Radio not working after battery disconnect

[Rob]

I disconnected my battery this weekend to clean my MAF and when I reconnected, the radio now doesn't work. It's a 6L8T-18C815-FD 6 disk changer from a 2007 Ford Escape Limited.

The radio turns on normally but I get no sound from AM/FM or Ford Sirius unit, and my CD player says "Disk Error" (or something like that). I went to eject a disk and I get disk moving sounds but no disk. I had no problem going through the radio menu to reset the clock. It's the strangest thing since everything else in the car seems fine.

Any ideas?

[marauderthis]

When I disconnected my battery last year I had a similar issue with the power steering sytem. Disconnect the battery again and let it sit for at least 10 minutes and then reconnect. Damn Gremlins.

[Rob]

That's what I was thinking but figured I'd ask anyway. I didn't have the opportunity to do it at work. I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks.

[Pat]

Sounds like the radio pre-sets have been wiped. Re-set all your radio channels.

[Rob]

I'm not sure how radio presets would cause my CD player to malfunction and no sound to come out of any sound generating source, but anyway...

A battery disconnect and reconnect flushed this guy out:

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab103/SpecterRob/AMCGremlin.jpg (http://s854.photobucket.com/user/SpecterRob/media/AMCGremlin.jpg.html)

Oops, I mean:

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab103/SpecterRob/GremlinSpike.jpg (http://s854.photobucket.com/user/SpecterRob/media/GremlinSpike.jpg.html)

[Mebot]

Glad you got it fixed but there really is no reason to disconnect your battery just to clean your MAF