Customer Reviews

Wii Lens Cleaning Kit

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After a year and a half w/o any problems with my Wii console, I started getting "An error has occurred. Press the Eject button and remove the disc..." errors. These got more and more frequent until I was getting them a couple times an hour. (This usually happened while I was playing Mario Kart Wii online, so I was losing hundreds of VR points each time I got the error!) There was no visible damage to the game disc and cleaning the disc did not help. I was pretty much ready to either send in the Wii console for repairs or else buy a new Wii console when I came across this Wii Lens Cleaning Kit while searching online.

After using the cleaning kit, I have not gotten a single "Press the Eject button and remove the disc..." error. It's been about a month and half so far with no errors.

The cleaning kit is pretty simple. It consists of a plastic paddle with an attached cleaning pad. You put 2-3 drops of the supplied cleaning fluid on the pad, then insert the paddle into the Wii's disc slot. You wiggle the handle 10-20 times to clean the lens. Press the Eject button to remove the paddle, and you're done. The kit comes with an 8ml bottle of cleaning fluid and 5 adhesive replacement pads for when the current pad gets too dirty to use again.

Spending $10 on a cleaning kit was definitely better than sending in the Wii for repairs or buying a new Wii.

As my 11 year old son came in the living room a week ago, face falling to the floor, he declares that the Wii is "broken". He just received a new game for Christmas and has been playing it happily since. I am usually pretty good at troubleshooting things so after a few mintues I see that it's a disc read error. The Wii is not reading any of our discs. Fortunately, with some patience I can get the Wii to recognize the disc after inserting and ejecting it multiple times, but obviously, this will not do. ( Eleven year olds do not have the patience to perform this action as needed, and I don't have the time to do this on a regular basis)

On Nintendo's site they offer up the advice of cleaning the lens on the Wii before offering to generously set up a pick up to fix your Wii for a small fortune (that as a single mom I can't fork out). In Nintendo's style they say that the only lens cleaning kit you can use is the one they make because, like all other products that are not Nintendo, they will ruin the Wii, destroy your lawn, and end the world (I have an Energizer Wii remote charger that works....please don't tell them). However, in this case....They are correct. And don't let anyone tell you different.

I thought that like any other lens on any other machine you should be able to just clean it. So did the folks at 3 of the stores I went to that did not carry the Nintendo Lens Cleaning Kit. Use anything they said. You can't. Leave it to Nintendo to come up with something so bizarre looking that no one on the planet would even bother duplicating it for bootleg purposes. Fortunately, it's cheap.

AND IT WORKS!!! It's weird to use. And I really thought it was going to be some gimmick before I shipped off the hard drive, but behold.......The discs are being read, the boy is happy, and Mom is free to write this review and get laundry done and complain that he's playing Nintendo too much.

It is probably not the fix for every disc read error that comes over a Wii players screen, but it DEFINITELY worth trying before you ship the Wii out for repairs. Gunk does build up in there (No smoking in the house but we do have one dog)....and with more then one cleaning pad, you get many passes at fixing the issue. And it makes you a superhero, if for that one moment before your child's eyes glaze over to the next Wii game.

Our Wii was giving a read error on any disc we tried, both Wii and Gamecube discs. This kit got us back up and running 100%. Both Wii and Gamecube games work perfectly again. Sure beats sending it back for repairs, especially since it's out of warranty. Definitely recommended.

After reading some of the reviews for the lens cleaning kit I was hopeful that using it would fix our Wii which is not reading discs. After following the instructions, we tried a few games to see if the Wii would work but instead of telling us it could not read the disc it now says system error. So I guess we will have to get our Wii repaired or get a new one. So, if you order this in hopes of fixing the read disc error, be prepared that it might not!

Our Wii had stopped loading discs (they went in physically OK, but the system did not recognize them). I was freaking that I would have to pay Nintendo service fees to have the drive replaced. Then I had the idea to use a compressed air cleaner to blow out the disc slot. That helped, but we still had trouble getting discs to load. So I searched Amazon for Wii lens cleaners, and I found this one with good reviews, so I took the risk, even though I had not had good luck with CD lens cleaners before. I tried it out. It was easy to use - it worked just like the instructions said, and, now, all our discs load right away. If, all of a sudden, your Wii discs stop loading, I highly recommend this product. Also, it looks like we should get a lot of cleanings with the included supplies (note that you do not have to change the cleaning pad after each cleaning, just when it appears dirty).

Wii Lens Cleaning Kit After using it just twice it is a very easy tool to use for removing residue off the lens. After the first use we had alot of dirt/film on the lens. After the second use there was some residue so to me that means the cleaning kit is working.

Bought this to keep our Wii console in good running condition.Easy to use and does a good job. A good Wii product.

The previous posts helped me out quite a bit. After 3 years of good performance, we suddenly were getting "error - cannot read disc..." We don't smoke and are good about changing the furnace filters every 3 months, but still we had issues - with every disc we tried. I bought the cleaning kit and PAY ATTENTION it did work when I did the following:

Follow the directions. Immediately after inserting the cleaning disk plate, you will want to move it back and forth as it suggests, but I was not able to clean the lens as needed in 3 tries. The last time I did it, I moved the disc back and forth, but tilted it toward the optical sensor to make sure I engaged the pad on the eye of the reader. After I did this, I could notice some dirt on the cleaning pad and what do you know.... the Wii is working famously now!

This kit actually did not fix my Wii, but that was because my drive was beyond help. But Nintendo discounted my repair by the price of the kit when they learned I had purchased it. So it is a SAFE purchase.

Works excellent. Cleaned out all of the gunk the system had, and now its working good again.