Laptop housing replacement?

lawrence281 · 21 Oct 2015 at 14:41

Wanted to sell a laptop i sadly didnt take good care of and the housing on the sides and front i guess have marks and scratches. Is it possible to find places that sell entire housing for the brand or model and easily replace it?

Dont have much knowledge on laptops

Armageus · 21 Oct 2015 at 14:49

lawrence281 said:
Wanted to sell a laptop i sadly didnt take good care of and the housing on the sides and front i guess have marks and scratches. Is it possible to find places that sell entire housing for the brand or model and easily replace it?

Dont have much knowledge on laptops

You can normally find the parts on ebay - normally listed as laptop "plastics", but try terms such as base, bottom, chassis etc. along with the laptop model number.

As to actually replacing it, depends how handy you are at taking things apart - best bet is to try and find a servicing manual/pdf and follow that.

If it's just superficial scratches though, might be worth giving it ago with some car polish for example, can normally improve some of the scratches.

lawrence281 · 21 Oct 2015 at 15:07

Asus X550CA-XX985H 15.6-inch Notebook (Intel Core i3-3217U 1.8GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, DVD-RW, Intel HD 4000, Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA, Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit)
Is the laptop I have, have the link but I cant link other suppliers, but i tried find it with the model number on ebay, dont seem to find any

Armageus · 21 Oct 2015 at 15:11

lawrence281 said:
Asus X550CA-XX985H 15.6-inch Notebook (Intel Core i3-3217U 1.8GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, DVD-RW, Intel HD 4000, Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA, Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit)
Is the laptop I have, have the link but I cant link other suppliers, but i tried find it with the model number on ebay, dont seem to find any

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_o...stics.TRS0&_nkw=asus+x550ca+plastics&_sacat=0

Price of the parts makes it not worth bothering as it's money you won't get back. Get some car scratch remover/polish and give that a go.