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MacBook Air 11 inch 2015 (A1465) Battery Replacement, Bristol, Brislington & Keynsham
| MacBook Air Battery Replacement | £104.99 |
| MacBook Air Battery Replacement | £104.99 |
We would love to be able to fix every device and would love to be able to give you your device back working as it should be. Some devices are just beyond repair or need to be taken to a Micro-Soldering Specialist. Our expertise has taken years to acquire, so we charge £20 for any device which we are not able to repair. This by no means covers our costs, as we sometimes spend in excess of an hour or two working through different options to get your device working again. In the event that you have called us out to your location, we will only charge you the call out fee plus £10. If we are unable to repair your device, we may still be able to help get your device fixed and may even be able to get your data recovered. We have teamed up with a specialist “Micro-Soldering Board Level Repair Company” here in Bristol specifically to ensure we get your device fixed in almost all cases.
We know you are busy, so we offer a service where we come to you. We will arrive in a Red DrFixit Van at your home or work or wherever you want. Our vans are fully fitted with all the necessary tools to get your device working in no time. Did I mention our call out charge starts from only £15 to come to you? I am sure you agree… that level of convenience makes perfect sense. To find out more, please visit our page If We Come To You.
We will not use cheap parts and will certainly not do a botch job either. You can rely on us. If you have any problems after the repair has been completed, just give us a call.
So this is the one we get most. No chime, no fan noise, no keyboard backlight — you press the button and the machine just sits there, and the owner will tell you nothing was ever spilled on it. Before anybody opens it up, we run the extended SMC reset, because every so often that’s the entire repair and it costs nothing to try. Still dead after that and it’s a board fault, so we go looking for where the power chain actually stops rather than guessing at a part.
A spill is a different animal, and on this model it usually announces itself the moment you plug the charger in: no green light on the MagSafe at all. Liquid works its way under the board, sits there, and keeps eating solder joints and tracks long after everything looks and feels dry. The repair is a proper clean of the 820-00165 board under the microscope, then measuring the power circuitry to find what the corrosion actually killed. Rice does nothing. Waiting makes it worse.
This is one of the thinnest machines Apple ever built, with one small fan and a very tight air path through it. A decade of dust, hair and pocket lint in the fins narrows that path further, so the fan works harder to move less air and the processor throttles itself down to stay alive. That’s the frustration that drives people to start cutting extra vents into the aluminium. A full strip-down, a proper clean and fresh thermal paste gets most of it back without drilling anything.
And then there’s the one that isn’t broken at all. The machine runs, but it’s long past the point where Apple ships it new macOS versions, and the drive was small to begin with, so it’s permanently full and crawling. The good news is that storage in these is a removable blade rather than something soldered to the board, so fitting a bigger, faster drive is a genuine option. It’s why whole fleets of these get thrown out of schools while still perfectly repairable.