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Old 12-29-2003, 12:44 PM
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Default Dealer charging $100+ for radio code?!?!?

called the dealership today... i need the code to get my radio out of safe mode... charge is $100+!!! perhaps it's time to put in the aftermarket stereo.. hmm...
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try a different dealer if possible. My dealer charges nothing
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call another dealer
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Screw That!

That's just rediculous. I hope that $100. fee includes a BJ from the receptionist.
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Agree...another dealer.
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Capitalist pigs!!!
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Call another dealer, that's crap!! : p
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you giving them your radio serial# + service guy making a phone call or two doesn't = $100

even if they pull the radio themselves to obtain the serial#, that fee is still an insult.
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Default Don't the put the radio code in your audi booklet (glove compartment)

or in the sticker in your trunk by your spare?
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Free at my dealer...


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