Screen damage/bubbling? Has this happened to you?
Hi Subaru friends! I’m not sure what to make of what’s going on with my touch screen in my 2019 Subaru forester.
I got my car detailed yesterday late afternoon. Prior to this, my car was admittedly very dusty (see before pictures of touch screen taken yesterday before detail cleaning).
When they finished, the screen looked like this (see pictures labeled “after- same day”). When I woke up today, 16 hours later, it is visibly worse (see pictures labeled “after-day 2”). Each original bubble has formed more branches.
Could it be from something the technicians who detailed my car did? The rate at which is worsened over night leads me to believe that if it was something that pre-existed I surely would have noticed it. I know my screen looks super dirty in the before pictures, but with the car on and screen lit I fully believe I would have noticed something like this beforehand.
Additional details:
when I scratched the “bubbles” with my nail in two tiny spots (I thought it was something on the screen I could scrape off), they chipped off (see pictures labeled “chipped”)This left the outline of the bubble and a flat shiny area where the bubble was.
It almost looks like the matte part of my screen is bubbling/flaking off? Is that possible?
Or, is it possible I left a removable protective film on somehow from purchase years ago?