I've heard a lot of crazy things about these radios, like coming on by itself even when the key is out of the ignition. I certainly couldn't put up with a radio that drains the battery, potentially leaving me stranded with a dead battery. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an appealing alternative to the stock radio, that I've seen. It's a bummer. I can't deal with no radio/music in the car, so this would be a real problem for me. My radio doesn't do any of these strange things (at least that I've seen so far), so I'm crossing my fingers, and knocking on wood. I hope it doesn't start doing even crazier stuff to you Coach, good luck.
It makes me wish it was one of the more common problems, at least I'd know how to proceed - or not depending.... Thanks!
Have you tried unhooking a battery cable for a few minutes then reconnecting it? probably won't help but at least it's easy to do. Also check battery voltage, low voltage can cause a lot of weird symptoms.
First thing I did was disconnect the battery. No joy. Battery is a year old showing the correct voltage and I replaced both cables less than 6 months ago. It's getting great power/connection.
I got really bad (the bad kind - hair on the back of your neck and severe bumps everywhere) goosebumps from post #6 ... which only lends credence to post #2.
You think YOU had goosebumps?!


Wait till you read the update below!
I opted for an alternative way of calming the nerves but I like the way you think! :wink
UPDATE:
Still doing the same thing but it has added an element that's just plain freaky!
When it was doing the cycling through bands thing, there is a pause on each band for maybe 1-2 seconds - long enough that you could see that the station displayed was the lowest one offered for both am and fm: am shows 530 and fm shows 87.? you get the gist.
NOW, instead of displaying the stations it displays some unintelligible characters... almost hieroglyphic-like! It doesn't do it every time it happens. I sat in the car with my camera for half an hour repeatedly trying to get it to display the weird characters so I could post a pic as proof that I'm not making this up or more importantly, that I'm not losing my mind but no luck.
This is weird, just weird. Maybe the most unnerving thing is the fact that I have been able to find absolutely NOTHING in the searches I've done Internet-wide that remotely relates to this anomaly.
(Insert theme to Twilight Zone here) :laugh
I haven't started making a mountain out of my mashed potatoes yet but....