18-03-2014, 04:00 PM
I've gone RIGHT off Karcher recently... I've seen a load of recent ones (read last 5 years..) that have broken very quickly, they used to be very good and everyone recommended them, but we've had an Alto and a Nilfisk (Nilfisk is Alto now...) the Alto we had for probably 12 years, at least, I remember my dad buying it when I was very young, that only died because it got done in by frost because it was left with water in... He got a Nilfisk E140 probably 3 or 4 years ago and it's still going fine now, all we've had to do in that time with both is replace the o-rings where the HP hose clips into the machine - other than that, never been a problem.