Recent experience with rubber feet coming off?

The top left rubber foot of my MBP bought in July 2011 has come off. My Apple Care expires today (grr) and my local store closes in 10 minutes, so there's no way I'll make it there. I've seen some past threads about this issue, but most are from 2011 or earlier, when rubber feet weren't sold separately.
So, what are my options? Most of the stuff I've read seems to recommend changing the whole bottom case. I'm hoping that's not necessary in my case - only the exterior part of the contraption has come off. Can I just buy a new rubber foot and stick only the exterior part back on where the old one was? Is there a way to stick the old foot back on (I still have it, but am hesitant to use another type of glue in case it damages the computer)? Any other options I'm missing? I've already had to pay for a new battery and cable that weren't covered by the Apple Care, so I'm hoping to avoid any additional fees!
Thanks for reading!

Sorry to bump off this topic, has anyone experienced this?

Similar Messages

Bottom rubber feet peeling off.

The four(4) black round rubber feet on my MBP are peeling off. I've kept them in place with some adhesive,
but one side of them are popped out of the aluminum housing and this suck.
Should I buy new rubber feet on eBay? Or should I pay about a hundred bucks to replace the bottom aluminum cover?
(I'm in South Korea right now, so repairing everything is kinda costly.)

Dopehat wrote:
Should I buy new rubber feet on eBay? Or should I pay about a hundred bucks to replace the bottom aluminum cover?
that depends on how much you want to spend and which one would be acceptable to you.

