Fainter every month.
Still readable — just less than last summer. Bond degradation is one-directional. Swapping the screen at this stage is the same job at the same price, minus the weeks of squinting.
Fix it earlyThe Stevenage visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
We're in and out of Stevenage on the A1(M) at junctions 7–8 regularly, and the SG1 and SG2 postcodes produce a steady stream of the same call: 500 driving fine, display dying. That's not coincidence — the screen's ribbon bond is the one part of this cluster with a shelf life.
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.
The alternative is a whole-cluster replacement: parts on order, a booking queue, an alignment step, and often weeks off the road in bits or limping. For a failed screen that's overkill. One mobile visit to Stevenage, one fixed price agreed up front, one hour of your day.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Stevenage visit.
