August 2021
Hi
We’ve recently bought our daughter her first car. It’s a Ford Ka 2011.
It’s a lovely little car, however, the radio doesn’t work and the code given to us with the car doesn’t work.
The radio is a Fiat B420 Low and the serial number is 5230282232231004204335.
There are other numbers on the label but none work when we put them in to the code generators online.
Apart from an expensive visit to Ford, is there any other way of getting the code?
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