Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: Pirvan on 05 February 2011, 18:02:43
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Hi all :)
I've been scurrying about the site before posing a simple question but couldn't find it exactly so here goes.
The reason why I am asking is this is because my car is imported from Italy and thus all manuals and everything is in Italian, which I don't speak a word of.
The problem is that my battery has been dead (human error) and thus the radio gone to safe-mode. After a long time of searching, I've found the radio-code from the prev. owner of the car.
Now I need to enter the bloody thing, only I cannot get to the code entering interface.
Now I found this guide:
ign on (vital)
radio off (vital)
Press & hold AS, turn radio on, release AS after bleep
enter code with 1 2 3 4
press AS to confirm, until bleep
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...but it hasn't worked for me. I turn on the car, turn off the radio, hold AS down and turn the radio on again all the while holding down the AS button. After about a minute the tedium of nothing happening and me holding down the AS button just gets to be a wee bit too much and I let go and back to square one, rlly.
Now over the months I have managed to get in a few times to it, but I just don't know how I did it before!
The car is a 2000 Omega 2.5 V6 and the radio is with a casette deck; on the italian manual for it sporting the text 'Radio CAR 2004' if that helps anyone.
I hope some of you awesomely knowledgable people can help me with the right order of doing things so I can finally listen to radio again.
Thanks in advance, as always! :)
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What does the display say whilst you are doing this?
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If I just turn it on, it says 'SAFE'.
If I then press AS it says '6 SAFE' (I've managed to get in a few times, as I said with what I thought might be codes, hence down to six attempts. Nevertheless, I have the real code now)
If I
- Turn car on
- Turn off radio (it displays time/date)
- Press AS
- Turn on Radio (while keeping AS pressed down, but releasing the OI button after it turns on)
Display now reads '6 SAFE'
- I hold down AS and nothing happens. Trying to let it go still has it on '6 SAFE'
Hope that helps and thank you. :)
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Because you have entered too many incorrect codes, you will now have to leave the radio and the ignition switched on for 2 hours before another code entry attempt is possible.
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Alright, brilliant! Thank you, I'll give it a whirl and see if that won't do the trick! is that 'counter' reset every time I attempt to get to the code-screen or? and is that continuous operation 2 hrs or after a total of 2 hrs of usage?
but anyway thanks! much happiness! You rock! :y
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The counter will only reset after a correct code has been entered - but each wrong code entry will result in you having to wait longer.
PS, the two hour wait with the ignition on is continuous.