Soft Button EATC

[sperold]

Up until this year, my soft button EATC on my 90 looked A-OK. With a few days at -30 degrees, some of my buttons simply split open and fell apart. The monster button that gives you the outside temperature lets out a lot of white light on my otherwise green display.
I am not fussy enough to worry about the lettering on the button face, so I am thinking there should be a suitable fix out there somewhere.
Has anyone re-covered the soft buttons, and if you did, what did you use?

 

[SHOVNST]

I hate to say it but redoing the soft buttons is almost not worth the thought. For what you can get a hard button version for it's money VERY well spent. My '92 originally had the soft button and many of them cracked. I said I was fine with them until installing a hard button version. The difference was night and day. I cursed myself for not doing it sooner.

If you want to spring for the hard button version I have one for sale that is VERY clean, and tested.....

http://www.shoforum.com/showthread.php?t=116462

 

[sperold]

Changing the unit is always an option, but for now, I am looking for an "in-dash" fix to get me through this awful season.

I may resort to just taping the cracks up (to avoid the white light coming through), but I was hoping someone had a solution that at least kept the green colour showing. Maybe like a green tinted cellophane tape.

 

[SHOVNST]

I don't have a lot of hands-on experience with window tint and its properties. However that is the first thought into my brain. Whether it will stick to what is there I don't know. I'm not too confident any kind of clear-ish type tape would stick.

 

[rubydist]

not likely that any kind of tape will stick, because those buttons have lots of oil from fingers accumulated over the years...

 

[SHOVNST]

That is a good point. I was thinking more so of the button's surface texture but oil of any amount isn't good for stickin'

 

[EL SHO]

I have a soft button EATC in stock just in case the hard button on my SHO quits someday and the buttons are slightly cracked. I've been thinking of a possible fix, but haven't tried it yet. I thought of, somehow, fill the buttons with clear silicone... how? I don't.
Either taking the actual buttons apart to fill them or injecting the empty space inside the buttons with silicone and put them back together.

I might try it some day.

 

[rubydist]

I think if I had a "good" soft button eatc, that I would steal my wife's clear nail polish and carefully paint the button fronts with clear polish.