Stihl FS38 Strimmer Reviews

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Stihl FS38 Strimmer
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Lightweight grass trimmer for tidying your garden edges. Along walls, under trees or even your lawn borders, its ideal for putting the finishing touches to your garden. Comes standard with AutoCut head and can also fit a PolyCut head for thinning work and larger weeds.
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“Less than two year service”

★★☆☆☆

written by stfree on 22/05/2013

I bought the FS38 a bit over a year ago. Usage is only once a week for a few hours. It worked fine for the frist year. Then the string trimmer hub/housing wore out. Replaced that for $30. Three weeks into the new season, the motor refused to run more than 30-40 seconds and developed no power. The Stihl service shop where I bought it says the the carb needs to be replaced at a cost of $124.00. A check valve is said to be bad inside the carb but no service parts are offered for those bits. I'm on my way to buy a cheap replacement for about the cost of the two (would be) service charges. Given the service requirements of the Stihl, I can buy one of the cheap trimmers each year and come our ahead. I will sell the Stihl on Craig's List for junk parts.

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“Poor quality”

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written by on 25/05/2012

I've had the FS38 for 4 years now and I only use it for approx. 2 hs/year. Allways a bit tricky to start but Ok power for small jobs once it has started. The problem is that it that some components are of inferior quality. E.g the ignition coil gave up. Will cost me 50 euros for a new one. Not sure if I'll threw good money after bad. I'm really disapointed with this trimmer. I have two other Stihl trimmers one top end model (for bushwacking) an one mid range both are great machines but the FS38 is just to unreliable.

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Asked by wimmeraboy on 7th January 2020 Report this content
Who else is having trouble with their FS 38 Strimmer with an AutoCut C6-2 head? When the trimmer line gets to about 70mm in length on either side, suddenly one side of the line disappears and then the head comes off again. The line keeps getting caught in the top chamber which then requires me to pull the head apart and rethread the line. The machine is not 2 months old and I have only used it three times. Not happy with the C 6-2 head! Not fit for purpose. Any solution?

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Asked by Golf14 on 2nd January 2014 Report this content
I took the cable out of the shaft to re grease it and I now cannot get it back into the front square hole. Does anyone know how this is done?

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Report this content AFKevin Written on: 19/09/2014
you should not take the shaft out to re grease this machine all stihl trimmers come with a limited lifetime warranty on their drive shafts. you just revoked your warranty by doing so. run it until the shaft goes out(should be years upon years) and then take it back to the shop and have them replace it for free.
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