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FAQ - Bosch Date Codes on Alarm Sirens

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7.5K views 14 replies 6 participants last post by  Steve in Ireland  
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For anyone looking to replace their aging alarm sirens, according to the 7Zap parts website, the Mk2 TT uses PN 1K0 951 605 C for all production years (2007-2014). Thankfully these were all produced by Bosch so there's not a mix of suppliers. However, there's no point buying another C-revision as the NiMH batteries inside will be at least as old (and possibly just as defective) as the ones in your own alarm siren given they only have an 6-8 year* life expectancy.

VAG has since updated the alarm with D and E revisions with the current revision at F (as of Feb 2022). If you don't want to pay the current Audi price quoted me of € 201.91, you can look on reseller sites and check the dates of used alarms to figure out how old the batteries are inside the alarm, assuming the batteries were produced close to the production date of the alarm.

From the photos below taken from different alarms I found on eBay, you can see the part number printed across the top of these alarms. The F-number is probably the manufacturers part number since it's the same for all years. Across the bottom we find HW: (Hardware) and SW: (Software) and all the way to the right is a five digit code. As far as I can tell, this is the date code.
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In this example we have four different alarm date codes; 30421, 49127, 99107 and 79009. If we look these up on the Bosch Manufacturing Date Decoder from 1960-2020, and assuming the last two digits are the day of the month, we can determine the date the alarm siren was produced and the approximate age of NiHM batteries.

49127 = 27 November 2004
79009 = 09 October 2007
99107 = 07 November 2009
30421 = 21 April 2013
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For the latest version of the Bosch Manufacturing Date Decoder, click here.

* As published in the V150HT Data Sheet
 
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@ tttony - According to the published Varta information which you can download here. Of course they can last longer as mine is still working.

1.) Varta Rechargeeable Button Cells NiMH Sales Program and Technical Handbook
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2.) Varta V150HT Data Sheet
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@ Steve - My alarm siren is still the factory fitment from 2007. I'm quite happy mine hasn't quit yet.
 
#5 ·
OK so the 6-8 years is a conservative lifetime estimate by Varta :)

My alarm horn is now 14 years old and still good.

I am lucky to have a friend who owns a vehicle breakers and so I will look for a used horn and then set about replacing the batteries. Then I will have a spare ready to go.
 
#8 ·
I received an email back and Bosch is playing the old "these are VAG parts so you'll have to ask them" game. So I looked up a Bosch cabin air filter for the Mk2 and asked them to translate the date code to ensure I don't buy and old one.

From what I can determine, Bosch seems to be consistent with the 3-digit date code, but how they display it changes as you can see on the cabin air filter and a fuel filter shown below. Bosch seems to shift these characters depending if it's an air filter, fuel filter, wiper blades, etc. Unfortunately this still doesn't answer the 40910 code on the alarm.

As shown on the cabin air filter markings, the number 987 matches the date code for July 2009, however 432 and 597 don't appear on the matrix. One of these could be the production location ID as noted in the circled code on the alarm siren (658) and on the fuel filter shown below (957).
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On another website they seem to agree that the first three digits are date codes as shown on this Bosch fuel filter where the number 863 refers to a production date of March 1998.
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@ Mike 123 - Alarms/sirens are plug and play, no programming required.