GCumbee
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- April 25, 2008
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- City, State
- Paducah, KY
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 97 XLT
Well, even being an electronics guy does not help from being stupid at times. My old '97 XLT had been sitting most of the winter. So when I tried to start it the battery was totally dead. I jumped it and it ran. I drove it for awhile, then stopped to pickup something from my storage bldg. Shut it off and it was dead again. Called my neighbor to come help me. That is where the trouble started. We were rushing to get ahead of a storm. I looked at his Toyota battery and the red/black covers were gone. +/- was hard to determine. I thought I looked at the right wires, but did not. I hooked it up backwards. Got a big arc. So I swapped the cables. Then it jumped fine, BUT...the radio was dead. Nothing. I went to a local auto store and had the battery checked. Dead cell. New battery installed. Still no radio....
I checked all fuses. Everything seems OK. I went back to the store and got the removal tool for the radio. Took it out. I got a voltmeter and found +12V on the vertical flat plug. So I figured the radio was dead. I found one just like it on Ebay. From a radio shop. They say it was checked and worked fine. I got it today. Plugged it up. Nothing. Still dead.
So what do I do now? Chance that I still got a bad radio from them? What about these theft codes. I have a factory anti-theft system. I do not get this CODE indication on the display. Nothing, no clock, nothing.....
Is there anything else I am missing? Other fuse locations? I have checked under the hood and the side panel boxes.. No bad ones. What about the plug in diodes ot relays. Any of those have anything to do with the radio?
Everything else works. Just the radio is dead....
Thanks in advance for any help with this....
George in KY
I checked all fuses. Everything seems OK. I went back to the store and got the removal tool for the radio. Took it out. I got a voltmeter and found +12V on the vertical flat plug. So I figured the radio was dead. I found one just like it on Ebay. From a radio shop. They say it was checked and worked fine. I got it today. Plugged it up. Nothing. Still dead.
So what do I do now? Chance that I still got a bad radio from them? What about these theft codes. I have a factory anti-theft system. I do not get this CODE indication on the display. Nothing, no clock, nothing.....
Is there anything else I am missing? Other fuse locations? I have checked under the hood and the side panel boxes.. No bad ones. What about the plug in diodes ot relays. Any of those have anything to do with the radio?
Everything else works. Just the radio is dead....
Thanks in advance for any help with this....
George in KY