• no sound
• intermittent sound
• cd’s jammed
• draining battery
• no power
• no tuner function

Repair is a much more viable option for these units as you can’t just replace it easily.A new unit has to be put into delivery mode and then paired to the car via Vauxhall – cost of this is around £65 alone   -  another solution is to replace the display at the same time – this too works out expensive (around £80) and is complex to remove.

cost of repair for sound faults are £65.00

comes with 3m warranty

Please bring your console in, we’ll take a look and provide you with a quote. The most common issues are priced below…

XBOX 360 3 red light repair:

ALSO APPLIES TO ;

1  RED LIGHT

2  RED LIGHTS

E74 REPORTED

E73 REPORTED

Work involves re-flowing GPU and RAM chips to rectify cold solder joints -

Our infra-red re-flow station and other service equipment required for Xbox360 service/repair

The unit is stripped down to motherboard and placed onto an infra-red reflow workstation – the board is fluxed and brought up to reflow temp (210 c) this action reforms the solder underneath the CPU and should ‘reconnect’ all the pins. Unfortunately this doesn’t always work as it has become apparent that the tracks underneath the GPU are sometimes damaged - hence the machine is beyond repair.

This happens in 10 – 15% of consoles. Occasionally we get machines that fail once they have been returned and are under heavy use -  so we give a 3 month warranty on all re-flows … we will try the process again, if it fails to repair then we provide a full refund of repair costs.

Currently we charge £42 for this work – we don’t offer a ‘while you wait’ or 2 hr service like other repair companies … we like to test the machines for a full 24hrs to ensure it’s going to be reliable. Once the repair has been done – we don’t want to see it back ! =)

We now  ‘machine surface’  the cooling heatsinks as we’ve found that they start to distort in shape - causing poor heat transfer and overheating of the CPU / GPU.

XBox 360 drive repair

We keep a stock of all drives that are found in Xbox360′s currently there are a number of different drives used.

Microsoft Xbox 360 original drive

• Toshiba
• Philips Lite-on
• Benq
• Hitachi
• Samsung

On most occasions the drive can only be replaced with the make that’s originally been fitted – to make things more complicated the drives are ‘keyed’ to the machine i.e. you can’t just hop on to eBay and buy one and fit it – it won’t work! .There is a ‘Drive-key’ that has to be extracted first and then programmed into the new drive. This complicates things greatly, if for some reason the ‘drive-key’ is lost due to a fault in the drive or due to a bad ‘upgrade’ then the machine is worthless …. the key can’t be recovered from the motherboard (to date).

Cost of drive repair (for all makes) is £42

We can also mod your XBox to allow backups

XBOX 360  console  mod: read this page

XBOX 360  mod upgrade: read this page

Please contact us if you have any questions about repairs, mods or more information.

Replacing BlueRay Drive: £69  3 month warranty – upgrade to 6 months for an extra £10 –

We only use original Sony PS3 drives and replace the complete drive (not just the laser) - There are a large number of  ‘reclaimed’ and also ‘quality control failed’  lasers circulating – especially on eBay.

Full Sony ps3 Blue ray drive unit - complete mechanism

from our experience they have a very high failure rate – check out the sellers warranty – usually no more than 60 days. We have a source for good laser units , they are a little more expensive but we don’t want your Sony Playstation 3 bouncing back to us under warranty.

Firmware crashes: £45

The common symptom of a firmware crash is when there is no menu, only ‘wave’ on screen. We can format the hard drive, reinstate the file system and update the firmware to the latest version available. Your gamesaves and downloads should also be retained.

Replace hard drive: from £55 – upgrades available

There are many symptoms of this such as being unable to load games (writing game data to HDD), the machine not starting up, being unable to complete a firmware update, no picture,  constantly being told the machine has a file system problem. We can replace the HDD and update the firmware – Drives come in 40G,  60G  and 80G. Noticeably the 80G is more prone to failure.

Playstation slim units start at 120Gb up to 320GB – 250Gb drives seem to be most common to failure – cost is from £68 – this includes data salvage if possible , firmware replaced and tested.

No video output: from £55

Yellow Light Faults : read this page

Please contact us if you have any questions related to Playstation 3 repairs.

A couple of the common issues we can provide prices for are…

Wii DVD drive repair: from £35 -

• Two discs jammed inside
• Toys/cards ect jammed / inserted in by accident
• Not accepting discs
• Not edjecting discs
• Grinding noise from drive (teeth broken)

Wii DVD failed mod repair: from £30 (corrupt firmware due to failed softmod not always repairable)

• Failed Wiikey mods
• Broken damaged tracks
• Sync control not working

Regardless of the problem, if your Wii is out of warranty then bring it down for us to have a look at and we’ll provide you with a free repair quote. If you have any questions or want more information then please contact us.

• Tuner Faults
• CD Not Functioning
• No Sound
• Eject Problems
• Preset Faults
• Draining Car Battery
• Distorted Sound
• Weak Sound From Either Channel
• Bulb Failure
• Radio Memory Faults
• Control Knob Failure
• CD Skipping / Jumping

For more information and pricing please visit our figaro repair page.