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 Large piece of JUNK !!! June 29, 2008
mower hunter (Casper, WY)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I would have shown zero stars but that wasn't a choice. Believe all the bad reviews that you find on this mower, they are not exaggerated. This mower is very cheaply made. The wheels feel like they are going to fall off the mower before you get it out of the box. When you try to charge it, the "charge" select position does not want to stay in place, the dial keeps trying to slip back into the "mow" position.
I used the mower 2 times. It did a good job cutting the grass, and amazingly the wheels stayed on. The 3rd time I charged the Remington PowerMower it tried to burn to the ground. When I plugged it in to a GFCI receptacle it tripped the GFCI. I then plugged it into a dedicated 20A non-GFCI protected receptacle. There was a loud "POP" and then smoke came fron the Remington PowerMower.
Save your money, save your time...do not but this large piece fo JUNK.
PS...returned the Remington PowerMower to the retailer and purchased a American Lawn Mower "Eathwise" cordless mower fo $50.00 less. So far it appears to be a good investment.
Looks beautiful but doesn't work July 10, 2008
Illinois Daughter
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Our lawn mower arrived this afternoon. It looks beatiful and was very easy to set up. However, the flimsy plastic knob won't stay in position to charge the battery and it won't run with the cord. So we are up the creek. We've got ourselves an expensive brick sitting in the garage and grass that is getting longer by the minute.
 Okay mower, but the "cons" outweigh the "pros" May 18, 2008
David T. Brookes
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I assembled the mower in about 10 minutes, charged up the battery overnight and took it out for a spin in cordless/battery mode. My yard is about 1/5 of an acre, but it's not easy to mow quickly. And this mower is only 17 inches wide, so it takes A LOT of passes. But it got through the whole lawn with one charge. About 2/3 of the way through the battery started getting a little tired, but the mower still kept plugging away, I just had to slow down a little. I was impressed.
Then I cleaned the mower thoroughly, dismantled it, and put it back into its box and returned it to the store I bought it from. Why? (And here we come to the crux of why I gave this mower two stars.) Other than the superb battery, there is not much good I can say about this mower.
1) The mower is constructed out of flimsy plastic. It really doesn't feel sturdy at all.
2) It's only 17 inches wide. After using a 19 inch B&D lawnhog, I REALLY noticed the missing two inches. It takes a lot of back and forth to get the lawn mowed.
3) The circuit board was playing up. It worked fine in battery mode, but in plugged in mode, it seemed like it was trying to charge the battery at the same time as it was mowing (noticeable because of the lack of power when plugged in), and "boost" mode did not work at all. Sure, I can just return the mower and get another, but a lot of other reviewers have talked about electronic problems. Definitely another "con" against this mower.
4) The mower tended to get bogged down when using the mulching function with the battery (so basically you need to be plugged in if you want to mulch - assuming the electronics are working properly) and the bagging function really didn't work very well either. The chute kept on getting blocked and so the mower went back to mulching (and getting bogged down). I had to stop and clear it out every now and then. The bagging chute is simply badly designed.
5) The bag attachment is not well designed either. It worked okay, but not too impressed. Bag tended to drag on the ground a bit once it filled up. Sometimes the bag would detach if I didn't put it back on carefully.
6) There was a lot of play in the wheels. Sometimes they would rub against the side of the plastic housing of the mower.
After I had finished mowing my lawn, I added up all these cons and thought about it for a while. I realized I had just bought myself a rather small, flimsy, poorly constructed electric lawn mower with a super-duper (lead-acid) battery in it, for roughly double the price of other electric mowers that are larger, sturdier and better built, but don't have a battery. (Please bear in mind too, a lead-acid battery is a 100+ year-old technology.) Trust me, being free of that cord was intoxicating for a while. But at the end of the day, I don't think the extra money is worth it. If you're rich and don't care about $200 extra, then go ahead and buy this mower. This mower does what it was made to do: Mow a small lawn without being plugged in. But that's about all it has going for it. For me, an extra $200 needs to buy me more than a lead-acid battery.
Defective much? May 30, 2008
DiverDown (Dublin, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Straight out I was disappointed that when I spent $400 on a lawnmower they did not include a power cord. It worked well at first, but seemed to quickly bog down. It doesn't move the clippings away from the blade, so the blade clogs. After clearing an obstruction, the mower would restart. "piece of junk" is about the best I could call this one...
Faulty Engineering Makes for Bad Choice in Lawn Mowers June 10, 2008
Dremel (Columbia, MO)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Remington PowerMower 17-Inch 60-Volt Cordless/Corded Electric Combination Lawn Mower #MPS6017A
I read all of the reviews on this specialty lawn mower and decided that the good canceled out the bad, so I ordered it. I put it together with usual aggravation, but doable. I plugged it up to charge overnight thinking that the charge light might come on only when fully charged, but that is not correct. I called Remington customer service the next morning and they, at the time, inexplicably told me that the plastic control knob for the switch was the the problem, that I had the old design, and that they would send me out a new switch right away. In the meantime, I was told to put the mower on charge and jamb the switch by sticking a business card in-between the knob and its housing to prevent the switch from slipping off the charge position. Lastly, I was told that replacement of the switch control knob would be "easy." I'll start there. It was not "easy"--it was difficult. One of the first instructions was, "remove height control knob." That turned out to be impossible as the one on mine appeared to have been glued on. I worked around that, and got the housing off. I took the old control knob off and I examined how the control worked. There were several switches that engaged when pressed, and disengaged when the pressure was released. As best as I could tell, one switch was for turning the mower into charge and/or run position; and the other was to turn on the mower's "turbo" or fast position. In fact, several of the descriptions on the switch, such as running without charging and running on electric cord were only redundant, non-functioning descriptions written on the control (no action was taken on the two switches in those positions), but actually there were two functioning "on" switches, one for charge/run on battery mode; and the other was "turbo" A/C mode. The shocking part was that the only thing that held these switches in active "on" position was the friction between the plastic control knob and the plastic housing covering the control knob. After replacing the switch knob, which looked exactly like the one that the original one (and had the same part number stamped on it), I reassembled the mower. That was the really difficult part. The mower's housing is a large piece of molded plastic, and it flexes as it is set in place. It is awkward to set it over the places where the screws go, and it is difficult to align the screw openings of the two pieces, that is, the housing with the base. That is made more difficult by the fact that the height control is a whole unit spring loaded device that must lift the weight of the mower, and you have to jiggle the housing in place over the height control lever into one of the middle notches in the plastic housing, and concurrently, you have to be sure to get the electric cords in their proper positions, AND you have to get the housing to engage over the terminals for the large battery without bending them, and you essentially have to do all of those things at the correct angle at once. Remember, the Remington technical assistance representative had told me that would be easy! In any regard, after the knob was replaced and the mower reassembled, I discovered that with the new knob in place it would not hold either of the switches in their respective active positions. Turning the plastic knob resulted in the knob returning to the original position like turning and releasing a spring controlled egg timer. So I took the whole thing apart a second time to reinstall the original knob, and I was back to square one, except this time the charge/run mode wouldn't work. I was able to charge it overnight, but it would no longer run off battery. It would growl as if it were starting to engage, and then the blade would start and slowly stop moving. Needless to say, tonight I packaged up the mower and it is being returned at Amazon expense. Boxing up the mower isn't easy, and I don't recommend it. On the plus side, when the mower runs, it mulches great, and the electric cord option works fantastically...if it works. In my opinion, this is a great mower ruined by a cheesy control switch poorly engineered by design and by production.
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