Title: Considerable CLUTCH PROBLEMS
Product review: I work in a hardware store in one of the New England States. We sold about 20 of these 18v. Li-Ion Hammer Drills between 1/1/07 and 3/30/07. Since then, 5 of them have been sent back to Makita with bad clutches. That is a 25% failure rate. The gears seem to slip or get locked into place. Maybe Makita spent too much time on their battery technology and not enough time on the gears.If you need a Li-Ion drill now, buy the Hitachi. I suggest you wait and see what Makita will do to fix this gear/clutch problem.
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