The backlight failed on the stereo unit on our '03 Euro the other day. The unit works fine, you just can't see the screen.

Thinking it was a fuse I did some browsing and on US sites noted that, as a result of a class action, Honda has extended the warranty to 7 years and 105k MILES on the units in the US manufactured 03 and 04 Accords. While these are the V6 cars sold here, the units appear identical to those in the Euro.

Raising this with the dealer got the usual "Oh no, those are different - they are left hand drive cars". Yeah, like that is likely to be the difference!

Further browsing showed up this site, and I can find lots of individual references to failed backlights, but no thread. There seems to be a bit of knowledge of the problem, but no specific ongoing discussion.

Therefore, I am interested in those who have:
- experienced this problem
- had any luck convincing a dealer they should replace the unit
- know if you can buy the circuit board as a Honda part as opposed to the whole unit

With enough noise we may be able to get Honda to acknowledge the problem here??

Cheers