Prius info screen died

Is the plastic coating coming off the MFD screen from the front does it look like it's peeling look like plastics coming off or does it look like it's in generally good condition these things do fail so I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it people have bought screens off eBay and Amazon just the screen part I think it's a Panasonic part and they've had good luck making them work and you can buy complete units off eBay for relatively cheap although now all of a sudden old Prius parts of suddenly turn to Gold when certain people touch them so beware it just fits a Prius nothing else so they're not worth anything because not many people can keep these cars running they're all stripping them and selling the few parts that they can get because well they can't keep theirs running

 

They sell the screen just by itself for around $35 on Amazon. Not sure on the reliability though. I haven't needed to replace mine yet.

 

Unless you can see a faint active image when the "dead" display is illuminated at an angle (like with a flashlight), which sometimes you can, and sometimes you can't, it is really hard to distinguish between "no backlight" and "blown up some other way". I mean, just unhooking the 12V or ground leads going to a display (analogous to a broken solder joint) will turn it off, even if there is nothing wrong with the unit's illumination. That the unit responds to button presses is a good sign, and that probably means the issue is with the display part of the unit, but still, unless it is just a swollen, burst, or otherwise obviously failed capacitor in the power section of the display, fixing it will likely be a bear. It isn't like you have circuit diagrams for whatever logic boards are inside it, and replacing those tiny fluorescent tubes on the sides of a LCD display is not a lot of fun either.

 

You might want to consider?
https://www.upfix.com/product/toyota-prius-2004-2009-mfd-navigation-radio-multifunctional-display-repair/