best value laptop repair place :-)

[onlyme]

Hiya all,

Looking for help, or being pointed in the right direction. My laptop ' jack' , the bit that the charger plugs into has come loose inside the laptop and so it won't charge properly. Its quite an old Acer lappy, so not worth fixing if it costs loads

Can anyone advise the best (cheapest!) Place to take it?

Thanks all xx

[Mick]

The dump

but seriously a friend of ours had the same problem and there is a lot of work involved to get at the jack to sort it out so it wont be cheap where ever you go.
if i remember there is about 40 screws to take out to get to it

[lancsdave]

We had ours done a couple of years ago, was about £80 to repair. Its a common problem on Acer's

[accyman]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

We had ours done a couple of years ago, was about £80 to repair. Its a common problem on Acer's

its a common fault on all laptops because people let the charger hang off the table or yank it when walking away with it plugged in lol

toshibas are worst because the support goes brittle and snaps so its either buy a whole new base cover or glue the port into place

acers on a whole have a good sturdy setup but leaving the charger hanging pulling on the port or yanking it around when plugged in will dammage even the most robust.

onlyme i sent you a pm if you send me the model number from underneath ill get you a rough idea on how much you should be paying because all teh shops around here go to the exact same places i do for my parts its the fitting they sting you on and like to exagerate how hard it is to get at the part when infact its very easy

[onlyme]

Oh Fab, thanks for all your help.

I only need it to last a little while longer, was made redundant so going back to united in Sept, and get a new one for then, was planning on giving this one to the young 'un lol

Thanks again :-)