My car use to do strange things with the the cd player and radio on a intermitten bases and it always seem to happen on hot days when the car has been
setting in the sun for a while, Lately I have not heard the wife complain about the cd player but I do know if the car gets hot in side the screen will blank
out and the vol and ch controls will stop working for awhile.
Thanks for the info. That may be what's happening to me. Now that I think about it, the worst days I had were during a recent tennis tournament when I had my car out in 95 degree weather for most of the day. I will keep monitoring it and see if the pattern holds true.
Exact same thing has happened to my radio twice now. When it sits in the sun on a real hot day the screen will be blank and on-off/volume controls don't work.
Once the car cools off the radio is fine.
I am seeing a pattern. Mine seems to have problem on hot days, but the problems only occur after I have been driving some. They don't seem to occur when the car first starts up. Of course, when it locks up, the screen freezes and the buttons/knobs don't work. Also, as I mentioned above, it ejects all of my CDs as well. I wonder if this was something that happens on older ES350s or all. Definitely more ammo for my local dealership.