Flymo Garden Vac - XLB 250 Review

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Flymo Garden Vac - XLB 250
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A Schnauzer's Review of Flymo Garden Vac - XLB 250

3rd Apr 2009

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    0.5 stars
Good Points

Until it ceased to operate it was ok.


Bad Points

After less than 1 years use the authorised service dealer has informed me that the piston and ring are welded together and he indicated that the mixture was correct. He's never seen anything like it before. Cost to repair is almost the same as a new unit.


General Comments

The Flymo Garden Vac - XLB 250 unit was obviously designed as a blower. I appreciate it is a low cost unit. It was easy enough to start providing the instructions were adhered to. But I will not be replacing it with another.

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  • pleasant Rank: Lieutenant on 5th Apr 2009

    If a piston and bore are, as you say- welded together then by that evidence alone it is a symptom of incorrect fuel/oil mixture and not a manufacturing fault.

    How a so-called expert can state it isn't anything other than under oiling defied belief.

  • A Schnauzer Rank: Lance Corporal on 6th Apr 2009

    I like you would be inclined towards a similar conclusion, but like the service mechanic I'm aware of the possible effect of incorrect mixture. I mixed the fuel and tended to err in favour of too much oil. That's why I added the mechanic's comments. He didn't indicate that the bore was badly damaged and would have re-built the engine if I'd paid for it. I never saw the dismantled engine they phoned me with the estimate. I have written to Flymo asking for their comments.