Re: bmw-digest V9 #2004

[lswain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 21 Dec 2001 at 15:37, bmw-digest wrote:

> Second, the {5351} radio won't accept the code. After the fifth digit 
> it just beeps and continues to say "enter code" (or whatever the
> message is). I've had to enter the code in the past, and it took just
> fine.
> 
> Any thoughts? Thanks much.
> 
> Steve

Steve:

I brought the same problem/same cause re my 1985 528e radio to this 
group last winter.  It would not reset no matter what.

I got all sorts of advice, which was greatly appreciated -- including 
something about removing the radio and leaving it in the refrigerator 
freezer for some period time, then going through a procedure I have 
since forgotten.  I did not do that, in part because the car was 
parked every night in an environment similar to that in my 
refrigerator freezer.

Instead, I got along without the radio for a few days.  Whenever I 
thought about it while driving I would enter the code -- only to he 
told by the radio to enter the code.

Did this over and over, and one day it beeped and started working 
just as it should have.  Not a problem since -- for almost a year.

So that is one approach for you to try.  Just keep entering the code, 
day after day, while driving.

All the best,

Larry Swain
1985 528e (217 K mi, original clutch)

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