How hard is it to replace the landing gears?

ManBearPig1989 · Mar 7, 2019

I have only had this drone for a few weeks and given the lack of free time lately I have ended up keeping it stowed in the fly more bag. Today I got it out of the bag and noticed the two front landing gears were bent and damaged... I'm guessing this is from the extremely tight fit causing me to damage it either packing it in or removing it. Having called up numerous repair places the quotes are all ranging around 300 dollars which seems like a lot. Any Australians on know whether or not I'm stuck with this excessive repair cost or not? Is it possible or plausible to replace them myself? Attached are pics of the bent landing gears.

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Former Member · Mar 7, 2019

Send it in to DJI. It might not hurt too badly. All they need to do is replace the legs, not the whole arms.

You can try to replace just the legs yourself, but it's not an easy repair.

Mavic 2 front leg replacement problems.

crlmjohnson · Mar 7, 2019

How?
Can the parts be purchased from dji?

Former Member · Mar 7, 2019

DJI does not sell replacement parts for their drones. I buy new and used drones and get the parts off of them to repair peoples drones.

RZR12 · Mar 7, 2019

Go to YouTube, there are a few video's showing how to replace or repair the landing gear.

Hardgainer · Mar 7, 2019

Hi from Melbourne.... had to replace leg on my MPP if its similar pretty straight forward. Got leg via net . You need the very small driver for bolt removal. Slide back as removed making sure internals are as originally positioned and lock it up. Pity we dont have Thunderdrones in OZ.

Former Member · Mar 7, 2019

Hardgainer said:
Hi from Melbourne.... had to replace leg on my MPP if its similar pretty straight forward. Got leg via net . You need the very small driver for bolt removal. Slide back as removed making sure internals are as originally positioned and lock it up. Pity we dont have Thunderdrones in OZ.

The MP and MPP front legs are easy to replace. Just 3 screws...

The M2 has the LED built into the leg. Needs to be unsoldered, resoldered, and installed. Not so easy.

ManBearPig1989 · Mar 7, 2019

Found some guys at uavme who were willing to replace both arms for 120, seems like that's the best deal I'm going to get. Thanks all for the feedback anyway... For those asking where to get M2 replacement arms, AliExpress was selling the full set for fairly cheap. Not sure how trustworthy that is but from the images it seemed legitimate.

Turn11 · Mar 9, 2019

IMHO I don’t see Rob self promoting himself to others in their hour of need.
Thunderdrones makes leg braces for MPP & M2 (and other models).
You might want to look at them and also consider another way to carry the AC.

Mavic Leg Savers! Dont leave home without them!

Former Member · Mar 9, 2019

Turn11 said:
IMHO I don’t see Rob self promoting himself to others in their hour of need.
Thunderdrones makes leg braces for MPP & M2 (and other models).
You might want to look at them and also consider another way to carry the AC.

Mavic Leg Savers! Dont leave home without them!

I appreciate that!

AzBill · Mar 16, 2019

The "landing gear" contain the antennas, use care if you do this yourself and replace "exactly" as they were from the factory. It is possible to pull the wires off the printer circuit antennas and have a bigger problem.