I was driving in fairly sunny weather today and noticed that on my headunit screen, there's dust. I tried to wipe it off only to realize that the dust is actually *inside*, on the display, under the plastic. I am not sure how that happened really.

Anyone else encounter this in their TSX? This is a 2006 non-navi by the way. I imagine the warranty would cover it?

 

yea i have this issue too but i just pretend i dont see it cuz then i really be pissed

 

Did you try taking it to the dealer?

 

I have the same problem on my 04 TSX. It's a little annoying, but I just ignore it. Same thing happened to one of my cell phones. I guess the display is not sealed up so tight!

 

I've got what appear to water spots in mine. I can only see it when the sun hits at just the right angle. Most likely this stuff got in there when the item was manufactured. It's not at all uncommon nor is it limited to the TSX or even Honda/Acura.

 

maybe its the same as how the dust goes into our cellphone screen. (without knowing HOW) . . @@

 

But have any of you tried to get it repaired/replaced at the dealership? I don't think this is supposed to happen really. Mine is a 2006, so if in two years I see visible dust, I imagine in another couple of years it will be even worse. Right after the warranty expires too...

 

When I had to dis-assemble my headunit for my custom Avic navi, it was intricate, but you can access that panel after you remove the entire assembly. Its pretty tricky but CJAMS did it for me.

 

^ thanks, but I'll probably just live with the dust

 

Update: Had the dealer check it out. They took the front panel off (like in the pics above), cleaned it out and put it back together. Looks good now, hopefully won't happen again.

 

Word. That's a whole lot crap to take apart and plastic tabs to snap.

 

I've got the same exact problem with my 04 TSX. Did the dealer charge you for the cleaning?

 

Well, you can add me to the list of people with this problem. I’ve had my ’04 since it was new (4.5 years) and my audio display was dust-free until last week. Now there’s a ton of dust in there.
From regular reading of Acurazine posts over the years, I’ve been aware that some TSX owners have had to deal with the annoyance of seeing dust between the LCD audio display and the plastic shield or screen. I’ve been thankful that I wasn’t among them, because cosmetic defects like that really bug me.
Here are three other A’zine threads about this problem; there may be others.
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...ght=dust+radio
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...ght=dust+radio
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...ght=dust+radio
In the first of those threads, two of the posters say they didn’t have the problem until their cars spent time at a body shop. Same goes for me. My car spent last week at the dealer’s body shop so two problems could be taken care of: a line of rust in a seam or valley on the underside of the hood and front-bumper damage that occurred when a snow-laden piece of a tree (calling it a big branch doesn’t do justice to its size) fell on my car this winter. (The rust problem materialized while the car was under warranty. Because it was going to be fixed under warranty, I was required to let the dealer’s body shop do the job. For the sake of simplicity, I decided to let the dealer’s shop also do the bumper work.)
From what I’ve been able to tell, the car – minus the hood and bumper – spent considerable time sitting outside during the week it was at the shop, and a couple of those days were very windy, meaning there had to have been a lot of dust blowing around. (I keep my car’s engine bay very clean, and as I feared, the engine bay was absolutely filthy with dust when I got the car back. It took me more than an hour yesterday to get it back into the condition it had been in.)
As I was driving the car home, I noticed that the audio screen looked dusty, and I quickly discovered that the dust wasn’t on the outer surface. Somehow, while the car was in the shop, A LOT of dust got into the audio unit. What route it took, I can’t imagine. Could it have had something to do with the hood-less and bumper-less car being outside on dusty days? Or maybe it’s just that body shops tend to be very dusty environments.
On my car, the lower left corner of the plastic shield (or screen) over the audio display has been lifting very slightly for more than a year – just enough that it’s no longer flush with the surrounding black plastic. (If I push on that corner, it goes back to being flush, but only momentarily.) When I first noticed this, I toyed with the idea of trying to lift it further – enough to get a dab of some sort of adhesive or a tiny piece of double-sided tape behind it – but I decided that would be too risky. I feared that prying it up would leave the shield distorted and that it would never look right again.
Now that all the dust is in there, I find myself toying with the idea of trying to completely remove that shield – big gamble – so that the dust can be removed. But given what’s said in post #8 and post #10 here, going to the dealership’s service manager, telling him (and showing him) what’s happened, and seeing about having the dash disassembly done would seem the wiser course of action. Best-case scenario: they’d do it as a warranty job (related to the warranty work on the underside of the hood). Next-best-case scenario: they’d cut me a break on the labor charge.
It’s always ultra-aggravating to take your car to a shop to have one problem addressed only to wind up with a new and different problem.

 

Lol.. this is what in my primary lCD display.... I need to clean it!!!!

 

Yeah I have an 04 TSX and I have dust on the inside also.

 

Same problem here too. I live with it...