Stereo Safe Mode

[VW GTI]

My stereo said "SAFE" when I turned my car on tonight, then a couple seconds later changed to say "1000".

Does anyone know what would have caused this and what I can do to fix it?

Will this be something a dealer will have to sort?

[Adam]

that usually happen when the battery died. its a security thing for the headunit.


They should have given you a card when your car was delivered with the headunit number and a security code. just put that in.

[VW GTI]

That's what I thought, but the battery is fine, car started fine.

When I hopped in again tonight it came up with "LEARN". I turned it off thinking something was wrong then on again a little later and it worked fine, all stations were still programmed and everything.

Weird, all seems fine now.

[PogoAmy]

It's happened to me once already.

My weirdest stereo incident, however, was hopping into Pogo, shutting the door and the stereo came on. I still had the key in my hand...

Mercifully it's not happened since - it was a bit too poltergeisty for my liking!

Cheers!
PogoAmy.

[Blitzen]

It's happened to me once already.

My weirdest stereo incident, however, was hopping into Pogo, shutting the door and the stereo came on. I still had the key in my hand...

Mercifully it's not happened since - it was a bit too poltergeisty for my liking!

Cheers!
PogoAmy.

Maybe an excorsisim(spelling??) is in order for your car!!

I have had my stereo dump all its frequency presets and swallow a cd on me...I just disconnected the negative earth on the battery terminal, and reset it...no dramas since. Freakily/funnily enough that same day I had my computer let all its smoke out and refuse to play...I think its cos I didn't forward on that chain letter...!!!

[Cygnus]

When I hopped in again tonight it came up with "LEARN". I turned it off thinking something was wrong then on again a little later and it worked fine, all stations were still programmed and everything.

This has happened to me at least twice now, and I've had the car for 8 months.

It's happened to me once already.

My weirdest stereo incident, however, was hopping into Pogo, shutting the door and the stereo came on. I still had the key in my hand...

A similar thing has happened to me once, after shutting off the engine, and pulling the key out, the radio turned off. When I opened the door to get out, the radio turned back on. I had to manually turn off the radio, but the next time I started the car, I had to manually turn on the radio.

Other annoyances are that my radio forgets which channel it was sitting on every now and then and always reverts to WSFM...

[VW GTI]

Yeah, mine has reverted to 97.3 or some crappy station a few times when I would never listen to that.

[VEEDUB69]

that usually happen when the battery died. its a security thing for the headunit.


They should have given you a card when your car was delivered with the headunit number and a security code. just put that in.

Whats this card thing you got for the stereo, I never got anything like that? Then again they gave me Golf books until I went back half hour after delivery & got a Polo GTI set

[m.camo]

stereo prob

I to have had some weird stuff happen to mine , sometimes it wont turn on , and other times it turns on but the screen stays blank .
the manuel i got is in spain and for a golf too .

[VEEDUB69]

Btw, checked with service dept they advised me they dont give out these cards anymore but that its "not a problem because you just bring it back here if you need to" quote 'Werribee Volkswagen'. Yeah, so they can charge you $$$ for your trouble