g51 vent cover cracking

anyone have this happen to them?

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4883/img0361jc.jpg
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/9647/img0362hp.jpg

and now the one in between the ones that have fallen off =|
and yes, i know my vents are somewhat dirty lol

 

Have you been beating that poor machine?

 

haha no i just touched the vent cuz it was hotter than normal and i felt them come right off.

but now im getting the bootmgr missing error so im trying to fix that error.

 

so i called Asus and Gentech and neither seem to be any help. Asus can't even get me into the system cuz i guess their system is down. but now im down to 4 of them that have come off.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8861/img0363c.jpg

 

Extreme heat made the material fragile? Weird
Well now the fan can push more air out

 

I've had heat break plastic before. I used to have this sirius xm radio in my car and left the charger in the power outlet. It was a hot day and it heated up probably well over 100 degrees in the car, and when I came back in I unplugged it and it broke apart like it was made of candy.

 

I just don't know what I'm supposed to do. I don't know it qualifies for an rma or if I just let it continue to degrade or what

 

Same thing happened to me in the g1s (but I missed more of these plastic pieces)

 

I know G51 can get hot, but shurely Asus must have used plastic that can withstand it
How old is the laptop? Maybe it lose its heat resistance after some time. Or that you shouldnt touch the vent after an intensive session. Just let it cool of first.

I dont know. Just throwing some thoughts out there

 

I don't think it's the heat per-se. The heating of then semi-rapid cooling off of the plastic probably made it brittle. You can see an example of the brittleness in the small crack in the silver portion.

 

the laptop is only 13 months old so it's not old. i think the heat loosens the top part then the constant cooling / heating makes the bottom break, because the one directly to the right of the last one that broke off, is loose on the top but stiff on the bottom but i'm guessing its going to fall off soon