Odd characters in car CD display

You should check if the car stereo can cope with V2 tags. Perhaps it only likes V1 tags and therefore hickups when it reads the data of the V2 tags - which are stored at the beginning of a file, while V1 tags are stored at the end.

Also, the character encoding could be a problem - see this thread about encoding:

/t/2785/1
Sorry, you have to try it locally, but these the knobs to twiddle.