Would you pay to have your vis repaired ?

[Dan1971]

As title really.

I'm sending my old power vis to my old man, who's a bit of an electrical guy. He reckons he can repair it, and probably make it more reliable.

If yours were knackered would you pay to send them to him and get him to fix them ?

If so ... How much would you pay ?

[LozMachine]

Tenner apiece? better for folk if it could be done on an exchange basis though

[Dan1971]

Originally Posted by LozMachine

Tenner apiece? better for folk if it could be done on an exchange basis though

I thought about the exchange thing. I'm sending him my power vis first for him to have a go on. If I had a balance I'd send him that too, but I don't.

We'll see how it goes.

Realistically though, he'd be repairing and posting it back the same day anyway .... He reckons 30-45 mins tops.

[Steves Cleenz]

but will he replace the motor if that is fubard? if so the motors IIRC are about £4 each, cant remeber which site it was but some one found the right motors that they need, in all fairness i think £40 for a refurb is a fair price if this includes:

screwing down both the switches
re-solder all the joints
replace motor

seems new they are £80 odd new

[LozMachine]

Tenner plus parts/materials then

[Nor]

£10 for a repaired VIS motor is a bargain, I'm sure anyone would pay that. It depends what's wrong with the VIS though. If it's simply the microswitches coming away from the body, or dry joints it's a reasonably 'simple' home fix. If it's a burnt out motor then it's not really fixable.

[Dan1971]

Well... he's repaired my old broken one. Upon opening he found that it'd already had some sort of repair, three broken lugs, and he reckons, not a very good one. He took this before....



The soldering was very poor and it appeared that the joints were not cleaned before soldering therefore the connections were intermitent. Motor was fine and there was no oil apparent inside. The terminal on the micro switch was dry jointed (not soldered). He's trying to source where we could get hold of the relays and motors.

Sadly no after picture.

So far ..... so good. It's all back together.

The issue is testing it to ensure that it works before sending it back to it's owner.

[KevG]

If that is fixed that is a very poor repair, as Mick says, I would get shot if any of my PCB were repaired like that, BTW I'm electronics technician.

Originally Posted by Dan1971

Well... he's repaired my old broken one. Upon opening he found that it'd already had some sort of repair, three broken lugs, and he reckons, not a very good one. He took this before....



The soldering was very poor and it appeared that the joints were not cleaned before soldering therefore the connections were intermitent. Motor was fine and there was no oil apparent inside. The terminal on the micro switch was dry jointed (not soldered). He's trying to source where we could get hold of the relays and motors.

Sadly no after picture.

So far ..... so good. It's all back together.

The issue is testing it to ensure that it works before sending it back to it's owner.

[Dan1971]

To clarify ... The photo is of the board BEFORE he fixed it, when he took it apart. He didn't photograph after unfortunately.

I'm not the first owner and the guy who had it before me may well have had a go at fixing it. He did do a few bits to the car in general, and as I said, three of the lugs on the housing were broken.

Anyway .... It didn't work before, and it does now apparently so when I get it back, I'll shoot over to a guy who has one of those black box vis testers and I'll report back on here.

I'm glad that there are people about with know-how. For me, I'd never have a go as I simply don't understand how these things work, and so feel that for people like me, it's good to know that there is a retired guy sitting at home doing very little, who will, for a few beer tokens, repair our vis motors.

[Jay-ZS+]

Originally Posted by KevG

BTW I'm electronics technician.

Know who you send my mechatronics assignments and paypal gifts too