My recent experience with Verizon wireless

Approximately two years ago, I decided to switch to Verizon wireless from another carrier because the company I work for has a corporate account with them and offers discounts to employees that have their personal accounts with VZW as well. I got a vanilla iPhone 4 and everything was going well until recently when I made the mistake of trying to upgrade my phone.
My first attempt to upgrade was two days ago. I entered the Independence, Ohio corporate store and wandered around a bit assuming a sales person would be around to see me soon. My main goal was to decide whether to upgrade to the HTC 8x or the Nokia Lumina 928 as I have a surface and I was interested in getting all my devices onto the same platform (Windows 8). After five minutes or so I detected a presence and I started describing the above to the salesperson who had appeared next to me. He stared at me blankly and flatly stated that he was just there to "check me in." He assured me it would only be 15 minutes or so, so I gave him my number and continued playing around with the test phones they had on display. Thirty minutes later, I was getting anxious watching what seemed like tens of employees wandering aimlessly throughout the store staring at tablets or talking with customers about seemingly unrelated topics (video games, weather etc...), I walked out with the thought that I would just upgrade online.
I went onto Verizon's website later that evening and attempted to upgrade. I got all the way to the point where I select my delivery method and selected pick up at store. I found the store I had visited earlier in the day and it said "Available for pick up in this store;" however, when I attempted to continue there was an error and it didn't allow me to complete the purpose. Seeing as many of us operate under the "I want it now" mentality, I wanted to avoid having to ship the device and thought that it should be easy enough to somehow get this transaction completed in person.
Next day I went to a different Verizon store in hopes it would be less busy. This time, I walked in and there were four guys sitting around in an empty store twiddling their thumbs with cigarettes strewn about the main desk. They asked what I had come for and I told them. They incredulously asked me why I would want a Windows 8 phone. I told them. They said they didn't have that phone because it was a "rare" phone. They then proceeded to train the "new" guy (4th guy doing nothing) on how to check inventory. When I asked them whether the Independence store had the phone they proceeded to describe to me in excruciating detail the "intricacies" underlying corporate vs self-owned branches and how they couldn't check the inventory of Independence due to it being the former. They then said I could upgrade with them and then drive thirty minutes to the nearest non-corporate store to pick up the phone. Sounds like a great solution.... right. I declined and left.
Later that day I returned to the Independence store and went through the same song and dance as before; however, this time I was determined to wait. I "checked in" with the fellow at the front and set in to wait. After about thirty minutes of watching "employees" mill around aimlessly heads-down, staring at tablets and wandering in and out of the "back room" someone called for "Tim" - my name is "Tom" - apparently the greeter had failed at his one mission of greeting customers and GETTING THEIR NAME RIGHT. I get that it's a similar enough name but at this point I was getting frustrated. I had spent upwards of 2 hours between store visits and web-form filler-outing simply trying to give Verizon more money. And it wasn't over yet...
"Tim" acknowledged the woman and she trundled over to help. I asked her whether the HTC 8x was free to upgrade to as that is the deal offered online and there is even a link online that allows you to "get this deal at your local store." She said she would have to check. After fiddling with her magic tablet for a minute or two she sorrowfully informed me that it was $99 dollars to upgrade to that phone in the store. She then ushered me to a kiosk and asked me to log into My Verizon account on there to see if the deal was available via that method. At that point she got a person involved who was presumably a "manager" who was standing in the midst of the store, arms crossed, scanning the sea of people hoping to buy phones interspersed with employees wandering around (heads down, staring at tablets, of course), and just generally looking important (or trying to). I said to him: so I can upgrade here but you can't just hand me a phone, I have to have it shipped to me? His response was: "Yup, sorry dude." Great. Fine, I say: I go through the whole process again and at checkout, the phone is 99 instead of free like I had seen at home. His response, "Oh, sorry man." Throwing up my hands, I left thinking - company discount be ****** - I was going to switch to a different provider.
By the time I had arrived at home, I had cooled off a bit and I figured I would just try the shipping thing again in order to avoid having to interact with these phone salespeople again. I went through the process, got my "free" HTC 8x upgrade - with the exception of the $30 "upgrade fee" of course - which covers three hours of a tablet-staring, empty-eyed salesperson's salary and completed my order. (NB: I went through the process of "verifying" my device so I could have the new phone shipped to a different shipping address cf. my billing address as I am out of town on business and won't be back at my home residence for another two weeks. This alternate address is a separate house - a real address - I keep in another city). Finally, I think, done and upgraded - won't have to deal with them for another two years.
Two hours later, I get an email saying my order was shipped. That was fast, I think at first with glee! Then I check the email... they had shipped the phone to my home address... the place I won't be for two weeks. Grumbling, I picked up the phone and suffered through the pain that is the Verizon automated phone system attempting to reach another human. Finally, I reach a bubbly gal' with a thick Southern accent (nice enough actually) who apologized and said she would sent in a change order to FedEx to get my phone rerouted to my current address. Ok I said, thank you for your help - should I expect a confirmation from FedEx? Yes, she said - expect it by the morning.
Fast forward to this morning where I'm sitting in a meeting and my phone goes off - incoming call from Irvine, California - strange. I return to my meeting. Fifteen minutes later, same number calls. I excuse myself from the meeting - this must be an emergency. I pick up: HI THIS IS AN AUTOMATED CALL FROM VERIZON WIRELESS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO TAKE A SURVEY. I hang up in disgust and return to my job. After the meeting is over, I get onto my computer to check the status of my phone delivery. Yup, as expected - happily on its way to my HOME address where it will either be returned to sender or left sitting on my doorstep for two weeks.
Great work.
-An Unhappy Customer. (AKA "Tim")

Man that was way to long....................!
First send a certified return receipt requested letter to the address on your invoice. Dispute the $299.00 then wait for the green receipt card to come back to you. Tell them exactly why you are disputing it. Photos don't match, not the phone you sent bac and all the problems you have had with your service, if you have contact names state them in the letter.
Make copies of the letter you sent, any corrospondence you received from them, invoices, etc. dates, times of phone calls, and go to a Small Claims court and sue them for all amounts in dispute. Add in the cost of the certified letter, loss from work fir going to court, filing fees, and make sure you have all your documents ready for the judge.
Do not elect arbitration from verizon at anytime just have your case heard in court. Do not settle with verizon unless they credit you the full amount you are asking for. The loss/damage phone scam is common with verizon just do a google search on it, print them out to show the judge it is questionable that you are to blame for the damage.
Its a scam from the vendor Verizon uses to collect these devices. Damage claims have to be filed by verizon if they are paying for the return back to them.
Also sue them in a State Supreme court for cutting off your service without following the fair debt collection act. You can dispute orally, but must write to preserve your rights.
Good Luck

Recent experience with FileVault?

