Dies warm, returns cold.
Works first thing, gone by the school run, back the next morning. Thermal expansion is breaking the contact — the endgame is a screen that doesn't come back.
Tell-tale signThe Basildon visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Book a Basildon slot and we typically arrive via the A127. Parking outside your house or office in SS13, SS14 and SS15 is all the workshop this needs: the cluster comes out through the binnacle, the screen swap happens on a bench in the van, and it's all back together the same hour.
The method never changes: cluster out, casing open, failed LCD lifted off, new screen seated and the unit rebuilt. Your mileage lives in memory on the board — the glass is just the window onto it — so the figure that lights up afterwards is the one your car earned. No coding session, no dealer visit, nothing to marry up.
A dealer can only sell the fix they stock: an entire cluster, ordered in, fitted and aligned — with the calendar doing the real damage, since the wait for parts and a slot is commonly measured in weeks. Replacing just the screen costs a fraction of that and happens the day we park outside your door in Basildon.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Basildon visit.
