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 commonBlank or fading display on a Fiat 500 or Abarth in Gravesend? It's the LCD glass, it's a known fail, and it's an hour's kerbside work with the right screen in stock — which is exactly what we carry.
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 commonStill readable — just less than last summer. Bond degradation is one-directional. Swapping the screen at this stage is the same job at the same price, minus the weeks of squinting.
Fix it earlyThe panel lights up; nothing is written on it. The backlight outlives the glass — proof the fault is the LCD itself, not power or wiring.
Diagnostic clueEights 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.
ProgressiveBook a Gravesend slot and we typically arrive via the A2. Parking outside your house or office in DA11 and DA12 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.
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 Gravesend, and the quote you get by reg before we travel is the figure you pay.
If the fault turns out to be deeper than the glass, the same visit covers it: full cluster repair, module replacement and proper diagnostics are all on board.
Send the reg, say roughly where in Gravesend the car sleeps, and pick a slot. Most screens are in stock in the van — the repair happens first visit.
The quickest way to get a price is to call us — or WhatsApp with your reg and the symptoms. Most quotes back within minutes, 7 days a week.
Tap to call now 07550 006 999 7 days a week, 7am–9pm. We answer when we can; voicemails returned the same day.