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 Twickenham visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
Getting to Twickenham is straightforward — the A316, then to your door anywhere in TW1 and TW2. 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'.
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 Twickenham, 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 Twickenham visit.
