Performance Power Cordless Drill 18v

My drill is fine but the batteries (I have two) have failed. They hold a charge for about five minutes. B&Q don't sell spares, so I'll have to ditch a perfectly good drill. This is just not good enough and B&Q should be hanging their environmental heads in shame. No more PP tools for me - ever!

Bought one of these as the one I had bought nine years ago finally gave up the ghost. Seemed cheap at £38 but I soon found out why: The chuck locked up after a few weeks use and when I tried to unlock it with a pair of grips the plastic collar with no metal backing just came apart. Conclusion: They have tried to make it too cheap and it is not as robust as the model they were selling a few years ago. I have now bought an Einhill instead. NB don't bother with Black & Decker they have made the same mistake; shame really because in the past they made a really solid mains drill and I still have one.

Forgot to remove the chuck when using hammer action and so need a new chuck, but from the messages belwo there don't appear to be any spares in which case this has been a waste of money.

If there were spares it would be a 5 star product

My drill was working fine until it fell off my roof so if anyone wants 2 batteries and a charger let me know. Good performance, good batteries life and brillant quick charge capability

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Cheap drill which performs very well considering the price. Batteries don't hold charge anymore but this happens to all Ni-Cd batteries, even from the big name brands. At least this drill is cheap to buy and therefore replace. Buying a big name brand drill costs more money initially and their batteries are even more ridiculously priced (I should know, I used to work for one of them). This means you end up throwing it out and buying a whole new drill just the same, except it costs a whole lot more money.

An amazing find really, with cheap drills I guess it's pot luck, but the drill I have is brilliant, it has out performed much more expensive drills in the past. Put it this way, the guy who fitted my kitchen used my drill after he used it once as it was better than his which cost 5 times as much!!

I might have been lucky with mine as I suppose the build quality on each drill varies at this price. Unfortunately, after 10 years of use, my charger has died, so I'm on the hunt for a replacement one if I can, as I'm not sure I'll get as good a drill as this one on my limited budget.

I would stay away from the Performance stuff. I had problems with one product (tile cutter) and when I phoned the help line they had no knowledge of the item. I had to photgraph the box and label and email it to them to prove it was one of their products. Perhaps the tile cutter is not the same as a drill, but the spares issue is the same.

The drill is still working fine but the battery is now life expired. No interest from B&Q in supplying a new battery or spares though.

The drill works perfectly, but like many here I found the batteries and charger fail, and B & Q's policy is not to hold spares. They regard these items as disposable. I think this is a black mark to B & Q, and I will certainly keep this in mind when buying my next drill.

If you enter the charger number into ebay, a company will supply you with a new charger, but no power supply.

I'd have liked to know just how long B & Q support these products from a spares point of view. Its not such a bargain when they become obsolete after a few years.

good money down the DRAIN. two batterys plus charger no good..........