center console gets very hot.

[00_slow_5spd_ls]

for some odd reason, my center console gets extremely hot. when you put a bottle of water in the cup holder, it makes it very warm. if you put your hand in the cup holder it is extremely hot. the sides of the console are also very hot. any ideas?

 

[falcon]

Maybe your transmission is overheating?

 

[97stscaddy]

Have you lost any heat shields recently?

 

[HyeLifeLS]

Some manual transmissions tend to overheat when driven aggressively.

 

[SoonerLS]

In both my previous ('04) and current ('06) LSes, lower parts of the transmission tunnel pretty much stayed warm, probably because of the proximity of the exhaust system. In neither of them, however, did the drinks in the center console get hot (other than when they got left in the car on a warm day). As a matter of fact, a friend said that stuff in his center console (on an '03, IIRC) used to stay quite cool in the Arizona summer thanks to the fact that the rear cooling vents run beside it.

You might check the air coming out of the rear vents, and see if it's warm; if not, I'd start looking at the heat shielding in the transmission tunnel...