Washed out in daylight.
Contrast drains until the odometer is a rumour. Bright days make it invisible, night makes it barely better. This is the bond between ribbon and glass letting go — it only ever gets worse.
Early stageThe Farnborough visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
From Aldershot to Farnborough is a short hop for us, and Hampshire as a whole is core territory — GU14 all covered at your home or workplace. What brings us over most often isn't keys or coding: it's the 500's dash screen quietly giving up.
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 Farnborough, 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 Farnborough slot.
