I’m as happy as a pig in #*#*

[Hunter]

Half my touchscreen was non responsive , packed up…
So I bought a new screen digitiser from eBay and it only bloody works
Video looked very technical removing head unit from dash and pretty much stripping it down to its bones…
A very pleasant surprise just how easy it was..

 

[JumpShip]

Well done for having the kahuna's to give it a go

 

[TeeCeeJay]

Yep. I did mine the other week. Took an hour total and £20!
Well worth the effort.

 

[Hunter]

About an hour and a half for me and £38…. I’m not the most technical so would recommend to others rather than spend hundreds..
I was buying an alpine head unit for £1200…glad I didn’t

 

[gilesjuk]

I did mine last week and only fitted it today. I'd bought a faulty head unit on ebay and had swapped the front panel from that onto my head unit but I then lost WIFI (not that I can get the car-net thing to register). So I repaired the existing screen and fitted it today.

One tip I'd pass on is to turn any screw going into plastic anti-clockwise until it clicks, then screw in. This is aligning the existing hole thread with the screw thread, otherwise it cuts a new one and can cause the plastic mounts to split.

 

[QuietlyFirrion]

Half my touchscreen was non responsive , packed up…
So I bought a new screen digitiser from eBay and it only bloody works
Video looked very technical removing head unit from dash and pretty much stripping it down to its bones…
A very pleasant surprise just how easy it was..

How did you find removing the old digitiser? It's on my list of things to fix, but a little concerned that I'll ruin the whole screen trying to remove the faulty digitiser.

 

[Hunter]

Didn’t remove the old one .. new one perimeter sticks over the top of existing one

 

[gilesjuk]

How did you find removing the old digitiser? It's on my list of things to fix, but a little concerned that I'll ruin the whole screen trying to remove the faulty digitiser.

You don't and can't remove the old one as it's not a separate screen and digitiser, they're sandwiched together at the point of manufacture. You stick the new one on and reassemble.

 

[TeeCeeJay]

@QuietlyFirrion
it's all explained / detailed in this thread.
As others have said, no removal required.

OEM Headunit Problems [Merge]

Today the discover media system rebooted 3 or 4 times within about 20 mins of driving. At the time the nav was displaying and sd card music playing. Thought it might have been a corrupt music file but I couldn't repeat the problem so ruled that out and It hasn't done it again?? Anyone...

www.t6forum.com

 

[Led Sandwich]

I did mime a few weeks ago and as other have said it was very straight forward. took an hour tops including removal and install. just be methodical and dont force anything and you cant really go wrong.

 

[gilesjuk]

One thing I noticed when I did mine was the amount of dirt on the screen behind the plastic front. I do wonder if this is why my screen didn't work around the edges. I ended up refitting the spare front panel as the new repaired screen isn't as visible in the sun. I imagine the screen would benefit from being treated with an oleophobic coating to stop fingerprints showing up.