Cheapest I've ever seen a pressure washer, looks nasty but for $25 who's complaining?
1600 PSI Pressure Washer $25 @ Repco
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Yeah, I 'somewhat agree' too. I've bought many so-called 'high quality' products and have paid dearly for them just to have them fail a year or two later but I've also bought a lot of absolute bargain basement stuff I never thought would last and it just wont die!
I completely agree with your justification but I consider it a little foolish (harsh word I know, sorry) to blindly assume that cost is relative to quality/longevity these days. 20+ years ago this was absolutely the case however our hard working friends in China, Korea, Malaysia and in Eastern Europe have come so far and can produce very high quality products now. Sure, there will always be 'junk' but you just wont know until you've purchased it and have used it yourself.
One simple example… I've been a massive Toyota fan all my life (super conservative & usually ugly as sin but just down to earth good quality products) and used to scoff at all the crap a lot of others were producing but after having a few friends and family buy Hyundais & Kias over the last 5 years I've gotta say I think my current Corolla will be my last Toyota.
Make your next holiday a South Korea trip. My jaw drop seeing how redundant they are, they have national pride when it comes to car ownership. And how well they work in -16C snow and ice conditions. Hyundai has come a long way. But the sister company KIA on the other hand…
South Koreans are redundant because they buy South Korean cars?
I worked in electronic design and repair for 7 years.
I eventually moved to specialise in German audio visual technologies, only for the "quality" manufacturers to go belly up and on sell to china and the likes.
My favourite of all was blaupunkt! "The blue dot" replaced by a china red dot and ending up as just another blip dot on a production line computer..This is todays world. I changed industries as only 2 other people when i graduated Aus wide passed the test to become design engineers.
Guy 1, eventually became an electrician
Girl 2, became redundant electrical systems designer for Holden.
Me, became that guy who bought two pressure washers i can fix myself if they (profanity) up!.Do yourself a favour and when you buy something thats cheap and it goes foobar.
Fix it.
Or it goes into the earth and 1 million years from now we dig it up and sell it to that production country to sell to our grandkids for $25 because we are to rich and lazy to fix ourselves or pay some local to fix it.
FWIW, I bought the last one from the Grange Road (SA) store and completely cleaned the 10 year old muck off our back yard pavers. It worked much better than I was expecting and for a lot cheaper than hiring one or paying someone to do it. Matters not now if it stops working as I managed to do the job I needed it for.
Bravo! Good to hear :)
Grabbed one from the Morley store this morning. They had about a dozen left on display as at 8.30am.
I have a balcony that really needs cleaning. If anyone buys this, I'll loan my spot for a trial? :) hehe
Sold out in the bell street store. :(
I got one and did about 50m2 of paving..
went ok, did the job and didnt die.
fittings a bit to be desired as they leak water (hose into triggger) but overall cant complain for 25
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While I somewaht agree I would suggest that price and lifespan are not automatically connected. Read "planned obsolescence".
EG - My 1995 fridge wont die and I hope it never does. It was probably the very last of the good quality Aussie made units designed for a long life and repairable. My sister is onto her fourth expensive brand name unit in the same time period.