Ford 2006R yet again!!!

**barbarian** · 10th April 2004

Yeh, another one... Surprisingly, I can't believe how many of these you can find... Anyway, let's get to the problem:

Problem Description: Ford's audio box, as you already know, says "2006R" on the front panel.
Detailed Description: when powered on, the display proudly shines "TEN". In green. Wow.

Addendum (more like addendoom):

Please note this one has been hanging around our house for ages and since I finally bought myself a car, I have some plans with it. So yesterday I powered it up and the thing counted from 30 minutes downwards. Sure, after finished, the radio did not blew up, but asked for a code. And I bluntly provided one. Wrong one, of course. And guess what - hehe, I was the fortunate person to accomplish this foolish task for the tenth time: the unit locked itself up! Crap!

Time to panic:

For crying out loud, is there any cheap and civilized (soldering, desoldering ICs) way to unlock this beast, or is it time to run to more conventional methods -- putting the unit into a freezer for a while might erase mem - or so I have been told. However, I will only try this after couple of days, and if no one comes up with a better idea.

I am also politely asking someone to provide me with the unlock code for it in case I miraculously succeed to get it working (asking for it, the code, *******) again. The info on unit is:

Model no.: Ford 2006R, Made in Portugal
Serial no.: M069692
Part no.: 94FP-18K876-GA
Processor: Texas Instruments N760050BFKC004
EEPROM (I believe): National Semiconductor (48AF)71005TB, 8-pin

That's it. Thank you very much!

**mech-elec** · 10th April 2004

Hi your code is 1154 but if the wrong code has been entered 10 times then the only way is to have it manually decoded.
Some Ford units allowed 13 attempts but if its not counting down from 30 mins then I think thats it

**chrisboy** · 12th April 2004

Have you tried holding SELECT and MANUAL together??

Chris

**barbarian** · 13th April 2004

Hi everybody!

This is what I did:

I actually unsoldered the small EEPROM chip that "supposedly held the code", powered up the unit without it, and it still didn't budge. So I thought - what the hell - and put the radio into the deep freezer, together with the meat&stuff. Seriously. ...Waited a day, then tried again. No luck. A single damn bit didn't change in that stupid micro, refused to please me, bas -- well, enough - I'll be censored again

And then... Wow!!! - What a nice tip Chris gave me! Chris, man, it worked! And the code mech-elech provided worked, too! Wahoo!

Thank you so much, chaps! I got to remember both of you, I owe you a drink. : And now, gentlemen, excuse me -- I am headed straight for my Audi! Enjoy!

Matt

And by the way, to anyone interested: http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/ has a scanned manual for this radio!