New owner of 2006 e53. Great stuff in this thread on replacing the LCD screen. Ordered mine from Eurotech and installed last night to replace screen with gray pixels.

Everything went well, but a new wrinkle: After hooking everything back up new screen displays everything with no backlight, but I can go into settings and when I select brightness the backlight turns on and works fine/adjusts only to slowly dim back out after a few seconds.

Anyone experience this or have suggestions or could this be the dreaded inverter?