Vauxhall car radio

[banana]

I stupidly took out my car radio to put into a friends car to see if the connections worked.Only when the radio was plugged into the other car did I see the horrible display *CODE* flashing at me. I donbt have the code for my radio ( the other car does of course -sods law) since it was 6th hand a couple of years ago. To get it uncoded at the main dealers will be about �10 . Any way round it?

[BadBob]

Doubt it. Not much point having it if you can get round it. �10 seems pretty cheap as it was going to be �30 for my ford one.

[football]

�10 is a good value deal, take it. The radio was 6th hand, so pay for your messing around. Buy a better radio. If you had the code you get six attempts, then shuts down for 20 minutes then increasingly longer periods at failed attempts.

[sddsddean]

When I had a company car, the Ford dealer always used to stick the label with the code number on under the ashtray. Just check in case this is a common practice.

[Janetex]

I've given up taking my care in to get the radio re-coded, even though it is free. It's a stupid idea IMHO.

[Hippy]

Having just spent nearly �1,000 after some toe-rag smashed my car window, scratching paint, levering with tools, wrecking facsia, and eventually only hoofing it with the front panel, I should think that anything that deters the litle s*ds is a good thing.

I thought that coded radios are a good thing as the tykes that thieve the radios only get �30 or so for them if they're lucky (whereas to buy new could be hundred or more) and they are not going to dilute their profit getting the code thing sorted. My previous car had no less a tasty radio, but was coded and a small sticker to that effect on the window and it was never touched in nearly eight years.

[banana]

Thanks for the answers. The radio isnt particularly wonderful +the cassette doesnt work either ! Which was why Im loath to pay for getting it reset.I had heard about the freezing but didnt want to try it unless someone had had a good result. Appreciate that it is a security measure but really the car and radio combined are worth very little. sddsddean - I did look hopefully but sadly nothing :( Looks like I'll have to keep on enjoying the silence till the car goes to the great wreckers in the sky.......unless ...Janetex .Where do you get it done free?