Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:40:02 GMT From: <milanihnopsamrs.com> Subject: Re: Radio Anti-Theft Code
unfortuately not , however if you could find out where the car originally sold (original dealer) then they should have the code on file and chances are they will tell you . "MPSchenck" <MPSchencknopsamail.com> wrote in message news:u4os7qdbhtou0bnopsam.supernews.com... > Hello, > Let me start out by giving some background story. I drive a '95 900 SE > V6 4dr. Yesterday on my way to visit my parents (a 2 hour trip) I began to > have an odd gauge problem. When I was maybe a half an hour from my parents > house my tach, speedo, and temp gauge went dead. So I pulled over at a gas > station and shut the car off. When I started the car the same thing > happened except this time all my gauges went to maximum, 7000 RPM, 155 MPH > ect. So I drove the rest of the way to my parents home thinking that any > minute my battery would die due to alternator failure. I made it to the > house without any more problems. My father just happens to be an electrical > engineer and fancies himself a MGA/B collector and restorer. He broke out > all the tools of his trade and went to work. After testing some connections > and "stuff" (things I don't understand) and UNHOOKING MY BATTERY to clean > the battery posts and connecting clamps (because my battery is the one that > originally came on the car in '95). Apparently cleaning the battery posts > and clamps fixed the gauge trouble because I drove the 2 hours back to my > house and didn't have the first problem. But now the point of the story, my > radio needs the anti-theft code and its not in my car. The guy (Danny) I > bought the car from doesn't have the code. I called the dealership > (Thoroughbred Motorcars, in Nashville TN) where Danny bought the car used > and they said they didn't have the code and they said only way to get the > code was to bring the car in and let them take the radio out of the car get > some numbers off the radio and plug the numbers into their computer and then > they could get the code, for a total cost of $49.99. I have to say "HELL > NO!" to that I'll buy a new radio with a CD player (because my Saab radio > doesn't have one) and put that one in in its place. But, before I go that > far is there any other way of finding out that code that one of might know > of? Please Help. > > MPSchenck > >
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