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The first unit I received had an issue with the brushes not spinning. I checked everything out the manual said to (verified strong suction, clean filters, etc.) but no dice. Fortunately, Amazon makes exchanges painless and doesn’t stick you with the return shipping charge which would have been hefty on this item.
The replacement unit arrived a few days later. I put it together, turned it on, and hooray this time the brushes were spinning! Then we tried actually using it and found barely any cleaning solution was coming out. If I took off the handle and pushed the lever on the main unit in manually, fluid came out just fine so there seemed to be something wrong with the button on the handle. The rod that operates the lever to release the cleaning fluid worked fine when I operated the button, but as soon as I put any pressure onto the rod it would push back up into the handle. Since it takes a fair amount of pressure to get fluid flowing, this was the problem. Fortunately, this was a pretty easy DIY fix by opening up the handle and shoring up the other end of the rod with some duct tape.
At this point, I finally had a fully functioning unit. It does a great job picking up old stains and the carpet felt nice and soft afterward. The brushes do a good job and make plenty of contact with the carpet. The method suggested in the manual of doing a wet stroke back, a wet stroke forward, and then two dry stores back and forwards works well but chews up the fluid quickly. I found just keeping it simple and doing a wet stroke back and then a dry stroke forward worked equally well in most cases and lets your fluid last twice as long.
One minor issue I’ve found is that, even if you fill the clean water tank exactly to the “fill” line, the dirty water tank shutoff still activates when you still have a cup or so of fluid in the clean water tank. This isn’t a big deal but does mean you have to make two trips to empty the dirty water container to completely use up yo
12 pk Girls Sports
I recently purchased the Kindle (2nd generation). I loved the weight and feel of it. I also like the 3G coverage and it’s ability to read text to you in enabled books (the diction is far from perfect, but still a VERY nice feature).
However, I experienced two problems:
1) Two of the three books I purchased included embedded tables in which the font was too small for me to read – even when I changed the overall font size. With one book, I was able to return it, in the other, I borrowed a hard copy of the book from a colleague(which kinda defeats the purpose).
2) When I shut down the Kindle, I ended up with grey lines on the screen where text had been. I’d reboot the unit and they would go away, only to come back the very next time I used it.
When I first called customer service about this, I was asked if I’d dropped the unit (I hadn’t). I was also informed that the problem would probably get worse over time. So, Amazon sent a replacement Kindle — and that replacement did the EXACT same thing.
Amazon’s customer support folks are amazing and they offered to send a 3rd Kindle, but I just don’t see the point. Based upon the last two they sent, my best prediction is that the same thing will happen again – so I just reluctantly sent my Kindle back for a refund.
I really hope Amazon has taken care of this problem in their latest version. If so, I would definely consider purchasing that next generation.
As it is, I now have two Kindle books and two Audible audiobooks and I’m stuck with accessing them using my laptop — again, completely defeating the purpose of why I purchased a Kindle.
So, overall:
Customer service – 5 Stars
Lightness and feel of the product – 5 Starts
Kindle Performance – 1 Star.
Hope for the next generation version ???
Good. Took a while to assemble (if you’re not all that handy) but still pretty cool – our daughter loved it!