It's annoying, as I hear great things about their products.
I've not been amazingly impressed with the Makita lith ion stuff I have. On the whole it's been a bit crap.
The combi/impact driver started spewing grey smoke on the day I bought it, when drilling a 20mm whole through timber with a flat bit. Not exactly hard work. Also changing modes is very tricky, the slide button is stiff, and in impact mode, driving screws it gets very hot if used for a prolonged time, like screwing down a bathroom ply floor.
Then I bought the drill driver (the beast one, with the metal chuck) and that crunches if you tighten the chuck in gear three. (Makita know about this, and said just change it to gear 1 when doing this - WHAT!?). My old Makita could be tightened in gear 2, so why can't this one?
Then I bought the jigsaw, no real complaints about this, quite a good tool, and I've just bought the 18V SDS.
I have other Makita kit, but 240V their..... skill saw, another jig saw, small angle grinder, and angle drill. So a fair bit of their kit....none of it is as well made as it was 10 years ago. Yeah the batteries last a long time on their cordless stuff but they also fail very often, and are mega bucks.
I've not been amazingly impressed with the Makita lith ion stuff I have. On the whole it's been a bit crap.
The combi/impact driver started spewing grey smoke on the day I bought it, when drilling a 20mm whole through timber with a flat bit. Not exactly hard work. Also changing modes is very tricky, the slide button is stiff, and in impact mode, driving screws it gets very hot if used for a prolonged time, like screwing down a bathroom ply floor.
Then I bought the drill driver (the beast one, with the metal chuck) and that crunches if you tighten the chuck in gear three. (Makita know about this, and said just change it to gear 1 when doing this - WHAT!?). My old Makita could be tightened in gear 2, so why can't this one?
Then I bought the jigsaw, no real complaints about this, quite a good tool, and I've just bought the 18V SDS.
I have other Makita kit, but 240V their..... skill saw, another jig saw, small angle grinder, and angle drill. So a fair bit of their kit....none of it is as well made as it was 10 years ago. Yeah the batteries last a long time on their cordless stuff but they also fail very often, and are mega bucks.