TV Repair

[Jeff405]

Anyone here work on TVs or suggest a repairman? It's for my mutha. Thanks

 

[KOPBET]

I thought TVs were pretty much disposable these days.

 

[John6185]

You only have one "mutha," go buy her anew one-they're cheap and she'll appreciate your thoughtfulness. My "mutha" is gone.

 

[NightShade]

I know there is a repair shop off of Penn around willshire or north of there.

But I will say if it's a tube or older projection you are better just getting a new one. If it is an LCD then search online as a lot of times it can be very cheap to fix yourself. I got one here on the forums for free and sent a board in for thirty bucks return shipping included and it has worked great.

 

[stick4]

Neighbors house at the old address was hit by lightning and the power surge traveled over to our house and took out the LAN card on the computer and a 40" LCD TV. I pulled the back off the TV and saw two capacitors were bulged on the smaller of the 2 boards. Wrote down the PN on the board and searched Ebay and found a used one for $50. Installed it and the TV is still working 7 years later.

 

[ShurShot]

I've fixed a few. Feel free to pm and tell me make/model/symptoms and maybe I can help.

 

[Jeff405]

It's a newer (2yrs old) LG, just out of warranty. She found a shop in Moore to take it to, they will check it out for $35 and if they fix it they will apply the $35 to the repair bill. I told her if the repair is half the cost of the TV, she might as well just get a new one. I researched the repair and it looks like it could be several things, so it would be throw money and hope one fixes it if I tried to replace parts. Now she unhappy cause she got rid of all her old school TVs that lasted 20yrs and this one didn't make it over 2 yrs. lol

 

[n423]

It's a newer (2yrs old) LG, just out of warranty. She found a shop in Moore to take it to, they will check it out for $35 and if they fix it they will apply the $35 to the repair bill. I told her if the repair is half the cost of the TV, she might as well just get a new one. I researched the repair and it looks like it could be several things, so it would be throw money and hope one fixes it if I tried to replace parts. Now she unhappy cause she got rid of all her old school TVs that lasted 20yrs and this one didn't make it over 2 yrs. lol

my son took his TV to a shop in Moore and they wanted almost as much as a new TV to repair it. Good luck. This was last year...

 

[Jeff405]

She got the quote for 225 or so, and decided to just pick it up. They said it needs a "backlight kit". Leds went out I suppose. It's an LG 47LN5200. It has sound, but no picture.