Laptop Hinge Repair in Adelaide

Over the years, dust collects within the laptop, which gets pushed around and ends up mixed up with the silicone grease of the hinges.

Treads of the hinges are narrow and shallow, especially with touch screen model laptops. Mixed-up grease and dust clog them up, resulting in highly stiff hinges.

As a result, pressure when opening and closing the screen gets transferred into the hinge support. Most models come with a plastic hinge support, where the hinge nut is fused into the plastic back cover. These plastics are weak and crack easily under pressure, as seen above. Either nut pops out together with the hinge screw or completely rips off the support altogether.

If not repaired on time, this pressure gets transferred into the screen corner and breaks the screen. At that point, we also need a Laptop Screen Replacement on top of the Laptop Hinge Repair in Adelaide, resulting in doubled cost.

That said we need to repair the hinges ASAP before they break the screen.

Depending on if single or both hinge supports are damaged, the cost of laptop hinge repair could be between 300$-600$.

The cost of the repair depends on the damage, as well as if the screen is still intact and functioning fine. Closing the screen with broken hinges causes the laptop assembly to get extra tension and fall apart or separate. If we can repair the hinges before further damage is done, we can spare a replacement screen or wires around it.

Due to the custom metalwork involved, we need to apply different techniques for each repair case. You can see what we deal with on each case in our Laptop Hinge Repair cases section.

Although there is a high complexity behind each step, we want to make sure we provide superior quality repair and craftsmanship without damaging or altering much of the design of the laptop itself.

The cost of the repair depends on the damage on the hinge support. Which is not immediately obvious from outside. Hence we need to run a diagnostic by taking the device apart. 

Most often though, once we take it apart cracked plastics just fells off like a bag of chips. And we can see the second hinge just barely holding.

We see broken hinges on laptops that are less than one year old. A recent case was a Lenovo laptop that was still under warranty. Lenovo Support stated it was a user error and quoted 1200$ for a top case assembly replacement. It was purchased for 1800$

All brands and models are the same. Only solution is to get it riveted, which makes a metal-to-metal connection. So the hinge support is sandwiched between the back case and the hinge. If the back cover or the laptop is replaced, it is a matter of time before plastics crack.

Call it a design mistake if you like, but for us, it is a planned obsolescence in the engineering design, forcing people to purchase more laptops and generate more eWaste.

We understand that it is stressful to be without the Laptop while it is in for Repair. But Laptop Repairs are not straightforward, as they all are designed with fused parts. On top of that, Apple does its best to prevent any kind of Repairs on their Laptop. This creates a challenge in diagnosing symptoms, locating faults, sourcing documentation and schematics even finding chips.

Most of the Laptop Repairs in our Adelaide Workshop take under a week. 

If new need to order parts from interstate suppliers, add another week. Or a month if we need parts from our international suppliers.

Over the years we tried all feasible options in repairing Laptop Hinges. We glued them, replaced the hinges, replaced the back cover. As a result they would always break again. 

Therefore, we have found the ideal solution of repairing the hinges. By running a rivet through the assembly. Which creates a metal to metal connection between the hinges and back cover, rather than relying on a nuts fused in plastic.