Our University is coercing us to encrypt the hard drives of all laptops. The preferred method is WinMagic SecureDoc, but they'll allow us to use FileVault on our Mac laptops (as long as we turn on encrypted VM). It seems most of the FileVault information here in the Discussion is very dated, so I'm searching for current information from those who are using it. My questions are:
1) Has it worked flawlessly for you? Have you or any you know been locked out of your data because of problems with FileVault?
2) In http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8727.html (which is for Mac OS 10.5), it states:
"Because your home folder is encrypted, some tasks that normally access your home folder may be prevented. If you’re not logged in to your computer, other users won’t have access to shared folders in your home folder. Also, some automations or scripts that require data stored in you home folder may not run."
We're research scientists-- we write data analysis programs (in C and some even in FORTRAN) and shell scripts to do our work. We also use Igor Pro (wavemetrics.com), and many of the Adobe and Microsoft Office programs. Can you tell me what things _won't_ work with FileVault? I'm aware of the problems with TimeMachine, but what about other programs that are broken by FileVault?
3) Most of our Mac laptop users run their disks at around 80% full (or more). To enable FileVault there must be temporarily enough free space to contain the home directory plus the encrypted version. I imagine the solution is to use an external disk, copy the home directory to that disk, erase most of the data from the home directory on the laptop, then turn on FileVault. After it's encrypted the smaller home directory, you can copy the complete one back from the external disk. With current disk sizes, this is a hugely time-consuming process. Have you found a better way to do it? I imagine the reverse holds true if you want to turn off FileVault--you must have enough space on your laptop to hold 2 copies of your home directory. In that case would you clone the whole disk to the external drive, boot from that, then turn off FileVault, then clone it all back to your laptop drive?
Thanks in advance for any help or comments.

Sorry to bump off this topic, has anyone experienced this?

Bottom rubber feet falling off

The Rubberish plastic like foot on the bottom of my MacBook, the one closest to the magsafe power adapter, has fallen off. How can I fix this?

Which exact MacBook model is this? The construction and feet vary according to model.
You can choose from this list:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/index-macbook.html

Macbook (white) rubber part coming off.

I have been looking around the internet and I see that this is a common problem. I was just wondering if the Apple repair shop will fix it even though I no longer have insurance, and since it's the older white macbook and not the newer unibody one.

Kinda looks like this
http://www.marccizravi.com/uploads/2010/02/CrackBookcloseup.jpg

Charger wire rubber coming off?

Hi,
The charger wire that comes with the 3gIphone, if the white rubber that covers the internal wiring is coming off, is that bad? my wire, the end which you connect into the computer or into the wall adapter, that section the white rubber is coming off for some reason and i can see the wires inside, is it still safe to use?

It is safe to use, but this is covered under the iPhone's one year warranty.
If you are in the U.S., you can call AppleCare at (800) 694-7466 and AppleCare will ship you a replacement USB cable, or you can make an appointment at an Apple store if there is one nearby.

Does anyone sell replacement rubber feet for Macbook pro?

Replacement rubber feet for MBP unibody. This might sort the issue with the wobble I have.

This is what I sent. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks for the input.
Mr. Cook,
I've been a loyal customer for a decade. Recently three of the four plastic/rubber feet fell off of the bottom of my mid-2009 2.8 GHz MBP S/N W89XXXXXXYB. I called the Apple Store I use most often, Aspen Grove in Littleton, CO. I described the problem to a genius. They told me that they would have replacement feet waiting available at the Genius Bar within a week or so at no charge.
I went to the Aspen Grove Store on Wednesday, December 14, to pick up the feet. I met with a young lady named Kacy. She first told me that she would get the feet for me. She then told me that I had to bring my computer in and a genius would install the feet. Then she went in the back for a few minutes, came out and told me that the feet were not available. She said that I needed a whole new bottom piece, but that it would be covered. Kacy went in the back again, came and told me that the bottom wouldn't be covered after all, that my only option was to pay $186 for a new bottom piece.
About that time the business pro, Greg, came up. After hearing the problem he told Kacy that Apple could cover the bottom piece. They then conferred for a few moments, went back in to the back of the store and returned a few minutes later once again reneging on the offer to replace the bottom piece.
I had an appointment, so I voiced my displeasure with Greg and Kacy about being treated like a Yo-yo.
When I had time later in the evening, I called the Aspen Grove store and asked for the store manager. Instead I was directed to a manager on duty (I think), Hailey. I attempted to explained the situation to Hailey, but she continued to interrupt me, characterize Apple employees offers to take care of the problem and then renege on those offers as a "misunderstanding." She was completely intractible and began to take on a tone of taunting me about the situation. Exasperated, I ended the call.
Hoping for a different experience, I went to the Briargate store in Colorado Springs on 12/26. Instead, I received a whole lot of "so what," shoulder shrugging and indifference from the employees there.
Sir, I understand that things wear out and break, but it cannot by Apple's position that the only way to replace three plastic feet that maybe cost 50 cents is by buying a $186 replacement part, can it?
The position and attitude of your employees in this matter is such a sea change from the exemplerary customer service I've previously seen that I'm struggling to understand what's changed at Apple. An ipad 3, iphone 5, new laptops for my wife and I and a desktop workstation are all on the wish list for my growing photography business in 2012, but I'm sure you can understand my new found reticence at purchasing more Apple products if this is the way I will be treated.
Thank you for your time and attention in this matter.
Jack Bayles
Larkspur, CO
< Edited by Host >

