I have commented before that a number of these must be stolen you can buy a cd on fleabay with all the codes on but surely it should not be made easy for them by just replying to any request.

I myself have always given radio codes to Forum Members in good faith. I wish to make that perfectly clear.

I suppose it's possible that some of them may-well be for stolen radios, but I have no way of knowing whether requests are from genuine sources or not. I would hope that all requests are, indeed, genuine.

These are not now state-of-the-art radios. I remember when I bought my first Mondeo, a replacement 6000 was going to cost about £300 if I had to replace it. Now they are about £30 on Ebay; quite honestly, they're hardly worth stealing for that!

If Forum Members think I should stop giving out codes then I'm quite happy to stop; it is a lot of work! The code generator which I and other HJ Forum Members use to generate codes from serial numbers is freely available on the internet; that's where I originally obtained it from when another FM posted the link.

Codes are readily available from advertisers on Ebay, anyway, or from Ford Main Dealers.

I am quite happy to help any Ford owners with code requests,provided a new thread is started for each radio and not tagged onto an existing one.I think that most are Fords because these are the easiest to access by most garages/workshops,usually for free.I am able to get codes for most other makes,but usually involves a phone call and a fee,so not really suitable for a forum like this.

if you paid a scrap yard £30 for a GM cd30 and it didnt come with the code so you couldnt check it was working properly,

why would you buy it?

These radios are quite cheap in the UK although scroats still steal them for their next fix, they are still worth a lot of money in eastern block countries and are stolen by gangs operating in the west along with other items and shipped back,I have noticed one of the requests for codes has been made with a German,French or Eastern block computer and to my mind is very suspect.these computers have extra lettters on them such as Ö Ü Ä ..

Its not very funny when they break into your car and steal the radio causing untold damage.They are not stealing 1 or 2 in certain areas its quite an epidemic I know there are many ways to get the codes but I for one would not sleep at night if I thought I had helped these low life.

If they smash dash to get them out they must be stupid scroats/vandals,its quicker to use correct tool.

And ford radios are useless worthless units M series anyway,but then I dont like Fords