Originally Posted by MrChad
The dealer in ? must be a tight as prick..no afence to you BTW.
Honda can track the last tiny small as bolt on the tranny.
They know the day-hour-minute your endcaps got torqued to spec if need be. They know the exact day your tires were made and mounted stock.
They know when and if shift changed happened while building your car.
They (Honda) sure as hell knows the stock OE Radio code via the VIN# every single thing about the build of your car dates back to the VIN#.
Dealers making you pull the radio must be pricks that just want to give you a hard time. My dealer made me a spare key based on my VIN# they didn't even ask to see my stock key, if they can cut a key from the VIN# do you think they can reset the radio?
I'm not meaning to rant BTW...I saying this all happy like.
Here's the problem I had about three years ago, I bought a deck off ebay, the damn fool scammed me and I think it was a hot deck as it looked as if someone had ripped it out (literally, as all the mounting braces off the deck where bent and tore up). I called Houston police first to see if I can get a police rep to visit this member, and they basically where about as much help as an ice maker in Alaska. Then called local police, again no help. So I called Honda of america, tried pleading my case, but they said they have no way of figuring out what deck a car was installed into. They told me they can tell you what kind of deck was originally in the vehicle based on VIN#, but radio numbers, they don't keep track of. The unit is still sitting at home pretty much useless so if anyone wanna buy this CD/Cassette combo...pretty much the CD unit powers up, but won't accept CDs, and the cassette lord only knows, never tested it. Any offers are accepted (and no I won't pay you to take it off my hands either).