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After following Tom-W's advice, if you want a cost estimate your best option is to simply contact the Canon repair folks — they will give you an estimate when you send it in, and you can decide if it is worth that cost or not.
With any lens, it can be a tricky question to decide whether the cost of repair makes sense. For my part, unless the lens is badly worn and nearing its end of life or afflicted with a problem that is unlikely to be really fixed, it usually makes more sense to pay the cost for the repair. In a lot of cases the repaired lens will perform as good as (or occasionally better than) new.
I had a focusing issue with my 24-105 following some hard use back in perhaps 2008-2009 or so. (It had been used on a lot of backpacking trips, jammed into various kinds of packs and so forth.) I developed an issue with very soft focus on one side of the frame, to the point that it eventually became unusable. At first I considered replacing it, but I decided to send it to Canon for adjustment. It came back in excellent shape — better than it was originally, as verified by looking at previous files — and it has been solid since then.
On the other hand, this could be a sign to you "from the universe" that you should upgrade to the v.II version. ;-)
Dan
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