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.
ProgressiveEvery week another 500 in West Sussex loses its display: odometer gone, fuel bars gone, warnings gone. The cluster underneath is healthy. We bring the screen to Haywards Heath and fit it where the car stands.
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.
ProgressiveSpeed and revs still read — they're driven by the working side of the cluster. Fuel level, range, clock, temperature and mileage all lived on the screen you can no longer see.
Why it mattersNeedles 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 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 clueFrom Crawley to Haywards Heath is a short hop for us, and West Sussex as a whole is core territory — RH16 and RH17 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.
It's a screen swap, not surgery. The failed LCD comes off the original board, the new one goes on, and the cluster goes straight back into the dash. Immobiliser pairing, coding, stored mileage: all untouched, because the only component that changed is the one that displays them.
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 Haywards Heath, and the quote you get by reg before we travel is the figure you pay.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Haywards Heath visit.
Send the reg, say roughly where in Haywards Heath 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.