Brought mine a few years ago and it hasn't missed a beat. Is a good-looking unit light well balanced an easy to hold. Has been easy to start and has enough power to do most jobs I would not hesitate to recommend

Had this one for several years and never had any issues. Have to clean the plug from time to time, but its a cheap garden strimmer which has performed adequately. Cut a friends half acre plot with this once and it performed well, but I would have preferred something a little more heavier with a good wire. No complaints to date for average garden work.

I'm confused why most people seem to have issues starting this machine. My starts generally after 3 pulls from cold and will restart straight away from warm. Basically the steps I follow (possibly from the instruction book - long forgotten), go like this : 1 - Make sure switch on handle is set to "|" (On) - may sound obvious but its caught me out one or twice 2 - Push the priming bulb on the top down 8 times - you should see it fill with fuel 3 - Put choke full on (orange lever to the bottom) 4 - Squeeze the trigger to give full throttle and pull the starter cord - I tend to hold the mahine in my left hand and push it away whilst pulling with my right 5- Pull the starter until you hear the engine cough (attempt to start), on average, this takes 2 pulls. Once it's coughed, stop pulling and move the choke to the middle position. Keeping the throttle on full, pull again and she should start 6 - Once started, keep the throttle about 3/4 for say about 30 seconds to a minute and then just move the choke to the "run" position (top) Away you go and strim. As for the feed mechanism, I replaced the strimmer mine with a heaver weight twine from day 2 and never looked back. You do have to clean it out from time to time as it has a tendancy to collect mud and timmings, but other than that its not given me any trouble. Restarting from warm is basically swith it on, give it full throttle (don't touch the choke or fuel primer) and pull thr cord - generally once is enough. Hope this helps someone and stops all these useful machines being confined to the scrap heap. If you want rid, you can always send it to me :-) Why only 4 stara ? - Well basically was using it today and it flicked up a stone which went straight through the glass of my patio door :-(

Easy to use line feed/ starts easy as/ Goes like a bat out of hell. I love my new weedwhacker

I can concur to a certain extent with other Ryobi PLT2543Y 25cc Petrol reviewers as I experienced similar problems out of the box. But I then read the manual, realised that I had flooded the machine, cleaned the spark plug and emptied the excess petrol from the engine. Then, following the instructions exactly, and I mean exactly, the machine started first time. Did two hours of work without problems, starting twice from hot also without a problem during that time. At the price I paid in Ireland (75 euro), I am more than happy with the results. Yes, there are niggles (no strap!) but it is very good value for money. If I want something to be absolutely perfect, I can pay up top 300 euro for it and then I expect it to be perfect. With the expand it options, I think this is a good buy.