I just got a new 2004 ES 330 with all the goodies. I have about 1000 miles on it now. I noticed that I get a loud cracking noise coming from somewhere in the interior. The car doesn't have to be moving to hear the noise and it doesn't seem to be coming from the audio system (Mark Levinson) because I can turn it all off and still get the noise. It is intermittent, but seems to happen when I first driver the car from after it has been sitting. So I wonder if it is a thermal thing or cause by the air conditioning causing something to change. I don't knw for sure. It happens every minute or two. The passengers can hear it too, but nobody can really pinpoint where it is coming from. As the driver, it sounds as if it is coming from the pasenger side, but this might be just a wrong impression. Does anyone else have (or have had) this too? Has anyone fixed the problem>? I am bringing the car in for its first visit to the service department in two days and I hate to have them take the whole darned car apart to find something that others have already experienced and fixed.