So you’ve just got your iPod back from the repair company, complete with it’s replacement battery. Excellent!

But is all as you would expect? For a start, is the battery they have put onto your iPod really brand new? Well you’d like to think so wouldn’t you. On the whole most iPod replacement batteries are actually brand new. For hard drives and other components however, it’s a very different story.

Most iPod repair centres use new parts in all their repairs. After all, they can be bought very cheaply now from the far east. iPod hard drives however, still remain very expensive.

Because of this there are quite a few iPod repair companies around who will recycle parts from a broken iPod and fit them as ‘new’ into your beloved iPod Classic or Mini. They find it cheaper to buy an iPod with a broken screen and take the hard drive from it. This is then fitted into your iPod as a ‘new’ hard drive. It’s hard to detect unless you know how to open an iPod and how to tell the difference.

So it pays to check with the iPod repair company you are thinking of using, that they fit brand new parts and will guarantee them against failure for 12 months. Get them to confirm via email the all parts they use in their iPod repair are new. Do this and you’re covered if ever it turns out later that they used recycled parts.