Tinkerer
Hello. Can anyone please advise on where to purchase replacement rubber pads/feet for my Acer Vero Chromebook?
I've just bought a new Chromebook and the little pads that prevent the lid from hitting the palm rest,
have already fallen off and gone missing. I like to keep my kit as damage free as possible, so any help to find these parts or something similar that I can jury-rig to fit, would be greatly appreciated.
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What is your Aspire Vero laptops exact model number it should be AV15-xx, as we can't look upo or give you any part numbers without that number, if these rubber pads are available?
Rubber pads are fixed on Acer laptops and tablets, you have to order the complete cover/panel.
Yes, I've heard this too. Apparently it's approximately £140 to replace the palm rest and the bottom base cover. This is madness, I only need 2 of the yellow rubber feet for the base, and 1 grey rubber pad for the palm rest!
The Chromebook was meant to be Military grade tested, and sold as upgradable and repairable. Unfortunately, all the marketing promises, all seem to be complete rubbish. I'm quite disappointed. 😔
Thanks for answering and I've posted images of the now missing rubber pads, and the wrote the serial number/model number below.
Acer Vero 514 Chromebook:
CBV514-1H-547A
S/N: NXKAJEK003XXXXX
I've been told by Acer customer service, that the parts aren't available for my laptop. This information has just highlighted how fragile military standard Chromebook actually is, and how 'green' and repairable it isn't!
Sorry, not ranting at you, but I do hope someone at Acer is listening. I bought the laptop as the marketing bumf promised upgradability, repairability and a military grade rating for toughness. All these are sadly untrue, including even the upgradability! 🤦♂️
Anyway. I've even started looking at spares for other makes of laptop, even if I have to cut them to fit! It's a crazy situation, especially as the laptop is barely two months old!
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No one at Acer is listening here, you are much better off to give feedback directly to them. In the mean time, you could always just use a little bead of silicone adhesive to rebuild the lost rubber bits…
This is your lower case for your Chromebook CBV514-1H-1H-547A model that you have, and as its been stated above you can compromise with other padding materials to replace what Acer has used and then put it onto the lower case pads spaces.
This is the only part number that Acer lists for your Chromebook CBV514-1H that has those pads on the lowercase of this laptop.
