Combination meter trouble

Just to head off the question of whether or not I've searched for other combination meter threads, I know that there are a lot, but I have a couple of specific questions that aren't answered in any of them.

My car, a 2004 Prius with a little over 250k miles on it, has been having issues with the combination meter for the last few years, but it's really come to a head over perhaps the last half year. I just spent about 45 minutes getting it to work this morning, which is a new personal record. This is untenable.

I am not adept at car mechanics nor soldering and do not want to handle this myself, especially after the several hour long adventure of replacing my headlight bulbs. I've also recently read that pre-refresh 2nd gens have odometers that can't display over 299,999 miles, which I'll hit within the next 2 1/2 years.

Where can I get a post-refresh combination meter and where can I find someone who can install it and make it fully functional? I'm in the 716 area code (the western half of Western New York) and will happily drive anywhere within a two hour radius to a place that can fix this in a single day. Barring that, anyone who can at least replace the capacitor with a stronger one, to punt the odometer issue down the road a couple of years.

The cold isn't going to get any better until April, so the sooner that I handle this, the less frustrated that I'll be.

 

Thanks for that. My mechanic might be able to do that. He's told me that while he doesn't do soldering, at least as far putting on a new capacitor, he'd switch out the combination meter for another one. He's never done anything like that before, but he's been a mechanic for about forty years and has done pretty good so far with my Prius and my father's Prius, including swapping out hybrid battery cells on the latter, so I'm sure that he can figure it out.