blueduramax

Mentioned in earlier post that my LCD in speedo cluster had bad case of "pink shrimp". To fix it I ordered one of the LCD's from the China source, only to find out that were out of the item. So I ordered a used cluster off of ebay. It arrived today and one of it's LCD's was bad also. But good news, one of them was good.
So I followed the instructions in a previous MB World post and replaced mine with the good one. Works good!

Das Geld 2

Nice! Mine is actually shrinking and nearly gone

blueduramax

Since I now have two of the LCD's with the condition, I thought of trying ways to rehab them. I tapped them, rubbed fingers across them hopeing to move the particles magnetically, tried to move the two glass panels against each other, all to no avail. It would be great if we could find out why yours is getting better?

alk247

I mentioned before that mine was completely gone with onset of warmer weather. So try to warm them up and see if it may help.

blueduramax

I'll give that a try.

blueduramax

Warmed them up, tried squeezing the two layers back and forth etc. It may be my imagination but the messed up place seemed to change shape from time to time. Tapped on them, tapped them on their edges, but no cigar. Will keep experimenting.

alk247

Long, long time ago (guess like 1975) I had a watch with monochrome LCD display. I left it in the direct sun on the beach, and LCD display turned into a small puddle. After cooling down, everything went back to normal. What did you use to warm displays up?

blueduramax

Used a heat gun. Made it pretty hot. Notice this morning that one LCD is much worse than it was yesterday.

alk247

Dang, my hopes of being the savior of SL community are dashed.

Das Geld 2

Just hot *** weather its hitting 90f here and inside of car is a toaster..its shrinking by the day..little pixels are vanishing.

2 more little spots are gone, ill need to post an updated pic

mikefamig

Just curious, how are you testing the LCD? What are you connecting it to? Is your car still apart?

Mike.

blueduramax

All I have done is use heat, cold, movement, magnet etc. I have done a bit of research (youtube) as to possible electronic fixes. Does not look promising. The units from China I believe are re-furbished so there is probably a fix that they have found. My car is all back together. I have wondered a bit if screens from other cars might be modified and used.