Digits half-missing.
Eights read as sixes, the trip looks like code. Individual segment lines have dropped off the glass. The stored numbers are fine; the display of them isn't.
ProgressiveThe Basingstoke visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Basingstoke sits well inside our mobile patch — we run in via the M3 at junction 6 and cover every RG21, RG22 and RG24 address. The 500 is everywhere in Hampshire, which means so is this fault: the segment LCD between the dials cooking itself to death over years of dashboard heat.
We don't exchange units and we never post anything. Your cluster stays with your car: we open it, remove the dead glass, fit the replacement screen and rebuild it on the spot. Because the board — and the odometer memory on it — never changes, the car treats the cluster as what it is: the same one it left the factory with.
Compare the franchise route: a complete replacement cluster has to be ordered, the car booked in, and the new unit proxi-aligned — drivers regularly report the whole cycle running into weeks. Ours runs into an afternoon in Basingstoke, and the quote you get by reg before we travel is the figure you pay.
One visit can clear a list: cluster faults on any make, key programming, diagnostics — tell us everything the car's doing when you book your Basingstoke slot.
