Recently, the battery in my car died. It died the day of Meredith's birthday party, so I took her car out to run errands. I jumped it Monday morning, hoping that was all it was, but by Monday evening, it was quite dead.
Fine. I ignored it for a few days, either biking into work or getting Meredith to run me in, until Thursday morning when I bought a new battery and took it into work to change there. All was well. Except --
I no longer could use my stereo. I turned it on, and since it had been disconnected from power, it wanted the security code. Oops. The last time I had the card with that code on it was 3 or 4 years ago, the last time I changed the battery. That was before we moved. Hmm.
I thought I remembered the first two digits of the five-digit code, so I tried entering codes that sounded right. Then I discovered the extra security feature where after three wrong entries, it wouldn't take any more for some long period of time. This wasn't going to work.
So then I called the original dealer. Amazingly, they still had the stereo code on file, seven and a half years after buying the car.
So today: music, sweet music!
Posted by Mike at September 6, 2002 06:32 PM