RE: Blinking red light on Bose system

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

... I've seen the newer cars with the blinking light, but I didn't know that
there was one in the '91 200q as well.  AFAIK the unit in my '91 V8 is the
same (AAMOF I just replaced it this weekend and know the P/N is the same)
and I've never seen a blinking light either on the original unit (which was
a remanufactured unit) or the one I just replaced it with ... 

... as an aside ... even though I got the code with the rebuilt unit, I
found I did not need to enter the code when I installed it!  Just for fun I
activated the code setting mechanism and entered the correct code, which it
took ... but I don't know if the feature is actually working.  Has anyone
else seen this behavior on a reman'ed unit?

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

... suffering from binkinlightenvy ... :)

> ----------
> It blinks as sort of a "security warning". Also helpful, at a glance (when
> dark enough), to let you know whether or not you forget to turn OFF the
> radio--it only blinks when radio is turned off. Although door doesn't need
> to be locked.
> 
> As to various intervals: my first (RIP) '91 200q had a blink rate that I
> recall was around 5 or 6 seconds. My current car (same model) blinks every
> 2.5 seconds. Don't know why. I doubt if it's related to battery
>