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How to preserve the anti-reflective coating on the LCD screen

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I've read that the anti-reflective coating on the 2009 and older cars is easily damaged. When I bought my car with only 16K miles on it, the screen coating was coming off in spots.

I just had the COMAND unit replaced because of a bad hard drive. They replaced everything including the screen. I assume that it also has the fragile coating. Can anyone tell me what damages the coating and how to prevent it from happening again?

Thanks
 
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Hi Mike
Do a search if you haven't. Many threads on 3rd party screens.

I will see if I can locate you a few
 
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Yes, I know about the screen protectors. I tried one by NuShield on the old screen. I could never get it on without air bubbles.

What I'm asking is how can I avoid damage to the Original Equipment screen. What damages the coating: water, glass cleaner, etc.
 
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experiences with with NuShield, Screen Patronus, or other screen films?

Anyone else have personal experience with NuShield, Screen Patronus, or other screen films?

Thanks!

Bart
 
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COMAND display not scratched, progressively fogged



Pete — not scratches, but the creeping fog. When the display is on, I can only see about the left half the screen, and I’m not sure how a clear NuShield screen cover is going to fix that. I know the NuShield kit comes with a template, so I may use that to make a clear screen cover from one of my unused iPad covers.

If that doesn’t work, I’ll try to gently microfiber the fogged screen, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll try to peel the fogged cover off, pulling on one of the corners I got under my fingernail. If THAT doesn’t work, I’ll cut out a picture of Gottlieb Daimler and mount it in there.

Bart

PS: This link Sneaky Pete posted has good info & pix, and looks (I THINK — shot is a bit out of focus) a lot more like what I have going on with my screen. I’ll try to take a shot today and post it.

Quote from Pete’s post:

I did it this way https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...nd-screen.html
 
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Well, maybe it isn’t that bad...

Please check the images below (Double click for much larger)

First, I very gently wiped the screen horizontally with a fresh, never used microfiber cloth, and that seemed to help a little. The two close-ups of the screen (power off) don’t show the fogging (lower and right edge, tapering off to the left/middle) as well as the nekkid eye (though it DOES show quite vividly what 14 years of 5 previous owners ham-fisting CDs into the slot does to the plastic fascia), but it does show the fog (the out-of-focus pink reflection to the left on the screen is my arm).

Then I turned the power on to FM. If you know it’s there — and I DO — you can still see the slight fog, but everything on the screen is sharp, with no haloing or fuzziness. I believe it’s perfectly saleable in this condition, and perhaps the NuShield/iPad screen cover solution will make the fog unnoticeable.

Thanks again to Sneaky Pete for the link!

Love to all,

Relieved Bart
 

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