ritpg wrote:
> Left my lights on my '05 Element today and when I got out of work, of
> course, the battery was dead. The lights were not on that long. I was
> surprised the battery died that quickly. This happened one time
> before. We were tailgating for a couple of hours with the radio on and
> the back hatch open. Dead battery that time too. Today the battery
> died to the extent that I got the enter code alert on the radio after
> jump starting the car. I entered the code easily enough but now I get
> no sound. The radio display indicates that the radio is operating: I
> can switch from AM to FM to XM, etc. Turning the volume knob gives me
> the usual display indication that the volume is increasing but I get no
> sound at all. Does anyone know what the problem is and how I would fix
> it?
>
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Now that your battery is OK you need to disconnect it for 20 seconds and
then hook it up again. Some things need to reset, and a complete
disconnect is the only way. The Odyssey is WAY worse for this because of
all the interior lights and sliding doors.

'Curly'