>>379021842
I have self repaired two controllers now. Both work okay. One of them doesn't track as well as it used to (I broke some pins inside lmao) and the thumbstick click doesn't work (not sure why...). The other one I slightly tore a ribbon cable putting it back together and the finger tracking of the middle finger is broken now. Else than that it works fine.

I don't recommend it to be honest, my strategy was to wait until the drift was so bad the controller was actually unusable, and then try for a repair after buying a new one.

My recommendation:
1.Try RMAing anyway (valve is pretty kind especially with thumbsticks)
2. Buy a new one
3. keep old one as backup for games that don't need a thumbstick, or that are comfortable enough with thumbstick remapped to touchpad.