My Problem

J'ai voulu nettoyer mon clavier mais j'avais mis trop de produit. Mon Macbook est tombe en panne.

My Fix

J'ai trouve le site IFIXIT sur internet. j'ai voulu regler la facture par PAYPAL mais cela m'a été refuse. c'est avec appréhension que j'ai regle par Carte Bleue. Mais tout c'est bien passe. Ancien technicien de maintenance je n'ai pas eu de mal a changer la piece. Mon ordinateur fonctionne de nouveau a merveille.

My Advice

IFIXIT est une entreprise sérieuse. j'ai pu suivre mon colis durant son transport et FEDEX m'a livre des que ma piece a été libérée par la Douane

My Problem

My 2 year old pulled some key caps off the keyboard, and then my 4 year old spit lemonade all over my macbook.

My Fix

It went fairly well. I put most of the screws in bowls or baggies labelled with the step number from the repair guide. This helped find the right screws when putting it back together.

My Advice

Separate the different sized screws. Some in the same step differ by less than a mm. Buy a good phillips screw driver; the iFixit torx and tri-wing drivers gave me no problems, but the Canadian Tire phillips drivers gave me a lot of trouble. I was worried I was going to have to drill out a few screws and find replacements.

My Problem

I was given a white MacBook from a friend of mine.

She told me that the keyboard and superdrive where suddenly not working properly anymore. (the superdrive did not eject and the keyboard was just sporadically reacting)

According to a licensed service center, she brought the laptop to before asking me for help, the repair would have cost around 600 €, which was way out of her budget.

Also she was told that the damage was due to a "cocoa-spill", which she thoroughly denied ever happened.

My Fix

At first I tried the usual, aka. run test programs and then take it apart to clean and check for optically visible damage.

The programs all told me that everything was fine, but upon unscrewing the lower case, I was greeted by the biggest cocoa-stain I've ever seen.

So I took the whole thing apart and cleaned everything.

Et voila, the superdrive worked like a charm again.

For the keyboard which was beyond repair (some milk probably had shortened the internal contacts), I ordered a replacement from ifixit.

After reassembling everything (and changing a few keys) I was done.

Time: around 6 hours, mainly due to my cleaning and fiddling

could probably be done in 2

My Advice

My advice:

- even if you live in Austria (as I do) the parts arrive very fast, but beware of import fees

- get some good tools (had to upgrade in the process of taking the thing apart because the screws were suffering)

- don't believe it when people tell you that no liquid was involved

My Problem

I have not received the products that uds they me have sent which has brought me inconvenient and many problems which I am very troublesome for my purchase

My Fix

have not received the products that uds they me have sent which has brought me inconvenient and many problems which I am very troublesome for my purchase

My Advice

have not received the products that uds they me have sent which has brought me inconvenient and many problems which I am very troublesome for my purchase

My Problem

I had two problems: spilled water in my keyboard, and my battery was old.

My Fix

First I bought a new uppercase, a new battery and tools. The package arrived in Brazil very fast.

I followed the tutorial with only one problem: I broke the battery indicator plug. Fortunately, there was a new entire cable in the new uppercase, so that was not a big deal.

My Advice

Be patient ;)

My Problem

I spilled soup on my wife's macbook and then it all went haywire.

My Fix

Ifixit was great! I purchased the top unit $149 and also the recommended tools. This way I could start and knock it out as soon as package arrived. Very straight forward direction. I used the video and the on-screen guide at the same time. took me about 3hrs.

My Advice

The little connectors on the motherboard are very fragile as indicated many times in directions. I broke the tiny one that is used for the front glowing LED. The on screen directions show using the flat end of the spudger to pry, but in the video she used the round end. I thought "Great now I need to buy and wait for the board." Once if figured out it was for the light I was actually glad. I do not like the pulsing glow in a dark room. Anyway, take your time and be gentle.

My Problem

I spilled coffee on my MacBook 2009 keyboard; after drying out, the column of characters 9,O,L,. didn't work, and lots of keys were sticky. I took it to the Apple store, and they said that they had a flat rate $750 fee to fix any liquid spill problems. To which I said: $150 @ ifixit.

My Fix

It went exactly as the guide suggested; total repair time was ~ 5 hours.

My Advice

1. Keep all screws and parts organized; I used little ziplock bags for screws and anti-static bags for electronics.

2. Although it doesn't mention this anywhere in the guide or video, you need to move the little square bumpers on the side of the HDD opposite the clamp from the old case to the new case, or it'll rattle around.

3. The video and the guide remove things in a different order. I don't think it matters, but I followed the guide.

4. Be very careful and don't strip any screws. But if you do strip one or two screws (such as the tiny philips on the battery), it's mostly no big deal.

My Problem

I open a bottle of water under pressure. When the water pushed out the keyboard was killed and no power up was possible.

My Fix

Good until i had to remove the small 2 and 3 pin connectors. One of the connectors brake. Really sensitive!!

My Advice

Take your time when you loose the connectors. They easily break.

My Problem

The keyboard had some water damage because my wife always uses it in the kitchen, she was really sad when her keyboard stopped working, so It was time for me to get into my DIY mode and fix it for her =)

My Fix

The repair was easier than expected, the manual and the video from the site were easy to follow and they were of great help. I took the mac apart and put it back in no time =)

My Advice

Keep your screws organized because THERE ARE A LOT OF SCREWS. I have some small containers (like the ones you use in the kitchen to put spices and stuff) and whenever I would take a part out (battery, speaker, fan) I would keep the screws separate from each other.

My Problem

A girlfriend of mine spilled some wine over her macbook. At first the keyboard and on / off switch still worked, later on the macbook kept shutting down after a while and at last it didn't power on at all.

By opening the case and short-circuiting the mainboard I managed to power on the macbook so I was certain the keyboard and on / off switch where dead.

My Fix

Nothing is as easy to repair as an Apple laptop. Opening up and demounting the hardware is very straightforward. The only downside is that allmost all companies use those stupid tri-wing screws so I needed to buy one of those screwdrivers.

Overall the repair went very well and was done in about half an hour.

I really want to thank the people at iFixit for providing the fast delivery service. I'm from the Netherlands (Europe) and I received the parts within two days!!!

My Advice

Only one word of advice. If you are uncertain if your own tools will do the job for completing the repair without a hassle, order them directly from iFixit. I bought the 54 Bit Driver Kit provided by iFixit and I have to say it's a great kit!