Removing a Ford Radio

[VKa]

The wiring to the speakers in my car's radio is playing up, and I'd like to remove the radio to have a look, but as it's a second hand car, I don't have a serial keycode for it.  Am I going to trigger the keycode by removing the radio?  It's a Ford 6000 RDS CD player.

 

Thankyou.

[Sequin]

You trigger the keycode by removing power from the radio, so don't pull out the connectors at the back of the radio. If you take your logbook to a Ford dealer to prove ownership of the car they should be able to get you the code, but will probably charge you

[Mortartube]

My Ford dealer charged a tenner to give me the code.

[johnforty]

Dropping the power will definately require you to re-enter the code which should be available from the original documentation. My local Ford dealer wants �23 + vat to retrieve the code from the radio. I think the code is retrievable from the serial number of the radio by applying some sort of algorithm. This is usually done using a computer. I have a similar problem for which I will post a new enquiry. Why on earth we need keycodes for 10+ year old standard Ford radios beats me! Why can't the keycode requirement self destruct after 10 years?