Bought a used radio at a junk yard after mine died didn't think of get the code off the car but car is long gone now. Call around to several dealers they won't give the code over the phone and want 65 and up for the code. My radio serial number is vwz4z6p3726501k tried my old radio code but it didn't work. Appreciate any help I'm in Conroe, Tx and I'm close to Houston if anybody know a dealership that won't give me the run around.
Need help getting radio code
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boertje
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Good luck with that. Its the dealer or There are places on ebay that can give codes cheap although i’ve not used one.
DivineChaos
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I used evilbay for a code. Worked great
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Do you still need the code?
pkhoury
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Yup, ebay is the way to go. One guy I did business on ebay now let's me just message him on whatsapp. Send him a picture of my serial tag, paypal him 5 bucks, and he'll get me a code. I've sold nice RNS-315 and RCD-510 pulled from the junkyard on ebay this way. 
Yes I do need the code and thanks for all the replies I've been trying to find a dealer that will deal with me and not charge an hour of labor I have the radio serial number but not the original Vin number off the car the radio was pulled from. VWZ4Z6P3726501K
pkhoury
That guy with the goats
Go on ebay and just pay someone for a code. Costs like $5-7. I've done this many many times for the RCD-510, RNS-315 and RNS-510 and had a 100% success rate. Supposedly, they're still derived from dealers, but in Europe. I don't ask how they get the PIN and don't care, so long as it works.
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Doesn't need to be *the* VIN of the car that the radio came from, just *a* VIN.
Used to be pretty easy, but chatting with the local VW techs, they can only get it now by going through VW's dealer internet portal. They actually need to connect to a car, run their diagnostics (assuming it's ODIS), and then request the code by supplying the radio's serial number.
For sure, it's not an hour of labour, but it's not as simple as punching digits into a computer either. $10-20 on eBay would be the route I'd take, for sure.
Used to be pretty easy, but chatting with the local VW techs, they can only get it now by going through VW's dealer internet portal. They actually need to connect to a car, run their diagnostics (assuming it's ODIS), and then request the code by supplying the radio's serial number.
For sure, it's not an hour of labour, but it's not as simple as punching digits into a computer either. $10-20 on eBay would be the route I'd take, for sure.