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Subject:Re: 2.1 water cooled need suggestions as to why the oil alarm is on
From:Allan Streib
Date:Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:05:24 -0400

"Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> said:

> on the radio...........is it an original VW type radio, and
> specifically......is there a symbol on it shaped like a key ?
> if there is, it's a 'code radio' and if power is removed from it
> ..............as in changing out a battery.........
> you need a code, and to know how to enter it, to get the radio to work
> again.  On some of them the code is 1-1-1-1 .....

Ah I misread the original post, I thought he said the radio would NOT
turn on.  Yes I forgot about the VW Code radios.  On the one I had in my
'91 Jetta, the dealer wrote the code on the top of the radio, might try
sliding it out and looking around on the case to see if there's a
4-digit number written there.

Usually they say "Code" in the display when this happens, as I recall.

Allan