Chosen Solution
After 8 months of use, with a physical damage on my part the Dell U2718Q is broken. The warranty is for 12 months, but I accepted that it might not cover physical damages. I asked for paid repair, paid replacement, and even about purchasing original device screen so that I can repair it myself - but Dell said no for all.
Now, I’ve found this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/40000838… but I’m not sure if I should go with this? Also, if I do grab this, then I cannot find a single disassembly instructions for U2718Q Dell monitor. Can someone please help me with this? Reference: https://randomly.blog/2019/05/31/know-wh….
That looks like an okay part to use. I’ve written a decent-ish teardown you can reference. Although with this being almost 3 years old now, you presumably have found another solution to this issue. Maybe someone else finds this useful though.
The issue with displays (especially high-resolution displays) is the panel costs so close to a new display (relative to when it was new) it almost never makes sense to do so for anyone, manufacturer nor user. This is probably based on an LG raw LCD based on Dell’s panel history (Samsung budget, LG for high end IPS), especially if it is IPS. If you can get the part number on the back of the LCD then you can price it out but 95% of the time a bad LCD will total these out as a “BER” situation. However, most Dell LCDs (which are more recent then the CCFL silver/black series from the mid 2000’s-~2010?) come apart from the back but you may need to unclip the bezel on some.
