Dies warm, returns cold.
Works first thing, gone by the school run, back the next morning. Thermal expansion is breaking the contact — the endgame is a screen that doesn't come back.
Tell-tale signThe Orpington visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Getting to Orpington is straightforward — the A21, then to your door anywhere in BR5 and BR6. The job itself is even more routine: on the 2007-on 500 the display fails long before the cluster does, so we changed our answer from 'replace the unit' to 'replace the glass'.
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.
A dealer can only sell the fix they stock: an entire cluster, ordered in, fitted and aligned — with the calendar doing the real damage, since the wait for parts and a slot is commonly measured in weeks. Replacing just the screen costs a fraction of that and happens the day we park outside your door in Orpington.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Orpington visit.
