DJI Mavic Air 2 repairs
Gimbal and camera, ribbons, motor arms, swollen batteries, water damage and board-level repair — the one aircraft here with a price against every service.
- Released
- 2020
- Weight
- 570 g
- Camera
- 48 MP · 4K/60
- Gimbal
- 3-axis
- Sensing
- Front, rear, down
Repairs
Something is broken or worn out.
Professional DJI Mavic Air 2 gimbal and camera replacement. Crash-damaged gimbal or dead camera — we replace the assembly, recalibrate and test stabilised footage before it goes back.
What’s included in the price
- Replacement part — no hidden extras
- Fitting & labour by in-house technicians
- Full function test before handover
- Up to 12-month warranty
- Diagnostic fee credited towards this repair
- Your data stays untouched
Professional DJI Mavic Air 2 gimbal cable (flex) replacement. Image dropouts and gimbal errors — we replace the flex, recalibrate and test the live feed.
What’s included in the price
- Replacement part — no hidden extras
- Fitting & labour by in-house technicians
- Full function test before handover
- Up to 12-month warranty
- Diagnostic fee credited towards this repair
- Your data stays untouched
Full details for DJI Mavic Air 2 Gimbal Cable Flex Replacement
Professional DJI Mavic Air 2 gimbal vibration repair. Shaky footage after a crash — we replace the worn dampers or vibration board and recalibrate the gimbal.
What’s included in the price
- Replacement part — no hidden extras
- Fitting & labour by in-house technicians
- Full function test before handover
- Up to 12-month warranty
- Diagnostic fee credited towards this repair
- Your data stays untouched
Professional DJI Mavic Air 2 motor arm replacement. A cracked arm grounds the drone — we replace it, transfer the motor and bench-test everything before it flies again.
What’s included in the price
- Replacement part — no hidden extras
- Fitting & labour by in-house technicians
- Full function test before handover
- Up to 12-month warranty
- Diagnostic fee credited towards this repair
- Your data stays untouched
DJI Mavic Air 2 diagnostics — we find the source of the problem and give you a clear quote to fix it. Drones hide several faults behind one symptom — we test the aircraft, open it up where needed, and assess what repair is needed and its chances of success.
Please note: The diagnostic fee is payable upfront and credited toward your repair if you go ahead. If you decline the quote or the device is beyond repair, the fee covers the assessment.
Please note: Bring the controller, battery, charger and propellers — testing needs the full set.
What the assessment fee covers
- Full assessment by an in-house technician
- An honest verdict on what is wrong
- A firm price before any repair starts
- Fee credited towards the repair — you pay the balance of the quote
- No obligation to proceed
Professional dji mavic air 2 water damage treatment in London. Ultrasonic cleaning of liquid residue and corrosion, then a full assessment of what the liquid reached.
Please note: The cleaning fee is paid upfront and carries no warranty — cleaning is decontamination, not a guaranteed fix.
Good to know: Any further repair we quote after cleaning is covered by a 6-month warranty.
What the cleaning fee covers
- Ultrasonic cleaning and corrosion treatment
- Full diagnostics once the board is clean
- An honest verdict on what is worth saving
- A firm price for any further repair before it starts
- No obligation to proceed
Know the fault, but don’t see it listed? Describe it and we’ll price it from your description — free, no device needed. Not sure what’s wrong? That’s what the Diagnostics Service above is for.
A few of these on the shelf at work? We handle them in batches, with collection, return and one invoice. Business repairs
Common DJI Mavic Air 2 Problems We Fix
The jobs this aircraft actually arrives with, and what each one involves.
Gimbal & camera replacement
For a camera assembly past repairing — cracked lens, snapped yaw arm, a motor that will not hold. Ribbon and dampers get ruled out first; they are a fraction of the price.
Gimbal vibration & jelly footage
Ripple in the video or a horizon off level. Usually dampers, sometimes a yaw arm, occasionally an unbalanced prop.
Ribbon & video dropout
The thinnest gimbal ribbon we handle, and it folds every time you pack the aircraft away.
Motor arms & motors
Long flight times put real hours on the bearings. Grinding at spin-up, an ESC error, or an arm cracked at the hinge.
Swollen batteries
The 3,500 mAh pack is six years old now. A puffed pack jams in the bay and stops being safe before it stops working.
Water damage
Ultrasonic clean and corrosion treatment before anything is powered. Read the yellow band below first.
Crash assessment
Stripped and checked properly, with the flight log read. A written quote, and the reason it came down.
Board-level repair
No power, no charge, a failed ESC or a short after water. Component-level work on the same bench that does laptop mainboards.
