Ryobi RACPWS7

I've found other Ryobi products to be good, well made and reliable - a batterystrimmer and 2nd hand circular saw and drill have performed brilliantly. So I bought a Ryobi water pressure cleaner, confidently expecting a well made item with reliable performance. It’s already been returned to Bunnings with anger and regret. Regret? Because it has a good pressure and cleaning ability. Anger? 1. The wheels start wobbling and eventually fall off. They are snap on items - like most of it. I needed to move it up and down a sloped drive and the stupidly designed plastic wheels juddered as soon as they moved along, then started wobbled, and then fell off. The split axle were seen to be distorted. It's a pathetic design. 2. The handle has to be pulled up to wheel it around - which is good. But there’s no provision for keeping it locked down so there’s no way of lifting it easily. 3. There was no way the small diameter drum would take the pressure hose coiled around it when not in use. This just got in the way and was detached. 4. The pressure hose is supposed to be detached by a plastic trigger on the body and on the wand. On day two one end locked solid. On day 4 the other end locked solid. Impossible to detach without breaking the plastic trigger 5. The plastic clip on holders are cheap and nasty and come off. 6. The fan jet attachment, probably the more used of the two jet nozzles, is made of plastic and incredible small. It’s just waiting to be lost. Why the difference in size between it and the cone jet which is a good substantial size? The fan jet has a clip on attachment to the pressure hose, just waiting to get knocked off and lost. 7. The attachment for the water hose is made of plastic. Really? This is possibly the connection subject to most force. I've never seen another make where this is not metal 8. I couldn't find a way to post this review on the Ryobi site, full of suspiciously admiring comments, which frankly don’t reflect the reality of using this item.

This product has a very good cleaning pressure but its housing is a disaster. Stopping to push a wheel back on every 10 minutes, not being able to use the reel for storing the pressure hose then not being able to detach it at all just made the whole exercise of pressure washing the outside of my property a nightmare, a pity as the actual water pressure was very good.