Rubber Feet Replacement

I've read many discussions about rubber feet falling off of some macbook pros. I've lost two of my rubber feet, and I'm trying to get the approx size or length of the rubber feet on a 13'' macbook pro. It is not under warranty, and apple would have to replace the entire bottom plate just for two feet. I don't want to spend $50, when I spent over a $1000 for this. If someone can tell me where to purcahse these same rubber feet for less than $20, I would very much appreciate it. Please and thank you.

i have the same issue as you. I posted back in 2010 with no resolution too.
However, I just found out about this.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook-bottomcase/
I am going to check out my local Apple store and see if they honour this because mine is from 2009. But I had this happened to me late 2010, and I posted on this forum about my experience. So hopefully they will honour this for me even though mine is more than 2 years old.

X200 Rubber Feet Replacement?

One of the front rubber feet fell off my new x200, and it is nowhere to be found. Is there anywhere I can get a replacement for it? I tried searching for the part on lenovo's site, but couldnt' see it anywhere. Is it just too early for them to start selling these things?

My front left rubber foot keeps falling off. Is there a certain glue that i should use to reattach the thing for good?

G410 rubber feet replacement?

My G410 laptop's rubber feet came off and its nowhere to be found. Where can I buy a replacement for this and how much?
Thanks

don't think you can get it as replacement part, i suggest you go to a hardware store and see what you can find, you have to do a bit of DIY rubber feet replacement.

Do the rubber feet on the MBP fall off???

Hi -
I got my MacBook Pro back in June.
The rubber feet on this thing are great, keep it gripped to the table, keep it elevated slightly...
Problem I've encounterd recently is that the rubber feet are getting some scratches on them.
I suspect it being due to my just putting it on a table, the table must have at times, had little crumbs or debris or something that could have caused it to scratch? I don't know.
The scratches are minimal - they are, for the most part, cosmetic.
My fear is that these will fall off. I've read that Apple keeps the MBP overnight and wants $50 to replace the feet, and that the feet actually screw into the case.
With all that being said, is it likely that the feet on the MBP will just fall off or break off??
I'm loving my MacBook... but seeing how these rubber feet get scratches so easily, without really even having anything sharp touching them, I am a bit concerned. I've put it on a surface, and I'm guessing something very small left over had scratched the rubber feet. I'm not sure... I'm not an expert on that. The scratches are minimal, I'd consider them to be cosmetic, but this is still a concern of mine.
Thanks.

Sunny's mommy wrote:
You can get them from the Apple store. I know the geniuses definitely have them, or they used to. Don't know about the people actually working on the floor.
For the new model with the wide black feet? Already?
I take it you now have a paper-punch-sized hole where the foot was, correct?
What I might do while we wait for replacement MB AL feet to become widely available (in any case), is get some Avery removable colored dots to cover up the hole(s). If at all possible, if the missing foot is from the screwed-on case rather than the access panel, I'd move a remaining foot from the removable panel to the case. The feet look as if they can be pushed out from inside.
I'm not sure how they are installed on the MB AL case, but it'd seem you got a poorly glued one.
So far we're fine. If enough people report foot loss here's hoping Apple'l put up a tech note about it.
It's conceiveable that your foot failed so early because the MB was exposed to an unusual temperature/humidity environment, or an out-of-spec glue job slipped through QA.
Every one of these new MB's & MB Pros are warrantied till at least October of the coming year, so it shouldn't cost you anything if there are enough instances of foot loss reported.
''86

