Drone repair options?

[anomad]

Following up on my older thread here. I ended up shipping the crashed drone back to DJI. Which was very easy. They charged me 100 bucks (my stupid tax) and sent me a brand new model. Updated from the one I sent them. I didn't have any kind of special coverage or anything, but I might consider it now. Took about a week. Better service than I could have expected.

 

[TMGT]

Thats pretty good, I crashed my Bwine F7 a while back and just got around to fixing it. 2 new motor/arm assemblies, "landing gear", new props and its good to go.

Been using it to log my current shop build, just wish I had fixed it earlier so I could have gotten aerial photos before clearing.

Sent from my SM-S921U using TractorByNet mobile app

 

[Happy in NC]

I had Autel. They were great about a crash for parts. Put on top of a 60ft Pine. Had to replace the body. It was cheap and quick. Also had one just bolt one time. Never figured out why or how far it went. Inquired with Autel and they had me send them the flight logs. Replaced with brand new one. Radio, drone and battery in less then a week. Gave it to my son just recently.

 

[Torvy]

They charged me 100 bucks (my stupid tax) and sent me a brand new model.

This is a great indicator for how big the markup is on these things.

I was looking into getting one just for looking over the acreage and such. Way too pricey right now. I guess I'll have to wait until prices come down. Eventually, more players will enter the market and quality will go up while prices go down.

 

[old and tired]

Fix it myself?

I couldn't, at least the model I had (think it was a 3, the light weight one). Once I replaced the camera, the serial number did not match what was there so it didn't work.

I'm leaning towards sending it off to pros to fix.

You have to send it to DJI; not sure if others have the ability to fix them or not. This was a pretty long time ago so I don't know if this is still the case but it left me with a strong hatred for the company.

Basically, with no right to repair... it means to me that I don't actually own it, just renting it from the company. Luckily, I was within the time limit to return it for a full refund.