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 Horsham visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Horsham sits well inside our mobile patch — we run in via the A24 and cover every RH12 and RH13 address. The 500 is everywhere in West Sussex, 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 Horsham, 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 Horsham visit.
