# Need help with radio **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Tags:** ford, taurus\ **Created:** [September 11, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719 "2017-09-11T20:56:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaxsonsdaddy13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaxsonsdaddy13](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jaxsonsdaddy13)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/1 "2017-09-11T20:56:45Z")
My radio display says call how do I fix it ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/2 "2017-09-11T21:07:00Z")
Stock radio or aftermarket? If stock, check with your owners manual/take it to a dealership ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/3 "2017-09-11T21:28:32Z")
Is there a tiny reset button somewhere on the radio? ---
**Author:** ![jaxsonsdaddy13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaxsonsdaddy13](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jaxsonsdaddy13)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/4 "2017-09-11T21:50:35Z")
Ok I will check for the reset button ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/5 "2017-09-11T22:25:00Z")
If it is a stock radio and you have the owner’s manual, see if it helps figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/6 "2017-09-12T00:44:47Z")
Chances are you can pull the radio fuse for a few minutes, it will loose it’s memory and revert back to pre phone defaults. ---
**Author:** ![jaxsonsdaddy13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaxsonsdaddy13](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jaxsonsdaddy13)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/7 "2017-09-12T12:14:09Z")
Can’t find a fuse for it, and now I have a bigger problem to deal with on the car ---
**Author:** ![FoDaddy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/fodaddy/32/717_2.png) [@FoDaddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/FoDaddy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/8 "2017-09-12T16:45:51Z")
You might want to check to make sure the source isn’t set to Sirus/XM. When the free trial runs out, most OEM radios will just have a message to call Sirus or call a number to set up an account. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/9 "2017-09-12T21:55:12Z")
What is the bigger problem, dead battery? ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/10 "2017-09-13T20:07:11Z")
My radio problem is that every time I turn the channel to Rush Limbaugh he says something stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/11 "2017-09-13T20:17:13Z")
That’s not a problem with your radio… ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/12 "2017-09-13T22:01:24Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > My radio problem is that every time I turn the channel to Rush Limbaugh he says something stupid. So, continuing to turn the channel to Rush means you are…?? ;-] ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/13 "2017-09-13T22:05:04Z")
Listen to Ann Coulter instead… ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/14 "2017-09-14T17:15:38Z")
> [@insightful](#): > > So, continuing to turn the channel to Rush means you are…?? Yes. I have only turned the radio to RL when I have been driving in the boonies and wanted some noise to distract me and couldn’t get any other station. I’ve never heard RL himself; substitutes have always replaced him. Actually, it’s entertaining, like watching the pompous take pratfalls, except they choose to say stupid things, not slip up. Rush called the warnings about Erma a hoax, called on people not to evacuate, then evacuated himself - pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/15 "2017-09-14T17:35:54Z")
OP is here for advice. Do we really want another thread prematurely closed due to political nonsense? I agree with FoDaddy’s theory. ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/16 "2017-09-14T18:47:27Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > Rush called the warnings about Erma a hoax, called on people not to evacuate That is simply a lie…and you are truly pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/17 "2017-09-18T18:46:54Z")
> **[Rush Limbaugh evacuates studio ahead of Hurricane Irma](https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Front+Page/75efdzpsp/Rush-Limbaugh-evacuates-studio-ahead-of-Hurricane-Irma.htm)** > > NEW YORK (AP) — Rush Limbaugh, who has suggested that a “panic” caused by hurricanes benefits retailers, the media and climate change activists, abandoned his south Florida studio ahead of Hurricane Irma. “It turns out that we will not be able to do... ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/18 "2017-09-18T19:08:55Z")
Thanks for proving my point. ;-] ---
**Author:** ![jaxsonsdaddy13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jaxsonsdaddy13](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jaxsonsdaddy13)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/19 "2017-09-24T13:24:39Z")
It’s a stock radio it don’t have XM radio or anything like that the this is under the hood in the fuse box there is a cell port fuse I pull that and the radio don’t work ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719/20 "2017-09-24T13:32:12Z")
Can you post a photo of your radio and controls? Is it a touch screen? When you switch from FM to AM does it still display call? What year? If it is your Bluetooth link, just press the little handset button on your radio, that might clear it. But as noted by other posters, if the owners manual is not clear on the procedure the dealer could probably clear it in two seconds. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/need-help-with-radio/107719.md?page=2)