salvaged radio

[yurchefe]

I have a 1999 9-3 convertable, and my radio is not working properly. I found a radio on ebay, real cheap, the only problem is that it has been pullled from another car, same year, make and model. I called the dealer to find out how difficult it would be to get the security code, from the vin# that comes with the radio, and they told me the radio has to be "unmarried" from the car by a computer, and then take it to the dealer to be installed and "married" to my car. Is this true or just a way for the dealer to make money?

[hawaiisaab93]

no b/c im putting a after market stereo in my car..and my 93 radio will have to be taken to the local dealer and remarried is someone else wants to use it...Roto can actually explain this real well he told me about it

[Roto]

if the radio was not "divorsed" from the original car it bbecomes a useless piece of junk. I promise that it will be unusable. The radio has to be divorsed from a ar using a Tech2