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>Home: New Bedford, MA, USA
>Work: Charter Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
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>>From: 	Jeff Loh[SMTP:jeff.loh@fluordaniel.com]
>>Sent: 	Tuesday, 17 September, 1996 01:38 PM
>>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>>Subject: 	Question re: Radio security codes
>>
>>     If anyone has ever worked on VW/Audi stereos with the factory 
>>     coded security system, they'd know my predicament.
>>     
>>     I bought my 80Q used from a dealer, but none of the papers that 
>>     came with the car had the code, can I successfully reprogram the
>>
>>     radio or does it mean a trip to the dealer?
>>     
>>     I want to know because I plan to disconnect the battery and do 
>>     some simple maintenance work on the car, but don't want to screw
>>
>>     up the radio in the process.
>>     
>>     I suppose the last resort would be to grovel and pay them to do
>>a 
>>     5 minute job.
>>     
>>     /J
>>     80Q in need of a battery cleaning.
>>
>>
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>
-Stott Hare      '84 4Ksq  (black, and waiting for turbo...)
Biddeford, Maine

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