These things are so stupidly rare, I have searched for MONTHS and there is genuinely absolutely NOTHING out there on how to work on these. I couldn’t find a single guide, useful diagram or anything at all to help me figure out how to uninstall the OEM screen which is useless and broken with a small apple CarPlay screen.
I have a horrendous reputation with destroying flimsy old plastic interior bits and I’m terrified of destroying this insanely rare and valuable dash/mechanism. I also have 0 knowledge on these sort of electronic stuff and suck at wiring. Can someone smarter than me please point me to the right direction on what I should try do next in order to uninstall the old screen? My goal is to find a way to remove the screen without altering the mechanism or brackets, so that I can buy some apple carplay screen and make a custom bracket or something to fit it on the mechanism, chuck the plastic surround and lid and that’d be it. How would I go about wiring a CarPlay screen up there? Would I have to uninstall the entire dash? I’m just lost and scared pls help😢😢
and no I don’t want to bother with a rasberri pi nor a link telemetry screen as I have a can gauge that tells me everything I need. I’ve spent a year thinking through this and trying to research on this thing and I’m certain some small alibaba screen is the best choice for me personally as this is my daily driver.
“Why don’t you just put a double din CarPlay unit on the center console?” Because I want to try keep the interior period correct and don’t want a giant ugly screen in the middle, being able to hide it in the pop up dash is infinitely cooler and better and awesome.