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Car keys fixed, TV remotes on the shelf

Quoted per job

Every remote in the house ends up here eventually. Car key remotes we repair — often for a fraction of the dealer's replace-and-program quote. TV and media remotes we mostly just have: replacement remotes for most brands on the shelf, universals when the original is long gone, and fast ordering for anything we don't hold.

Before & after

Macro photo of a remote control circuit board with a crack running through its copper tracks, annotated OH NO, look at that crackBefore
The same remote circuit board repaired, with fine jumper wires soldered in to rebuild every broken track to the chip, annotated YAY, circuits all repairedAfter
A cracked board most places would call dead. Every broken track rebuilt by hand with jumper wire — too corroded to save any other way.
A grimy black Panasonic HDD recorder remote control on a green cutting mat, buttons discoloured with years of useBefore
The same Panasonic remote's outer shell, stripped down and cleaned spotless on the same cutting matAfter
A TV remote that had lived on the arm of the couch for a decade — stripped down and cleaned back to new.

More from the bench

A flip car key remote dismantled on the bench, shown grimy before cleaning and reassembled working afterwards, with hand-drawn Eww, Clean and Fixed labels
A flip key that had lived a hard life — stripped, cleaned, new cell, back together and working.

Car key remotes — try us before the dealer

A car remote that's stopped working usually hasn't died — it's had a battery go flat, a button contact wear through, or a drink spilled on it. A dealer replacement runs into hundreds of dollars and needs programming. Bring it here first; often there's nothing wrong that a clean and a new cell won't fix.

  • Battery replacement
  • Worn or unresponsive buttons
  • Cracked or split cases
  • Liquid damage — ultrasonic cleaned like any other board
  • Corroded boards, up to and including rebuilding damaged tracks

Car brands we handle

Holden, Ford, Toyota, Mazda, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Audi, Lexus, Hyundai, Daihatsu, Chevrolet, HSV, BMW, Volkswagen, Jeep, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Peugeot, Citroën, Mercedes, Renault, Land Rover, Jaguar, Kia, Volvo, Honda, Suzuki, Mini, Rolls-Royce and Porsche — among others. If yours isn't on the list, it's still worth asking.

TV and media remotes — mostly in stock

Replacement remotes for most brands of TV, Foxtel and pay-TV boxes, DVD and Blu-ray players, and streamers like Roku, Chromecast and Apple TV. Universal remotes too, for when the original is beyond finding. Anything we don't have on the shelf we can order in quickly — and if the remote itself is worth saving, we repair those the same way we do car keys.

Worth trying before you replace anything

It costs you a five-minute conversation to find out. Worst case we tell you it needs replacing, and there's a good chance the replacement is on our shelf anyway. Best case you walk out with your own remote working again for a fraction of the price.

Not sure if we can do it?

Ask anyway. We've said yes to stranger requests than yours.

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