Sony Vaio Laptop Repair in the UK?

[Martinrub]

Can anyone recommend a competent, trustworthy place in the UK to send my 10-year-old Sony Vaio laptop to for repair?

There is a fault on the motherboard, and, so far, I have approached 4 places without success.

Thanks.

[BoodjerPisdjer]

I’m happy your problem is solved but I guess there can be other users who need some tips. So I decided to share my experience. Long story short, I got my hot coffee spilled on the keyboard on my laptop. This was my only laptop and I was using it for work. I had one important deadline it two days and was just astonished. I run to the laptop repair near me and told about my problem. The story has happy ending: they did it as quick as possible and I wasn’t late for that deadline. Hope it was helpful for you, guys

[brijones36]

I suspect that you have sugar in your coffee??

I spilled tea (no sugar) over my Vaio around 8 mths after getting it whilst in use.  I turned the lapton onto its side in order to drain the liquid, removed the power lead and battery, then the memory and DVD drive and left it to drain/dry out for the rest of the day.

Turned it on the following day and everything worked fine (and still does 13 years later) apart from a sticky 'K' key.  A short time later, the key was properly working again.

I was lucky.  My tea didn't have sugar in it and my laptop survived.  Spilling a sugared drink - be it tea/coffee or coke/lemonade etc then it is usually curtains (the sugared drinks are more conductive I suspect).

Fwiw, my opinion of Sony UK support isn't all that high.  The laptop was supplied with a group of dead pixels - black (5 iirc) in the lower right hand corner.  It went to Sony twice and both times came back with "There's noting wrong, that is acceptible".

Art

[houaria]

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[houaria]

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