Replaced My MacBook Pro Fan

I was probably crazy for doing it, but I took my MacBook Pro, still protected by AppleCare, and replaced a very noisy fan. Made a video of it too. I just could go a week without my laptop, which is what probably would have happened if I sent it in. Plus, I read a lot of horror stories of people sending in their machines for noisy fans and getting them back just as noisy.

Anyway, it all went well. Took only about 30 minutes. But I got lucky. I could have easily slipped up and ended up with a $2,500 paperweight.

October 27, 2007 • Posted in: General

6 Responses to “Replaced My MacBook Pro Fan”

MrBuzzy - October 28, 2007

Fair enough too. My Macbook Pro has been in the shop for over 3 months
Game creation - October 28, 2007

Gary, remind me NOT to buy your macbook pro in a year or 2 from ebay
spiral - October 28, 2007

i have to change the left fan of my MBP, the link to your video doesn’t work..?? to bad…
what do you take of fan replacement..?
Macbook Air - February 8, 2008

Thats a wise move man, your taking less risk doing it yourself in all fairness!
Craig - August 23, 2008

I replaced my fan myself, got kinda a hairy in the heart of the mac book pro, but all in all any person skilled with their hands and able to wing their way through vague instructions could perform the operation.
Larry Doyle - January 13, 2009

Hey Gary… looking to replace my fan, googled into here… didn’t realize it was your site until I scrolled up LOL. Anyway, my MBP right fan is really noisy so I’m going in. I recently replaced the optical drive (so I could install leopard so I could install Apache2 so I could get a Zend framework running). That was a piece of cake, just followed the great videos at http://www.powerbookmedic.com/, also got my parts there, helped having the Torx6 and Torx8 drivers as well as small screw drivers.