{"id":4662,"date":"2018-07-28T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2020-01-20T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:37:14","slug":"ego-21%e2%80%b3-mower-lm2100sp-2nd-self-propel-motor-failure-repair-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/28\/ego-21%e2%80%b3-mower-lm2100sp-2nd-self-propel-motor-failure-repair-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego 21″\u00b3 mower (LM2100SP) 2nd self propel motor failure & repair report"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this post isn’t an accidental duplicate of this post from last year<\/a>. Yes, the self propel unit on my 21″ SP Ego lawn mower failed a second time. (This is 9 months after it was replaced under warranty from the first failure, which occurred around month 4 of ownership, so this failed self propel motor lasted twice as long as the first one.)<\/p>\n

However, \u00a0 I’m quite pleased with Ego’s warranty service compared to the last time when I had to take the mower to Home Depot’s service department (who kept it for 5 weeks).<\/p>\n

This time when I called Ego’s customer support number, I only had a seven minute hold time before talking to a person, and the customer support representative said that they would send me out a new replacement mower, arriving in 5-10 business days. [I was instructed to remove the serial number sticker and take the defective mower back to home depot “for recycling”.]<\/p>\n

I have read many accounts on Ego’s customer web forums of other self propel units failing, so they may have had a bad batch of mowers go out and are now being more pro-active about replacing them. Alternatively, maybe I’m getting a replacement mower shipped out quickly because this is the second issue I’ve had. Regardless, receiving a working replacement in 5-10 days is much better than taking 5 weeks for a repair. \u00a0 \u00a0 I’m still going to have to push my mower to mow the lawn (and it’s a big lawn, so this is more exercise than I am looking for….) but at least I could use the defective mower as a push mower until the replacement arrived and didn’t have to hire a lawn service while it’s in the shop.<\/p>\n

The new mower arrived 11 business days after my phone call (it would have been 10, except UPS had a delivery exception and delayed it over a weekend, which meant I had to push the old mower around one more time.<\/p>\n

After using the new mower with its super quiet and silky smooth self propel, I can say that the self propel unit that home depot repaired\/replaced had many signs of problems before it finally gave up the ghost. First, it was louder than the mower itself. Second, it didn’t have enough power to fully propel the mower up a slight incline. Third, every time the mower went into overdrive due to thick grass, the self propel would slow down. These issues were either there from the time I got the mower back from Home Depot, or they started and got worse so gradually that I hadn’t taken note of them, but after using the new mower, it became obvious that I should have known my self propel unit was not working the way it was supposed to. On the new mower the self propel has plenty of power to move up a grade at the same speed it moves on flat ground, it makes less noise than the blade mower, and it doesn’t slow down when the blade mower goes into “overdrive” cutting thick grass.<\/p>\n

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Update:<\/strong> Ego has started to produce updated 21″ SP models that have an updated self propel unit that matches that found in their dual battery (premium) mowers. Look for a picture of a phone on the box (see this video for details: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JtLkT5X4MQw<\/a> )<\/p>\n

2nd Update: My self propel unit failed a 3rd time, but this time Ego replaced the mower with one that has a different looking SP unit<\/a>, so I’m hopefully I got the improved version!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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