Razzoo

The crappy dealer installed alarm went off a few Sundays ago. Fortunately it did so while I was eating dinner. So I disconnected the negative cable from the battery but reconnected the trickle charger to the battery. Fast forward a few weeks and I get ready to take the car outside to take photos for the for sale ad. I connect the cable and the alarm goes of as it should. I disable it with the unlock button on the remote and start the car. I get it outside and I look down and the radio display says BAD or it could be BRD. It doesn't work. I search it out on the internet and all I could find is that with the battery disconnected and no power through the lighter for the radio to retain it's memory, it now has to be coded to get it working.

So does anybody have the code? This is the premium radio. Not the stock radio that is covered in the owners manual, nor the first upgrade in the supplement but the next one up.

Thanks
Razzoo

drhoward

If it's a Ford radio you might need to get it from a dealership. I don't know about the mustang stereos but I've had factory decks replaced in other cars and they gave me a code after the work was done.

08'MustangDude

If you need a code, has to come from the dealer if you cannot find the radio card.

Also, it's still a STOCK ford radio, you mean it's not a BASE trim level radio...

08'MustangDude

I forgot to add, that if you need a code, then that radio may have been installed after the fact.
Pull it and see if they happened to write the code down on the top of the radio, like on one of
the labels. If that radio came with the car, it should not be asking for a code. If it did, then
it did not communicate with the dash module to match VINs. With the car on, pull the fuse
for the radio, then plug it back in. If it's the radio the car came with, it should then communicate
over CAN and VIN match.