Aaaarg! Battery went dead and now my radio says "code".

The battery died in my 87 850 estate and now my radio is locked. The
previous owner didn't have the code. Any idea how I can resurrect my radio?

Guy

 

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,

Assuming it's the original radio, the records are held centrally by Volvo -
and accessible to any Volvo dealer, who should be able to tell you provided
you have reasonable proof of ownership. There may be a fee, of course!
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If you go to a Volvo dealer with all of your ownership paperwork and
convince them that it really is your car, they should be able to get the
code for you. Hopefully.

 

local volvo dealer

 

Do you have the original manual and documents that came with the car
when the original owner bought it?

The code should be there; on my wife's car, the original owner wrote
down the four digit code.

 

Hi Mr. V.,

Doesn't that rather defeat the purpose of the code? .............. writing
the code into the Owner's Manual, if the Manual is kept in the glove
compartment.

Just a thought

Andy I.


: Do you have the original manual and documents that came with the car
: when the original owner bought it?
:
: The code should be there; on my wife's car, the original owner wrote
: down the four digit code.

 

That's because the smart ones keep the manual at home and not in the
car. Me too, the previous owner wrote the code on the cover page of
the manual. I can even tell you what it is 4464.

If one is patient, there are only 1,296 possibilities (6 X 6 X 6 X 6)

 

It's not a great idea, but most thieves just take the stereo and
run. Only the smart ones stop to grab the owner's manual too.

 

Dear friends, now I am going to tell you a more convenient way to keep
the anti-theft code for your stereo. You should write the code onto your
stereo's specs tag glued upper side. My car's previous owner told
me that original stereo was broken, so he had bought a second hand volvo
stereo. Later I've started to look for the code but there were no luck.
Asked previous owner on phone and he replied: I don't know. One day I've
decided to check sockets for a completely different purpose and pulled
down the stereo. The code was lying there all the time. Thats how I've
met my code at very first time

p.s. of course immediately after I've erased it and changed with a fake
crypted version (a simple caesar shift)

Andy yazmýþ:

 

The smart ones don't pinch a 20 year old radio with a cassette player....

Steve H

 

I bought a 960 radio at a wrecker went into Volvo dealership nearby
and they told me they could do nothing for me (even though I had a
receipt and the yellow paint was still on the radio). I tried another
dealership and they were happy to help and had it for me in a few
minutes. A word of warning if you enter the wrong code more than
three times the radio goes in to safe mode and you need to leave the
key on with vehicle off for several hours( the manual describes this
procedure)...this can be a pain if you think you remember the code and
plug away at it.

 

When that happened to me, I wen t to the dealer and they gave me the
code -- for free no less.

Chuck Fiedler
Nothing but Volvo since 1974

 

I should add that I replaced this radio/casette with a cd player the
moment after I bought my 93 240 in 2001.

For a mere $200, I got a Pionner that plays all my CDs. You might
want to buy one with a detachable front plate. Dumb thieves broke
into the car to steal it, when they realised it had no front plate,
they left. Cost me a new window. Thieves were too dumb to a) look
through the window and see that there was not front plate and b) too
dumb to use a coat hanger to unlock the door without making any noise.
I believe this thief (ves) have a bright future in a jail somewhere.

 

That's always frustrating. Most of those people are addicts, if they're not
high at the time, they've fried a good portion of their brain cells, from a
few that I've known, the common sense seems to be the first thing to go.

As for stereos, I've swapped out the factory units in both of my cars as
well, however it's getting more difficult by the day to find one that isn't
absolutely garish. My little brother bought one for his car that we thought
looked relatively clean and simple but it turned out to be backlit by
blinding blue LEDs so bright that they interfere with night vision.

 

Thanks for all the advice folks!

 

On my friends car it was written on the radio its self which we found after
much frustration ...

 

I purchased some software that helps to decode the code based on the
resistor layout inside the radio. Sadly the individual that sold me
the software from ebay "forgot" to remove the virus that was in with
the software.

Regardless, my antivirus software removed the virus I used the
software and it was the best $5 I spent. Worked a treat on both
Volvo Radio's (though one had, had wrong numbers entered too many
times so I had to cover up the circuit boards contacts with aluminum
foil to clear the wrong codes from the memory.

Or you could give Volvo $80....


steve_4fun hotmail com

 

that diode layout based calculation works only for Volvo CR-705 and
CR-905 stereos. Despite you're thinking that deal was the best for $5,
you wasted your money anyway, cause these calculators can be downloaded
for free from any p2p or sharing community. You should've asked here
before making someone earn 5 bucks for nothing than one would (for ex.
me) mail you gladly for free.
Cheers...