VW Beta Radio Codes

Turn the ignition and the radio on. The display shows SAFE, then 1000 by itself. Set the digits with station buttons 1 to 4: button 1 changes the first digit, button 2 the second and so on, and each press moves the digit up by one. The first digit starts at 1 and the others at 0, so for a code of 4573 you press button 1 three times, button 2 five times, button 3 seven times and button 4 three times. When your code is on the display, press the seek rocker to the right and keep it pressed until you hear a brief sound. On a Beta from before May 1998, 1000 does not appear by itself: hold TP and TA together until it does, set the digits the same way, then hold TP and TA together again until SAFE shows.

The Beta was the standard cassette radio across 1990s and 2000s VWs, including the Golf, Polo, Passat and Caddy. The 14 character serial beginning VWZ is printed on the label on the radio casing. Our Volkswagen radio code page covers all of them.

No. The Beta always asks for the same code after any power loss. The code we supply is generated from the radio's serial number and stays valid for the life of the unit.

No. Component protection is a different lock from the radio code. Newer Volkswagen infotainment systems use it. It is tied to the car's own systems, so no radio code clears it. A radio code is for a radio that shows SAFE or asks for a four digit code. If that is what yours does, enter its serial above and we will retrieve your code.