Help: My track pad sometimes doesn't work.
I was on a plane, and a diet soda exploded on me. A little bit got on my MBP. Nothing got on the keyboard at all, but some did get on the trackpad. I wiped it up as soon as I could, but after that the track pad acted real funky. I shut it down, and booted it up about 3 hours later, and sometimes the track pad would work just fine, and then other times it would go crazy, not be responsive, and navigate all kinds of places whenever I touched it a little bit.
I shut the laptop down for a day, and came back to it, and it is still incredibly inconsistent. Help.
You need to take it into your local Apple Store and just pay for the repair. Spills are not covered under your warranty and there are liquid contact indicators in your MBP which will let Apple know that you had a spill.
Sorry,
Clinton
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