Radio/cd not working then a flat battery.....

burgerman · 06-08-2008, 06:18 PM

Hi all,

In the UK and have a 2007 1.6GS. Last week the radio/cd player stopped working after changing a cd. Told my Kia dealer who suggested disconnecting and re-connecting the battery! Very helpful - not, especially if dealer's are aware of problems with the radio/cd player. Suffice to say I didn't take advice.

A few days later the car would not start - a flat battery no less. A friend jump started it and it fired up straight away and the radio/cd player started working again! I've read through most threads relating to problems with the radio/cd player/starting/flat batteries and now wonder if anyone else has suffered from this particular problem, as I suspect that the non-working radio/cd may well have been the reason why the battery became flat, judging from previous threads.

Does anyone know if Kia have actually issued a recall or fix for this problem and if so, is my Kia dealer going to be able/willing to sort this problem under warranty?

Hope reporting this helps other owner's too.

Cheers.

tim_p · 06-09-2008, 02:52 AM

Pretty sure the duff radio aspect is a known about problem - mine was changed in late 2007, although I didn't suffer the flat battery symptom. If you do get the radio changed make sure you remove any CD(s) that might be in it; I didn't and the wife did her nut!

Take it to the dealers, tell him the radio is dead and explain about the battery. Might be worth printing off a few postings from here. Don't take no for an answer.

burgerman · 06-09-2008, 02:18 PM

Thanks Tim.

The car had it's first service today and all of the problems were mentioned. Basically the dealer said that Kia has sent instructions out that a 're-set' is carried out on suspect radios first - this radio now being one, and this was carried out today. The garage also said they doubted the radio was the cause of the dead battery - time will tell, now that the re-set has been carried out.

If things go wrong again then the car will be back to the dealer of course.

I'll up-date here as and when. Thanks again.