I FORGOT MY PASSWORD IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY TO BYPASS THIS...PLEASE HELP...I TRIED RESETTING IT BUT THAT DOESNT WORK...IT IS THE INITIAL SETUP PASSWORD WHERE IT ASKS U THE HINT QUESTION...PLEASE HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP.....

Nope. Theft deterents are a bitch aren't they?

Tell me the hint question

WHAT IS THE MAKE OR MODEL OF YOUR FIRST CAR?.....THAT WAS THE QUESTION I CAN PUT IT IN A LONG TIME AGO AND CANT REMEMBER....PLEASE HELPPPPPP......

How do you not remember your first car? Also, don't use CAPS LOCK.

Thats awesome. Do you truely not remember your first car, or did you lie to the D3 for fun when you set up the security question?

Or do you not know the first car of the poor bastard whose D3 you jacked?

WHAT IS THE MAKE OR MODEL OF YOUR FIRST CAR?.....THAT WAS THE QUESTION I CAN PUT IT IN A LONG TIME AGO AND CANT REMEMBER....PLEASE HELPPPPPP......

That's what I thought -- there's no way this is actually yours. Chances are you either stole it or got it from someone who did. Sad really.

And for the record, there is no way to bypass the anti-theft password. I only asked what the question was to prove my point. If it was yours, you'd know the answer.

If you do in fact have proof of purchase, then I take it all back. Feel free to send it in to Pioneer, with proof of purchase, and they'll basically reflash it with their own special tools.

I am probably twice the age of most of you(52 in June) and I can remember my first car(76 Gran Prix).Gas was 50 cent a gallon.Did I tell you we walked 20 miles to school, barefoot?

this just so classic, karma is a muther f*cker

SORRY TO DISAPPOINT U BUT I DIDNT STEAL THIS RADIO I HAVE IT INSTALLED IN MY HONDA ACCORD AND THE PROBLEM IS I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MISSPELLED IT OR PUT IN A TRICK ANSWER AND TRULY DONT REMEMBER...I BOUGHT THIS RADIO FROM BEST BUY BACK IN THE SUMMER AND SOMEONE WAS FIXING MY CAR AND MUST HAVE RESET THE WHOLE RADIO CAUSE WHEN I WENT TO PICK IT UP THE MESSAGE WAS THERE WASNT ANY DISC OR COULDNT READ THE DISK AND WHEN I CALLED PIONEER THEY TOLD ME I HAD TO PULL THE RADIO OUT AND SEND IT OUT TO THEM...WHY WOULD I STEAL A RADIO....WOMP WOMP WOMP GROW UP...

Damn Julius now I feel really poor. I am 33 and my first car was a 72 Catalina, lol.

As for karma being a MOFO, maybe he should watch "my name is earl" he would learn.

STOP YELLING, get rid of the caps, man that is annoying. Well you got your answer didn't you. Pull the radio out and send it in. Your not scared that the id numbers are already registered under a different name at Pioneer are you???

Why the hell would you put in a trick answer? How would a thief guess your first car?

Let's end this. I don't care how you got it. Maybe you stole it, maybe you diddn't.

Either way, There's NO WAY to bypass the anti-theft lockout. It's built into the firmware and no amount of soldering, wiring, or button mashing is going to change that.

Pioneer needs to reflash the unit. If you can prove to them it's yours, call them up and send it in. If you cannot do that, you're screwed. Period.

Wow. I just set the security question for mine yesterday using this same question. I hope I put in the right car I'm severely ****ed if I get amnesia, though

Oh wait! My wife and members of my immediate family would know what my first car was...so I'm safe.

If you are going to set a password, write down not only the password, but also the answer to the security question in your user's manual. Keep the manual in your house somewhere. That way, if you need it, you will have it. And if you sell the unit, give them the owner's manual as well, so they will have it for when they hook it up. That way the only people who will have anything to worry about would be thieves.

And yeah, if you don't have the password or the answer to the security question, you will HAVE TO send it to Pioneer WITH proof of ownership or there's nothing that can be done.

When I attempted to set the PW, it didn't allow me to set a PW, only the answer to the security question. The PW button was grayed out. I assumed the security answer was actually the PW

Heading out now to figure out what I did wrong.

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you didnt' do anything wrong. That IS the password. The question is simply a hint to help you remember. You don't have to put in the actual answer as the password.

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Forgetting that I set a password, I was greeted by the prompt when I took the HU out to try to fix my SWI-PS install. Thankfully, the PW was easy to remember...but it did make my heart jump for a brief moment.

ss number is always easy to remember, and NOBODY should have that except someone who does your taxes...

ss number is always easy to remember, and NOBODY should have that except someone who does your taxes...

What if you've got a thieving CPA? haha

You guys gotta be kidding me. Is it 1968 Gran Prix, 1968 Grand Prix, Grand Prix, Gran Prix, '68 Gran Prix, '68 Grand Prix? Let's throw Pontiac in there with all those combinations, and let's hope you didn't misspell something (Chevrolet, Porsche, Mercedes). Was it the first car you owned, including that rust bucket that you never got running? There are many reasons to forget something like this.

I've learned to use a simple word that I'll always remember for instances like this, but that's because I got burnt once (mothers maiden name, easy enough to guess so I used something else and forgot).

And if you do a search, you'll learn that Pioneer doesn't keep track of any of the serial numbers for being stolen anyways. Not like I'm letting the cat outta the bag with that one...

Wow Capt. Bringdown, I guess you don't remember the first car you had cause you didn't get laid in it? Just joking, but come on, how hard is it to really remember your first car?

And the SS number thing? Don't go to a University because that is your student number and just about everyone can get that, as a matter of fact it is used in everything and everywhere you go and use your student ID. My University even sold our student information to company's. SS numbers are very easy to obtain. Just use something that is special to you and only you, then the thiefs won't be able to get back into your radio.

Letting the cat out of the bag would be mentioning certain programs/tools that allow you to crack the codes and reset theinformation, they are out there and not hard to get if you are willing to pay for them.

Believe it or not, I set a password using the name of my first car, and forgot how I entered it. After a bit of swearing and frustration, I wrote down the year, make, model, trim level of my car and kept trying combinations until I hit on it. The first thing I did after that was shut off this feature. I now call this the "spite feature" as in "if I can't use it you can't either". If it's stolen, I'll have bigger issues than whether the SOB who stole it can use it.

I left my unit off as I though the security feature on this unit is too easy to get myself into trouble as you can pick any password and since it's not something you use unless power is cut it can be easy fo forget how you spelled it would have been safer to pick a code number like kenwood ...