I had a recent not so great experience with Adobe Connect

I had a recent not so great experience with Adobe Connect that I need you help on. Keep in mind that I tested the Connect session with the presenter the day before and Connect worked very well.   On the day of the event I opened the room to get the speaker logged in as a “Presenter”. No problems with that however I noticed that there was no “Share My Screen” button to be found anywhere. In essence I could not get him connected.
To resolve this I was forced to close out the old session and start a fresh one where I could share the presenter’s screen. Once we were going a few of the participants mentioned that they were having problems getting audio. Most online said they were fine but a few mentioned that we not getting the audio fluidly. I explained that it may be due to their bandwidth and to be patient that it would cache. Then I notice that same issue that I had talked about with a Connect technician before where all audio stops working after about 1hour into the presentation. They way I have resolved this was to log the presenter out and log him back in.
Keep in mind that I am online with 3 other computers via WiFi monitoring and seeing the presentation as the online viewers are seeing it and I can see it coming through flawlessly. So, for the few who had problems I attributed it to the lack of bandwidth in their area.   However, at 1 hour into the presentation the audio dropped out completely while the video was fine and this reflected on my machines as well. This is the continuing experience that I keep having with Connect. The total amount of people online was 9.
Now, I have a Photoshop user group meeting that will take place online this Thursday June 17th from 5 – 7pm featuring Dave Cross and we have about 200 people registered for that. It would be great if we could have one of the engineers attend that session.
I look forward to your reply.

I had a recent not so great experience with Adobe Connect that I need you help on. Keep in mind that I tested the Connect session with the presenter the day before and Connect worked very well.   On the day of the event I opened the room to get the speaker logged in as a “Presenter”. No problems with that however I noticed that there was no “Share My Screen” button to be found anywhere. In essence I could not get him connected.
To resolve this I was forced to close out the old session and start a fresh one where I could share the presenter’s screen. Once we were going a few of the participants mentioned that they were having problems getting audio. Most online said they were fine but a few mentioned that we not getting the audio fluidly. I explained that it may be due to their bandwidth and to be patient that it would cache. Then I notice that same issue that I had talked about with a Connect technician before where all audio stops working after about 1hour into the presentation. They way I have resolved this was to log the presenter out and log him back in.
Keep in mind that I am online with 3 other computers via WiFi monitoring and seeing the presentation as the online viewers are seeing it and I can see it coming through flawlessly. So, for the few who had problems I attributed it to the lack of bandwidth in their area.   However, at 1 hour into the presentation the audio dropped out completely while the video was fine and this reflected on my machines as well. This is the continuing experience that I keep having with Connect. The total amount of people online was 9.
Now, I have a Photoshop user group meeting that will take place online this Thursday June 17th from 5 – 7pm featuring Dave Cross and we have about 200 people registered for that. It would be great if we could have one of the engineers attend that session.
I look forward to your reply.

Two rubber feet have fallen off my macbook pro ..... i have tried online to have them replaced under apples back replacement programme but whe i enter the serial number i am told i dont qualify for this programme, but no reason is given.....?

I own a 15" macbook pro, purchased in mid 2010. Two of the rubber feet have recently fallen off and while researching how to replace them i discovered Apple have a "replacement back programme" for just such a problem. I entered the serial number in their website and was told i do not qualify for said programme.....No reason given at all.......although they state that macbooks bought at the time i purchased mine should qualify.....any ideas ????

Call Apple Customer Relations - 1-800-767-2275. Ask politely & firmly that you want to be transferred to Customer Relations. Tell them exactly what you stated in your post.
GOOD LUCK!

Rubber case of my macbook is coming off? 1 year warranty has already expired?

rubber case of my macbook is coming off? 1 year warranty has already expired? i bought my macbook last march 2010.are they going to charge me? i already set up an appointment with them this week. help me..

What do you want us to do????.....go to the appointment ....show them the problem.....

Recent experience with rubber feet coming off?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for