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 Maidstone visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Book a Maidstone slot and we typically arrive via the M20 at junctions 5–7. Parking outside your house or office in ME14, ME15 and ME16 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.
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 Maidstone, 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 Maidstone visit.
