Anyone know where the best place to get the Factory Radio Codes to reset the Stereo if I disconnect the battery?

 

only place is the dealer

 

its in your glove box

hopefully you still have all literature that came with the car - the bose book has a little flap on the inside of it with some numbers - thats you code - each radio is different on how you actually get the numbers into the radio -

If you don't have your radio manual then you will have to go to the dealer - pay them the fee to hook it up to a computer and then they can tell you

 

I know when my radio went into safe mode, people told me to check the manual, under the spare in the trunk, on the stock amp or cd changer, but none of those places worked. Luckily my neighbor was a salesman at the dealership. Brought it in, someone took my headunit out and wrote down some number on that. they then looked up the code on the computer and called me an hour later with it. If you have the correct tools to remove the radio I would try that, call the dealership and see what they can do. Im guessing they will charge you to pull it out, so you might as well save some money on that.

 

Found it...thanks akielb. It was on the inside cardboard flap of the Symphony Manual...never even been used.

 

Excellent, you just saved 100 dollars. Most people are not so lucky. I have a memory reserved power source for issues like this.

 

Very lucky. That's just about the worst thing to go to the stealership for. It's their easiest money.

 

I guess the dealers can charge what they want to charge because it's service that they are providing. I hate dealerships.

With my last car I just took the radio out, wrote down the Serial number, took that to the dealership and they gave me the code for free. I did this twice cause being an idiot I lost the paper where I wrote it on the first time.

 

what i did was have my girlfriend call the audi headquarters, she acted dumb and they gave her the code and the directions for free.

 

^^^genius. luckily mine was in the manual