“I have just installed my new cushions and I’m so excited!
Installation was a BREEZE. Be careful when detaching the old cushions because you may scratch the headset paint with the knife. I almost did that. 😬
Insert the knife very carefully, the more “length” you slide in, the easier and gentler it’ll be to pop up the cushion. Inserting just the tip of the knife requires more force/pressure to lift the cushion and unglue it, and this is how you’ll scratch the sides of your headset.
Make sure you remove the “metal” piece (in my pics it’s the black ring on the old cushions). Otherwise your new cushions will not be placed properly and will look separated from the headset (thanks to another review I was aware of this!).
Remove ALL the glue that’s there. If it’s still sticky, it needs to be cleaned. The alcohol wipe wasn’t enough for removing it, but it definitely helped with the small pieces of glue. For the big ones like on one of the photos, simply lift one end of the glue strip and peel it all off at once (knife helps to lift the ends of the glue!).
Wipe it off again. Attaching the cushions is easy! Right side is different than the left; it has an indentation where you insert the cable into the headset - pretty easy to see it. There are pins on the headset, they’ll go into the holes on the cushions. Play with it a bit before doing it for real, so you make sure which holes are the correct ones (not all will be used).
GENTLY lift the sticker backing with the tip of a knife (very gently... I almost ruined it!) and align the pins with the holes, put pressure all around and voilà! 👌🏻 It’s REALLY easy. The instructions are very clear.
It looks really good! I don’t know how long it’ll last, but I will update that whenever I know.”
“Worked like a charm for my HP Omen 15 ax 250wm.
So for those of you worried/wondering whether this fan will be able to fit in your laptop, go to HP part surfer and type in your laptop and check if the fan in your laptop is L18458-001. This is a pretty common part and this product fit my laptop even though it wasn’t officially listed on as the supported model. With compatibility out of the way, let’s talk about the product itself.
I personally bought this fan because the stock one on my omen started to rattle like the video I posted(that’s before the replacement). Knowing there certainly was an issue with one of the fans(you can figure this out by turning the laptop off, carefully opening the back and seeing whether the rattling starts/stops when a fan runs/stops or try unplugging one of them). So all I had to do was just replace the faulty fan when it arrived. The fan itself is high quality. Like one of the other customer wrote on their review, it certainly feels better than the other cheap fans out there(this costs similar to the replacement fan you could order off the hp website but I did not have faith in the part that broke on 6 months of regular usage so i decided to go with this) and felt sturdier than the stock fan. So now it works like a charm and is quite like its new.
As for the thermal paste they mentioned, don’t expect much. They are branded as “GD66” and presumably chinese make and just a very cheap thermal. But hey it’s a nice gesture.
Overall, it was a lifesaver for me because as a poor college student, I did not have the money to take this in for a repair and my warranty expired two months ago so I had to figure all this out and it turned out to be great. If you are sure about what’s broken, just buy yourself a tool kit, parts and fix it yourself. As long as you take your time, research, and don’t put too much force into it, you can’t go wrong.”
