I’ve seen a few faded/dead Golf 5 LCDs in dashboards… mine seems to be intermittently bad… as a Christmas Eve project I thought I’d research how easy it would be to replace the LCD display and came across this German tutorial… turn on English captions if your German is as bad as mine…

A 2022 COVID lockdown project.

Display exchange & Repair VW Golf 5 Highline / Passat / Tiguan / Touran / Caddy & Seat Toledo - YouTube