Hi
I have a ford focus (54 plate) Zetec. It came with Bluetooth hands free radio (6000 CD) fitted.
With this I was able to pair up my phone (T mobile MDA vario 2) to the radio and use it hands free
However about a month back for no reason I can determine the thing has stopped working…
It used to sync up within a min or so of driving - if you pressed the phone button on the radio, the name of my phone would appear on the radio display showing it had synced ok, if it hadn't synced it would say "phone unavailable" until it did sync.
Now however all it says is "Mute" when I press the phone button on the radio, even after hours of driving. Calls made and received now come direct to the phone not via the car radio.
I deleted the Bluetooth pairing on my mobile and tried to resync but it couldn’t find the "Ford Audio" which it used to see.
Tried a friends mobile and that didn’t see it also. I know the Bluetooth is ok on my mobile as I use it ok for other devices.
I took it to the local Ford garage to see what they could tell me - the engineer couldn’t see it on his mobile either and said the head unit (Radio) could have lost its settings and would need sending back to Ford for checking (minimum £150, possibly as high as £400 to fix!)
Now call me a skinflint but I don’t fancy forking that out, does anyone have any ideas or other things I could check out on my own to try and fix this?
Thanks, Neill
I have a ford focus (54 plate) Zetec. It came with Bluetooth hands free radio (6000 CD) fitted.
With this I was able to pair up my phone (T mobile MDA vario 2) to the radio and use it hands free
However about a month back for no reason I can determine the thing has stopped working…
It used to sync up within a min or so of driving - if you pressed the phone button on the radio, the name of my phone would appear on the radio display showing it had synced ok, if it hadn't synced it would say "phone unavailable" until it did sync.
Now however all it says is "Mute" when I press the phone button on the radio, even after hours of driving. Calls made and received now come direct to the phone not via the car radio.
I deleted the Bluetooth pairing on my mobile and tried to resync but it couldn’t find the "Ford Audio" which it used to see.
Tried a friends mobile and that didn’t see it also. I know the Bluetooth is ok on my mobile as I use it ok for other devices.
I took it to the local Ford garage to see what they could tell me - the engineer couldn’t see it on his mobile either and said the head unit (Radio) could have lost its settings and would need sending back to Ford for checking (minimum £150, possibly as high as £400 to fix!)
Now call me a skinflint but I don’t fancy forking that out, does anyone have any ideas or other things I could check out on my own to try and fix this?
Thanks, Neill