hey everyone my name is Craig from
flying wheels welcome to my flying
wheels youtube channel I have a Hummer
h2 that I'm replacing the radio on this
radio is the same from 99 to about 2006
in all Chevy and GM trucks works with
the Cadillac Escalades works with the
h2s the 1500 Silverados the 2500
Silverados the Yukons the Tahoe's all of
them are pretty much the same
plug-and-play radio the problem is these
radios are encoded to the VIN of the
vehicle they're programmed to a previous
vehicle so if you try to swap out a
radio there's an anti-theft device
inside internally in the radio that
won't allow you to plug the radio into a
new vehicle and let it work so you'll
see here it just says locked
well again like I said it's
plug-and-play so you plug it in and the
radio powers up but I'm getting no sound
out of it a lot of times what I've read
on the Internet is if I press one in for
and hold a code will come up you can
call an 800 number or I've read that you
can hold 2 & 3 a number comes up on the
radio display you can call the 800
number they give you the code again the
other option is to go to GM and have
them program the new radio to the new
VIN of the new vehicle well it's $150 so
if you don't wanna spend the hundred
fifty dollars I'm going to show you
today how to cheat the radio to get it
to work in your new car the first thing
we're gonna do after we remove the radio
is flip the radio upside down and we're
gonna pry the bottom cover off just by
taking a small flathead screwdriver and
prying this hole over the nipples on all
sides of the radio well this radio has a
tape deck so with some 5 millimeter
bolts we just took them out we're gonna
pull this forward and right here this
piece right there is what we'll be
removing that is the EEPROM eep are OEM
and try that out and see if it work so
here it is right here we just kind of
wiggled it out I'm gonna remove it so if
you don't have a tape deck you wouldn't
have had to remove and replace this but
obviously make sure when you put the
tape deck back in its face the right way
otherwise you're not gonna really get
you cassettes back in there if you still
have cassettes now here is the part
right here let's see where is it on the
camera right there part number is
three five five oh nine three I believe
okay well we have it plugged in start
the car up is gonna say locked
it does not say locked it's gonna suit
the DVD out I mean I had a let's see
what was in here need to breathe by
rivers in the wasteland turn on
calibration error that should go away in
a second and there we go we have our
radio so that is how you unlock the
radio now fair warning I did read that
it may not memorize your presets I'm not
sure about that and I guess calibration
error is gonna have to come up every
time so if we go to 98.1 let's see if we
hold it I think we have it memorized
let's try again
alright 98.1 we'll shut it off start it
up again
does it remember we were on 98.1 yep it
doesn't remember your presets that's the
only drawback to this hopefully this
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much everyone