Calibration & test flight
IMU, compass, gimbal and vision sensors recalibrated after any repair, then hovered and flown.
Something else?
Aerials, sensors, landing feet, shells, controllers. Describe the fault and we will price it.
We Read the Flight Log
Visible damage we repair, calibrate and test-fly before it comes back to you. When nothing looks broken, or you want to know why it came down, the drone recorded the answer.
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What Is In It
Battery cell voltages, how hard each motor was working, satellite count, signal strength, altitude, and every warning the drone gave before it stopped recording.
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What It Usually Says
A motor that had been working harder than the other three for weeks. A battery cell dropping under load. A signal that cut out and sent the drone home into something.
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What to Bring
The phone or tablet you fly with, or the flight record saved in the DJI app. If the drone is dead but the board survived, we can usually read it from there.
Not every repair needs this, and we will tell you when yours does not. Sometimes a log stops for a reason nothing can recover. Sometimes it shows the drone was flown into something, and you get told that too.
Swollen Batteries
The most common Air 2 fault, and the one people leave longest. Batteries swell as they age, so the pack fits tighter each time until it will not come out at all. If yours sits proud of the bay, or the drone has stopped recognising it, stop flying. Bring the drone and the battery together and we will test the cells rather than guess.
No Side Sensors
The Air 2 sees forwards, backwards and down, but not to the sides. Almost every crashed Air 2 that reaches us went sideways into something the drone could never have seen. It is not a fault and there is nothing to fix in advance — but it is worth knowing before your next flight.
Crashed It, or Been in Water? Do This First
What happens in the next hour decides how much of it we can save.
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Do Not Power It Up
Not to see whether it still works. A wet or bent drone survives being left alone; it does not survive being switched on. Battery out, and leave it out.
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Take the Card Out
Your footage is on the microSD and it is nearly always fine even when the aircraft is not. Take it out and keep it before the drone comes to us.
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Bring It In As It Is
Loose parts and all, in a box, not reassembled. Salt water is the urgent one: it corrodes by the hour, so a drone out of the sea needs to be here today.
No rice, and no hairdryer or radiator — heat speeds corrosion up rather than stopping it. We strip it, clean every board ultrasonically, treat the corrosion and only then test. If the footage matters more than the aircraft, say so at drop-off and we go for that first.
Ways to Use Our Service
Two ways to get your Mavic Air 2 repaired — bring it to Wimbledon, or post it from anywhere in the UK.
What We Do, How, and Why Us
Camera and gimbal work, the video ribbon and the rubber mounts, motor arms soldered back to the board rather than glued, swollen batteries tested properly, water damage stripped and cleaned, and repair of the circuit board itself when the fault is on the board rather than around it. One workshop in Wimbledon, post-in from anywhere in the UK.
A diagnosis before a price — though on this drone most prices are already on the page, because the parts are still easy to get. Microscopes, hot-air rework and a thermal camera to find what is failing, then the sensors, the camera and the obstacle cameras recalibrated, and a real flight before it comes back to you.
What Customers Say
Every repair carries a warranty. These are unedited reviews left on Google and Trustpilot.
Good to Know
The questions we are asked most about Mavic Air 2 repairs.
Not answered here? Ask us — we reply the same working day.
My battery has swollen. Is that dangerous?
Treat it as though it is. Stop flying, do not charge it, and do not force it in or out of the bay. Swelling is a lithium cell venting internally and it does not get better. Bring the aircraft and the pack in together and we will test the cells and tell you whether the aircraft is fine, which it usually is.
How long does a Mavic Air 2 repair take?
Gimbal, ribbon and motor arm work is two to four hours on the bench, and parts for this model are still in normal supply, so a day or two door to door is typical. Crash assessment and water damage need two to three working days before there is a quote worth giving.
It has lost range since I clipped a branch. Is the aircraft damaged?
Very likely, and probably not where you think. The OcuSync aerials run through the front arms, so a cracked arm can cost you signal long before it costs you the arm itself. If the range problem started after an impact, that is where we look first.
Do you use genuine DJI parts?
Where the part exists we use original or original-specification parts, and for the Air 2 most still do. We confirm what is going in before you agree to it, and where only a salvaged original is available we say so rather than describing it as new.
I have DJI Care Refresh. Should I use that or come to you?
Use it if it is in date and you have replacements left — a one-year plan covers two, a two-year plan four, including collision and water damage. On an aircraft this recent a replacement is often the better deal, and we would rather tell you that than take the job.
Can I post it to you?
Yes, from anywhere in the UK. Card out, battery kept at home unless the battery is the problem, packed in something rigid and sent tracked. It comes back the same way once it has been repaired, calibrated and flown.