Is it better to fix a broken car infotainment screen or replace it?
Dealer repairs for broken infotainment screens are often costly, uncertain, and require shipping the unit out with no guarantee of success. This leaves drivers stuck choosing between hard-to-find exact matching replacements from the same car model and year or switching to a completely different audio system.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Buying a replacement unit from eBay or a junkyard
- 2Installing an aftermarket Android or CarPlay screen
- 3Using digital to cassette converters
- 4Replacing with a unit from a junkyard
- 5Installing an aftermarket head unit or using an adapter
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Dealer says they can't repair it, they have to ship it out, and there's no guarantee the repair would work, plus it's costly.”source ↗
“The only problem I have with it is that the CD player skips a lot and ruins my CDs.”source ↗
“I've tried those digital to cassette converters, and the player just throws it up.”source ↗
“So, is it feasible to replace a CD player? If so, would you say it's better to find one from that model and year that has less wear, or to replace it with something else?”source ↗
Where this came up
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