Bosch Rotak 40 Electric Rotary Lawn Mower

After 18 mths in use with due care on small lawn motor smoked and died. worst still no parts available brushes or brush holder.loking back on the reviews the older rotak40 was more reliable. I purchased anew washing this week and I wait with baited breath fot IT to give trouble, will never buy Bosch again even tho'my kitchen is all bosch Fuming John

Motor burned ou after two years. Waste of time cannot replace motor ecomonically

This is a reasonably good lawnmower, but watch out ! They have some variants with a power supply cable that is hard wired. This is different from the normal arrangement with electric mowers, where the cable has a plug for the electric socket at one end and a plug for the lawnmower at the other.

The result is dramatic. If you damage the power cable (which is not a particularly unusual accident) your mower is junk. There is no way to replace the cable.

1 season of grass cutting and it goes out with a puff of smoke.. expensive rubbish

Like so many others I can only add my experience, used very little just over 2 years old, half of it spent in my beautiful Log Cabin it looks like new but now the motor is burnt out!

I cannot find the words to describe how disappointed I am with this product and more so the brand, Bosch.

When I purchased it was A highly rated and relatively new model so it just goes to show it pays to go with something slightly older with a decent track record! hopefully a proven model.

This is landfill of the worse kind, I would never purchase another Bosch product again be it Fridge, Dishwasher etc how a leading manufacturer can associate itself with such a low quality product beggars belief.

Have only just bought this. Managed to mow enough of the lawn to half-fill the grassbox - then the damn thing died.... taking it back to Argos this afternoon and going for a different make. Complete waste of time and money - I bought it because I thought Bosch was a reliable make, but I'm obviously not the only one to be disappointed.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT , BOUGHT TWO OF THESES MOWERS AND ONLY GOT FIVE USES OUT OF IT ,COMPLETE WASTE OF GOOD MONEY WILL NEVER BUY THAT PRODUCT AGAIN

My mower has hardly done one season and the over-run brake has siezed up. i.e. the belt will slip and start to smoke.

I knew straight away what the problem was because I have had the same with the larger Flymos.

Quickest way to rectify was to remove the friction discs.

I used a Dremel tool to cut them away - no point in trying to remove the grooved pulley from the shaft as the two have plainly siezed together.

So much for safety featurers! The flippin things have a deadmans handle which is something elce which was not bothered about in the sixties, which was when I started to buy mowers!!

I have always liked Bosch but my mower has been a disaster. After only a few months its burnt through the drive belt due to poor assembly. I shall be avoiding Bosch in future.

Motor burnt out after four mows. After a month I am still waiting for redress. I would not recommend Bosch nor B & Q.