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 Tonbridge visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
We're in and out of Tonbridge on the A21 regularly, and the TN9, TN10 and TN11 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.
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.
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 Tonbridge.
Screen work is one lane of what the van carries — cluster repair for all makes, diagnostics and component coding ride along on every Tonbridge visit.
