03 egt radio back lit wonky

I worked on an XG with a similar problem with the climate control. It turned out the problem was with noise from poor contact in the illumination rheostat.

If your radio electronically reads the rheostat electronically and reacts, then the problem could be in the rheostat or the radio. If, on the other hand, the rheostat simply regulates on its own the voltage to the radio illumination, then the problem is almost certainly within the radio. If I couldn't duplicate the condition and was forced to guess, I'd replace the radio first.

The window tape is a well known issue. There's a technical service bulletin listing part numbers, etc. I've not had any problem getting tapes for windows, but haven't actually installed or replaced any. We have a body shop, so they do that sort of stuff. My personal opinion is that the service rep fed you a load of crap on this one. Try to get yourself an account on