2010 Fab 2 recently acquired has, after a month of ownership, suddenly decided to spit its dummy out and looks like it has lost the radio coding/pairing with the clocks. What might cause it to do this and is there any chance it will restore by disconnecting the battery for half an hour? None of the doc pack includes a code and the radio manual suggests if you ever do need one you have to ask your dealer (for a reaming, no doubt). If the battery thing doesn't work, can VCDS or VAGCOM interrogate the car and find the code?

The radio should not require recoding if not removed from the car, unless the battery went completely flat.

 

VCDS cannot retrieve the radio code,

 

you could remove it and see "if" someone has ever written it on the case (it does happen a lot), failing that, get the P/N and S/N off the sticker once removed and there is places online and Ebay which can get the code for a modest fee of around  £11.... example below with 100% money back should it not work, even without that, the Ebay money back guarantee means you have nothing to lose

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324401304812

 

Some dealers "may" also do it for free........

Edited 4 January, 20233 yr by UrbanPanzer

Battery hadn't gone flat and car never felt like it was struggling to start. Removed radio and unplugged / replaced connector, checked cables (all ok), switched on again and still got SAFE message and code entry. Noted the serial number and sent it off to one of these eBay vendors, refitted it all, switched it on again and it went straight to radio! 🙄

 

Got the code shortly after so later on had to remove it all again to power it off so that I could test the code. All fine in that regard, so if it is some weird intermittent fault at least I can restart. Went looking through last messages for @Rustynuts as was considering upgrading the 310 from the Octy and putting that into the Fab, but see his circumstances have changed and that might not be as easy through other means.