Glow but no digits.
The 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 clueThe Portsmouth visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
From Southampton to Portsmouth is a short hop for us, and Hampshire as a whole is core territory — PO1, PO2 and PO6 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.
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 Portsmouth, and the quote you get by reg before we travel is the figure you pay.
One visit can clear a list: cluster faults on any make, key programming, diagnostics — tell us everything the car's doing when you book your Portsmouth slot.
