Optical drive failure on macbook?

[maclikeimac]

My wife has an older macbook 13.3 and the cd drive no longer works. If you bump the laptop just a little it makes the ejecting noise, and sometimes makes the noise for no reason at all. It will not read discs at all. Where is the best place to buy a new drive, and is there any way to fix this one?!?

 

[John Doe 57]

Take it in to an authorized apple store or a computer store that will fix computers. A repair will not be cheap (Over $300 possibly).

You could of course repair it yourself. Take a look at this link:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/547655/

The 6th post by Cave Man:

You solution is to visit MacSales.com and (1) find their replacement drives ($100 to $110, depending on software bundle) and (2) watch their very nice video walk-through on replacing it.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/superdrive/MacBook_13

Prices look to range from $150 to $160.