RE: Computer and radio problems

["Ryan Sabir" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you fiddle with the numbers three times and get it wrong you need
to wait an hour before you can try again with the correct codes...
This means an hour of uninterrupted power to the radio. The same thing
happenned to me when I got my car back from a mechanic... I fiddled
with the numbers... then I found the correct number in my
documentation but it still wouldn't work.. then I found this article:

http://www.koalamotorsport.com/tech/radio.code.htm

So I went for a long drive to my mums place and after that I was able
to enter the code properly.

My radio code was actually scribbled in pencil in the owners manual,
so I can't tell you what the document to look for looks like.


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Ryan Sabir
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bmw@domain.elided [mailto:owner-bmw@domain.elided]On
> Behalf Of M3
> Buzz
> Sent: Monday, 19 November 2001 10:45 AM
> To: richardcoker@domain.elided
> Cc: bmw-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: Computer and radio problems
>
>
> Richard - it's looking for the anti-theft code, which must
> be entered after a
> loss of power to the radio.  hopefully you have the owner's
> manual and
> associated papers...somewhere in there, you should have a
> manual for the radio
> and/or at least a sheet that shows the anti-theft code.
> bmw suggests keeping
> this away from the car, so if you're not the original owner
> and the paperwork
> isn't in the car, i'm guessing bmw na has a way around
> this...not sure, but
> that would be my next step.  good luck.  i know i couldn't
> take it too long
> with no tunes!
> Tom
>
> >of course the light didn't go off but WORSE the radio said enter
> >code and I entered a bunch of numbers not knowing the code
> (The dealer
> >told me this would happen but I would just lose my station
> presets) But
> >now all I get on my radio is "CODE WAIT".
>
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