What do you get with this service?
Despite being just a decade old, PS4 consoles move a lot of air through powerful fans and heatsinks to cool down their internals, and even in clean environments, it will cause accumulation of dust and fluff that can clog the airflow and reduce how effective the cooling fans are. Coupled with this, old thermal paste aiming to transfer heat from the processors to the heatsinks, to be dissipated in turn by the moving airflow, loose properties as they get old. Poor thermal dissipation in PS4 can cause overheating and ultimately can lead to the console shutting down.
Our PS4 TLC Refurbishment is a preventative measure to extend the life of your PS4 console. It includes the following:
- Full disassembly to its component parts in order to properly be able to reach all separate internal and external components
- Wash with soap and water all plastic parts and metal shield
- Clean the motherboard, the PSU and the heatsink(s) with compressed air, brushes and non-conductive liquids as required
- Disassemble the Blu-Ray drive for internal cleaning, lubrication of moving parts and cleaning of laser lenses.
- Cleaning and oiling the fans
- Replacing the battery
- Changing thermal paste of the CPU / GPU chip (which is combined in the PS4)
- Remove scratches (to the extent possible), polish the cover of models when it is a gloss finish, and apply a plastic protector to the rest of the console
- Remove rust in the metal shield, if any, and protect it from further damage
What you don’t get with this service
This is not a repair service. Please ensure your system is fully functional as stated in our Terms and Conditions, or contact us before purchasing the service if unsure what will be covered.
Heavily rusted shields ideally need to be painted after removing the rust. Shield painting is not part of this service but it can be added for an extra fee. If you know you want this as part of the service, please let us know via a note at checkout or by the contact page. If during the refurbishment process we find heavy rusting, we will get in touch with you to ask you if you would like to add the painting service or not.
The polishing service will only address superficial scratches. It will not remove deeper scratches, as that requires careful sanding and polishing, which is a lengthy process. This can only be done in surfaces that are one single colour without logos, vinyl patters, and so on. If you are interested in this type of services, please get in touch for a discussion.
Shipping
You are responsible for shipping the system in adequate packaging to our address. An email will be sent to you after purchase with some suggestions about how to do this as well as shipping details. The cost of you shipping your system to us is not included in the price of the service.
The shipping we do charge for this service is to send the console back to you when the service is finished. To the extent possible, we will use the same packaging material you used to send the system to us in the first place. We will replace packaging material if it is damaged when we receive it at no cost to you.
Other information
We also offer some pre-modded consoles. Please check out this area of the shop for any existing stock.
Please check my account on X for photos of refurbishments of various consoles.