Kärcher K2 Compact Home and Car Air-Cooled Pressure Washer

I initially purchased this from Spares-2-go, however I never received the product and despite being refunded I had to pay them an £11.50 "handling charge". I reordered from Hughes Direct the following day and received it promptly a couple of days afterwards. If I'm being perfectly honest, one can get through life without owning a jet washer, what it does do though is make all those dirty little jobs incredibly fun. I now find myself wanting to clean the car or the patio and every time I use it I still get that slight surge of excitement I used to get as a child when playing with a super soaker. On a more serious note however I have got more odd jobs done around the garden in a week than I had all the previous year, all the outside walls are now clean and free of moss, the patio looks brand new and the driveway is gleaming. All in all a very useful (and fun to use) product which I'd highly recommend.

I bought this pressure washer from Spares-2-Go in September 2015. Two weeks ago (Sept 2017) the plastic connector thread on the hose had become worn and disconnected every time I turned the washer on. Having lost the original invoice, Spares-2-Go provided a copy within hours of my request. Karcher UK honoured their 2-year guarantee and provided a replacement within one week after receiving my photos. Well done Spares-2-Go, well done Karcher, 1st class service! Regarding the washer itself – brilliant. It’s powerful enough to clean fences, decking, bicycles, window ledges, wheelie bins, patios and cars with ease and in a fraction of the time it would take by hand. I bought the car cleaning attachments and use the detergent dispenser to apply liquid polish (Demon Shine) after the rinse. It takes seconds to apply and far less polish than when applied by hand. Would recommend this product to anyone.

Fairly easy to build and very effective at cleaning paving but very disappointing when it comes to cleaning cars. No better than my old brush and hose

So I have had my K2 for a month now; in general it's a good, compact pressure washer that's relatively easy to carry and use. A couple of design flaws to be aware of though: - The power cable is prohibitively short so you have to use an extension lead for most jobs. - The 'drinking straw' cleaner draw-up device could do with a weight on the end to make sure it stays in the source reservoir/bucket. - Requires a high quality 'hose-lock' hose to connect to without experiencing the ever-annoying water disconnections that plague most pressure washer systems (in my experience). The patio cleaner attachments is worth investing in as it seems to work very well at removing algae and dirt from patio stone.

Excellent washer, compact, easy to set up and use. The car cleaning kit and the soap dispenser are a bit gimmicky, better off using a sponge and then the jet to rinse if you want good results., depends if you want a really good clean. All other attachments work well, the deck cleaner did a good, quick job on very dirty decking. This is the first pressure washer owned so have nothing to compare to. As long as the lifespan is decent then this will be a great investment.

Really weird this one, I shipped the karcher over to portugal to use at my villa and it was still in its box and never used until today. I took it out and read the instructions and started to clean the outside patio tiles. For quarter of an hour it was brilliant and doing the job really well and then the black pipe disintegrated and water started coming out from the pipe leading up to the hose. So for 15 minutes we had a lovely machine and now I have no idea how to replace the pipe, am going to try and bodge it with insulation tape. Have since tried to bodge with waterproof tape for half the length of the pipe to no avail, leaks from everywhere, first time of use and no good whatsoever.

I purchased this item 17 months ago and it recently developed a fault within the body of the unit. I phoned the Kärcher helpline, explained the situation to a very helpful person who explained how I should proceed. Short story even shorted, I had a brand new replacement unit on my doorstep in a matter of days. Now that it was I call superb after sales service. Very professional. All you other hopeless companies take note! As for the pressure washer itself, it has performed very well for our needs. It has average use, cleaning the family car and my van every few weeks and once a year it does a great job cleaning up our decking/ patio. Time to order some more cleaning solution. All in all I'd say it is a 4* product (minus a star as it broke) plus the 5th * for excellent customer service from Kärcher. Amazon played there usual part in providing a shopfront for rock bottom prices.

Base machine ok not great but for price what can be expected . 4 m hose way to short useless in fact and extra hose way to dear so they made there money on accessories (extra hose nearly as dear as base machine )and karcher hoses are odd ball fitting that can not be made longer by-most pipe makers I tried Should have come with a 7 m hose at least and not try and rip off customers buying accessories