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I bought this MBP second hand with an issue, which IMO is a cooked T-CON Board. It was bought in January of 2020, so the 1 year warranty is no more, but I am in Germany so we have a 2 year consumer protection law, this states: the seller has to warrant the product not having any manufacturing defects, but 6 months after the purchase it is the consumers duty to prove, that the defect was present at the purchase. The MBP has never been opened, shouldn’t have liquid damage and doesn’t have any other issues I am aware of. Can I “easily“ prove that due to the T-CON board sitting between the heatsinks, which apple only cools once the sensors reach “80+C“, it , in normal use, will overheat and get damaged? Alternativly can I prove that I just never used it wrong? Or can I get just the T-CON board replaced?Simon
The T-CON board is part of the display assembly and not replaceable on its own (not an available part). As to prove the cause thats tricky! While we know and have seen lots of people hitting this issue, it would be hard to prove as either yours or Apples failure. Mostly I blame bad design as Intels CPU’s just run to hot from the limited cooling this system has. I think you shouldn’t have any difficulty getting your system repaired.
