I don't have an answer for your first question, but the control panel itself may be hot because of all the light bulbs in there. Many of us have modified our cars to have those light go on and off with the headlights (they don't do that stock), and have even installed a resistor to dim them a bit (keeps them cooler). -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Smith [mailto:aos+yahoo@xxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:17 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] My climate control panel is getting hot... <SNIP> pretty warm. When I got home, I found that the entire climate control panel was very warm. Is this normal climate control behavior when the AC compressor is off? If not, anyone got any ideas what might be wrong? <SNIP>