Damaged touchscreen: Pre-facelift 2006 Legacy

[Teufel]

Hi All

Not so recently, I became slightly frustrated with the responsiveness of the factory touchscreen unit whilst skipping through mp3s and sort of pressed the screen a bit too hard and a bit too repetitively *cough*. Since then I now have a white stripe obscuring ~33% of the screen - the rest of it displays fine. It is still responsive to touch in the affected area. I've lived with it for a few months but it's become really annoying - especially as every first-time rider is like "What happened there?"

My questions are:

1. Is it feasible to replace?

2. If yes to the above, would I need the screen only or the entire unit?

3. What is availability on 2nd hand units?

Cheers

Teufel

p.s. Apologies if this has already been covered.

[killervq30de]

..bump.. for you.. I think people pull these out quite often so you'd think a wrecker or someone on here would have one

[Teufel]

Thanks, doesn't look like there are any at PaP or Strong. I'll continue to bide my time.

[SpeedySub]

You could try putting in a wanted to buy in the parts section.

[Teufel]

Bit of a thread necro but I did manage to come across one on TardMe several months ago. My early elation at finally having found a replacement unit turned to dismay when I found that the connectors on the back did not correspond to those of my car.

 

Basically the unit I'd bought did not have the multimedia functionality in order to drive the HDD and DVD drive in my car. So it was a few hours of painstakingly taking apart each unit and then swapping the circuitry (and accordingly the connectors) from the old unit to the donor unit. Of course the easier thing would be to swap the screens over but the way that the units are put together, this was impossible without damaging them.

 

Long story short, I've a working screen again.