Quote Originally Posted by nos4blood70 View Post
Hold the tape eject button for a couple seconds and the "clean player" message will go away.
I normally do this anyway--the tape icon flashes. It's a way to force the system to recognize that it's an electronic tape, not a normal one. This method hasn't fixed it yet, unless you mean to just keep holding it for a long while. (I haven't actively tried to use this to make it disappear, I just know that I've done this several times and the message still appears.)

Quote Originally Posted by nos4blood70 View Post
Does the radio respond to inputs normally when the screen is all messed up like that?
Everything on the radio/tape player/CD player works as expected, it's only the display that's messed up. My aux power fuse was blown, so while I had the fuseboxes open today I checked the display fuses and everything was fine. My dad knows cars and he said that the aux power fuse may somehow fix the display, but I personally doubt that it'll do anything. I'll be driving it long-distance tomorrow, so I can report back then with regard to this in particular.