DJI Mavic Air repairs
Gimbal cradle and ribbon work, motor arms, water damage and board-level repair – including footage pulled off the storage inside the aircraft when the card has gone.
- Released
- 2018
- Weight
- 430 g
- Camera
- 12 MP · 4K
- Gimbal
- 3-axis
- Storage
- 8 GB internal
Repairs
Something is broken or worn out.
Professional DJI Mavic Air gimbal and camera replacement. Crash-damaged gimbal or dead camera – we replace the assembly, recalibrate and test stabilised footage before it goes back.
Professional DJI Mavic Air gimbal cable (flex) replacement. Image dropouts and gimbal errors – we replace the flex, recalibrate and test the live feed.
What’s included
- 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 Gimbal Cable Flex Replacement
Professional DJI Mavic Air gimbal vibration repair. Shaky footage after a crash – we replace the worn dampers or vibration board and recalibrate the gimbal.
What’s included
- 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 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
- 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 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: Bring the controller, battery, charger and propellers – testing needs the full set.
Good to know: Pay when you drop it off. Fee not refundable. Go ahead with the repair and the fee comes off the price.
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 water damage treatment in London. Ultrasonic cleaning of liquid residue and corrosion, then a full assessment of what the liquid reached.
Please note: The fee covers the clean and the diagnosis together – sometimes the clean alone brings it back. It is not refundable if the device can’t be saved.
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.
More than one to sort out? We take them in batches, one invoice, a report per airframe. Business repairs
Common DJI Mavic Air Problems We Fix
What this aircraft arrives with, and what each repair involves.
Gimbal ribbon & cradle
The Mavic Air’s signature fault. Gimbal error on start-up, a picture that flickers or drops, a camera that droops instead of levelling – almost always the ribbon rather than the camera.
Gimbal vibration & horizon tilt
Wobble in the footage, or a horizon that will not sit straight. Perished rubber mounts or a bent yaw arm.
Gimbal & camera replacement
Where the camera itself is finished. Ruled in only after the cheaper repairs are ruled out.
Board-level repair
Dead on the bench, will not charge, a failed ESC, a short after water. Component-level work – there is no replacement Mavic Air board to buy.
Motor arms & hinges
Cracked arms and hinges gone loose with folding. Worth fixing before it becomes a crash.
Water damage
Stripped, cleaned ultrasonically, corrosion treated, then tested. Read the yellow band below first.
Crash assessment
A proper strip and check with the flight log read, so you get the reason as well as the price.
Footage off the internal storage
The Mavic Air records to 8 GB inside the airframe as well as the card, so footage often survives a crash the card did not.
Calibration & test flight
IMU, compass, gimbal and vision sensors recalibrated after any repair, then hovered and flown.
Something else?
Sensors, aerials, shells, landing feet, controllers, aircraft another shop gave up on.
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.
The Ribbon Is the Weak Point
The ribbon that carries power and video through the gimbal is the thinnest DJI has used, and it bends every time the camera moves. It tears at the fold, and it goes gradually: a flicker, then dropouts, then a gimbal error that will not clear. The good news is that it is a ribbon, not a camera – one of the cheaper repairs here, and not the one people expect.
Your Footage May Be Inside the Drone
The Mavic Air has 8 GB of storage built in and records to it as well as to the card. That matters after a crash: if the card slot broke, the card cracked, or the card ended up in a field, there is often a second copy still inside the drone. Tell us at drop-off, not once it is in pieces.
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 repaired – bring it to Wimbledon, or post it from anywhere in the UK.
What We Do, How, and Why Us
Ribbon and cradle work, cameras and the rubber mounts they hang from, motor arms soldered back to the board, hinges, water damage stripped and cleaned, repair of the circuit board itself, and footage recovered from the storage inside the drone when the card has not survived. One workshop in Wimbledon, post-in from anywhere in the UK.
You get a diagnosis before a price, always. Microscopes, hot-air rework and a thermal camera, on the same bench that repairs laptop mainboards – which is why working on something this small is ordinary here rather than unusual. Then calibration, and a 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 repairs.
Not answered here? Ask us – we reply the same working day.
I get a gimbal error every time it starts up. What is that?
The ribbon, nine times out of ten. The flat cable running through the gimbal fatigues at the fold and stops carrying a reliable signal, so the gimbal cannot complete its start-up check. It is one of the cheaper repairs on this page, and a very different thing from the camera having failed.
I crashed and the memory card is destroyed. Is my footage gone?
Not necessarily. The Mavic Air records to eight gigabytes of internal storage as well as the card, so there is often a second copy inside the aircraft. Tell us the footage matters when you drop it off and we go for that first, before anything is dismantled.
How long does a Mavic Air repair take?
Ribbon, gimbal and motor arm work is two to four hours of bench time, so with the part in stock it is a day or two door to door. Crash assessment and water damage need two to three working days before there is a quote worth giving.
Are parts still available?
For most repairs, yes. Ribbons, dampers, motors, arms and shells are still gettable, and board repairs need nothing supplied. Complete gimbal and camera assemblies are the exception – those come from salvaged aircraft, and some months there are none. We check before quoting.
Is it worth repairing rather than replacing?
For a ribbon, an arm, a set of dampers or a board repair, usually yes – these are small jobs on a small aircraft. A complete gimbal assembly on top of other damage often is not, and you will get that answer before you have spent anything.
Can I post it to you?
Yes, from anywhere in the UK. Card out, battery kept at home, packed in something rigid and sent tracked. It comes back the same way once it has been repaired, calibrated and flown.