Please help with wii problem....

[EffBee]

My youngest lad's wii has stopped working after years of heavy use. He is getting disk read error messages on every disk he tries to use. We have bought and used the official wii lens cleaner but although it helped a little the disks still won't load properly. I expect the laser has gone.

What is the best way to get a RELIABLE repair? Is it a do-it-yourself replacement?

Thanks in advance.

 

[EffBee]

Is it only happening after the new firmware update came out?
There have been reports of wii's breaking and showing disk errors after the update.

http://kotaku.com/5372065/wii-update-42-is-killing-wiis-dead

Yes - a definite maybe

There have been updates and he has applied them.

However the failure to read disks might have been a gradual process .

Sorry - but he is a bit vague about the symptoms.