No mileage. No fuel. Nothing.
Needles sweep, warning lamps light, and the middle of the dial is black. Total LCD failure — and still nothing wrong with the cluster behind it.
Most commonThe Dartford visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Dartford sits well inside our mobile patch — we run in via the M25 at the Dartford Crossing and cover every DA1 and DA2 address. The 500 is everywhere in Kent, 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.
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 Dartford.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Dartford visit.
