MacBook Pro screen has a strange oily looking spot

well since you said you already repaired the screen display yourself, your warranty has been voided. Even if it wasn't under warranty to begin with, they certainly will not repair it now without a price.

Take it to an apple store or another authorized service provider for service.

if the repair was done at an apple authorized service provider - the service should have been covered under warranty.

check your service & support coverage here. This will tell you if your machine is still under warranty or not.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

Any repairs done (in warranty or not) should be covered for 1 year i think. So the best thing to do is just check with them and see what they can do. None of us here are apple employees who can tell you whether or not a repair will be covered or not or how much it will cost, etc.

Your best bet is to just call Apple and find out. If they set it up for repair, they can set it up so you can go to your closest apple store or authorized service provider for service.

Use this link below to contact apple, you can have them call YOU at your convenience or you can just call them.

http://www.apple.com/support/contact/

If the company that did the repair work was an authorized Apple service provider and the work they did was not necessitated by accidental damage to the computer, your warranty and AppleCare coverage may still be in effect. If they aren't an authorized service provider, the warranty and AppleCare are gone, and if the work they did was necessitated by damage that you did to the machine, the warranty and AppleCare may be gone even if they are an authorized provider. The link tool has provided above to check on your warranty coverage won't tell you if your warranty has been voided unless Apple has already made that detemination in an inspection of the machine. If Apple hasn't seen it yet, they may decide you've voided the warranty, overruling what the web link has told you iin the absence of concrete information.

My guess is that you are among those who imagine a hard plastic shell protects your MBP a whole lot better than it does. Take the shell off your machine's display and lay it concave-side-down on a tabletop, then press gently on the center of it with a fingertip. It's not very stiff at all, is it? Well, that's all the stiffness it adds to your display back panel, which is none too stiff itself (though much more so than the plastic wrapper is). And a padded carrying case adds no stiffness at all. So the middle of your MBP's display has essentially no protection against pressure or impacts when it's in your backpack, and if you stuff the backpack full of other junk in such a way that pressure is applied to the back of your display, you may crush the center of the LCD panel. I suspect that's exactly what has happened to cause your blotch, and if so, that won't be covered even if you still have a warranty.

Hey, just got my Macbook Pro and I've noticed the same thing as you. When my screen is on there's nothing there but when I turn it off, right in the middle of the screen I have like a white spot that looks like oil or something... I don't no how to call it.

Marc1199 wrote:

Hey, just got my Macbook Pro and I've noticed the same thing as you. When my screen is on there's nothing there but when I turn it off, right in the middle of the screen I have like a white spot that looks like oil or something... I don't no how to call it.

It's not oil. That white spot is the Apple Logo shining through from the back of the lid.

I got a similar situation, There is a T shaped spot on the screen. It is noticable only when the background is dark eg black.

If so many people are facing this problem then it means its problem with mac, I will get it to apple support.

Yash4mac: You are seeing the damage that results from excessive pressure on the back of the closed display. It is not a manufacturing defect, and is not covered by your computer's warranty or AppleCare. It is accidental damage caused by the user.

Are u sure apple wont cover this? The macbook has never got a fall or no pressure at such. This is a weird problem, I never had any such problem with my dell laptop

Can you take a picture of it and post here on the forum?