
If needed, bend the guides so they do NOT touch the disc when it is spinning. With the cover off, try loading a game disc. Put a 5mm piece of heat shrink tubing over each of them if the white plastic clips are broken or missing. Gently bend them back towards the edge of the disc. Often one or both of these clips will be missing or broken.Īlso the metal guides are sometimes bent outward, almost as if you had forced a disc out and it bent them. Both should have white plastic clips about 4 by 3 mm to keep them from scratching the edge of the game disc. Look carefully at the two metal guides which pull the full size disc into the Wii.

Gently work the mechanical disc loading levers - gently - do not force anything.


If it works with a GameCube disc then the problem is easy to fix if you like tinkering and have a Triwing screwdriver.įollow the iFixit guides for taking the Wii apart. Will your Wii read or play GameCube discs?īorrow a GameCube disc from a pal, or buy a cheap one at a game store or an online auction. Before you go spending money please check this:
