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 Uxbridge visit
New glass.
Nothing else changes.
From Harrow to Uxbridge is a short hop for us, and West London as a whole is core territory — UB8 and UB10 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.
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.
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 Uxbridge, and the quote you get by reg before we travel is the figure you pay.
If the fault turns out to be deeper than the glass, the same visit covers it: full cluster repair, module replacement and proper diagnostics are all on board.
