Making it pretty much worthless - except for HOSE-ONLY function
352373
This is the second one I've bought. After a couple uses the brush roller quits working!!! Making it pretty much worthless - except for HOSE-ONLY function.
I threw the first one out - order this second one and have had it too long to return. (It was used very briefly - just for cleaning the car...and the rear deck of an SUV - BUT the damn rollers don't rotate.
4286872
The fluid, of whatever kind, merely trickles from the spigot on this thing.  To fill a 12-oz. glass will take one full minute.  I only used it for water and iced tea, so there were no blockage issues.  I also inspected the spigot to see if there was a manufacturing defect.  Nope, it's just a trickler.  Making matters worse, there's no air flow from the top to provide pressure.  I took to taking the whole top off to get some sort of flow through the spigot.  It doubled the rate, but even that was completely insufficient.  Out of frustration, I just stopped using the spigot altogether and started pouring the tea out of the top.  What's the point of a spigoted jug at that point?  So, this $30 jug is now a glorified and unwieldy jar for tea.  Meanwhile, I bought an old cheapy for $5 from the local drugstore that works like a champ.
3128165
The hose that is supplied with this unit is very thin walled. It collapses when you try to establish a siphon and stops the flow of water. This unit is really a piece of junk and should be removed from Amazon. The filter head worked well when I used it with a different hose.
318206
Great hose, really, really lousy flimsy splitter. Invest an extra $3 and buy a good splitter.
4083398
i purchased this to remove and replace a delta faucet.  during the removal of the old delta faucet and installation of a new one, i was able to use this tool on only one of the parts.  as part of the project, i had to remove and replace the faucet, the valve, a garbage disposal button, and a lotion dispenser.  out of four holes, it was useful in one.  it's cute to use it to close the valves before working on the project, after that it's largely useless.  regretting my purchase.
168157
This item has two main parts - an "inline" connector that allows for quick connect and disconnect at a hose reel or other location, and a second one with a shutoff for possibly using with a sprinkler, nozzle, etc.  The inline part works well - the part with the shutoff is useless.  This thing has a spring that is so tight I could barely connect and disconnect it using both hands.  Once it is on a hose it's even worse, since now your hands are on the sides, not directly in line with the connector.
4224363
Reading other reviews I might concede that other folks may have liked it; but for me, it was worthless. Never could get it to work, and after attempting to hand pump a few drops thru it for barely a minute I simply gave up. I wanted to drain a gas tank but EVEN IF i could make this work...I didn't have all day/night to wait.  I'm older now & barely minute of hand pumping/squeezing it set off my arthritis and tendonitis.  The tube/s are miniature. IF it even worked i would have been there all night. After a certain age Time is more valuable than money. I  intend to return it. A buddy at a shop recommend 'The Jiggler' and a much bigger hose than this supplied hose & nylon tube. I ended up having a buddy rigging up an old, spare electric Holley Blue pump with set of alligator clamps a few days later. No messing around, done. I gave it a '2' verses a ONE bc I DO like that it had a built-in, inline filter.  In the even t of an emergency I rather have a mouthful of gasoline than the aggravation this caused me.
4310893
Anyone that has used a cheap hose or a cheap hose sprayer knows that they leak and usually are not worth the savings. This little packet of junk falls into that catagory. It took me several hours to measure and then feed all the tubes into the various attachments and I made sure every one was tight (read; elbow grease). When I turned it on the pressure was very uneven and leaking from the main connection to the hose (to the point that it would waste any savings that the system was supposed to provide in the first place. This product gets a FAIL.
350268
Hose connector useless. has TWO PLUGS one for pump one for UV light making it a joke
No warranty on light making any warranty at all a complete joke
4852682
Kinks worse than any hose I have ever purchased - Hate it !!
4706604
The hose itself is great. But very cheap plastic is used for all connectors. There is a valve you have to close to inflate the hose. But when I turned it, the lever broke off in my hand (and I'm a weakling). The end that goes on the faucet leaked like crazy where it connects to the hose. Great idea, but the poor quality material makes it impossible to use.
2748416
The pump on this is useless, there's two open valves on each side so air escapes while you're trying to pump. The nozzle from the air hose also doesn't fit into the ball, no matter how hard I push it- so you're forced to blow up the ball manually.  The instruction manual doesn't mention any of these issues. It's possible to blow it up manually , but why am I paying for a pump and nozzle if they're unusable?
4810455
The product failed the first time I used it.  The black hose adapter came right out of the filter from the pressure caused by the filter density.  If they would just fasten the hose adapter in place instead of used a press fit the product would be great.  But for now it is residing in the trashcan as another worthless and poorly designed product.
4127926
I bought this about four years ago and started having problems in the last few months.  We have hard water and I have soaked it a number of times in CLR, but this did not help water flow.  The hose wore out and water would leak from this instead going to hand held part.  I would have re-ordered another one if my BF didn't notice the reason the hose wore out is because the weight of the handheld goes all to the hose and not the plastic handle.  If they just designed the plastic mount to hold the handle instead of the small hose part, it would have lasted longer.

"Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer functional after a certain period of time".

Jerks, that makes me so mad!  I won't order this model again, and I'm not sure about this brand now either.

Charles and Michelle
4330387
I found this to be a very poorly done product.  First, in theory, you insert the 1/2-inch tubing into the back, then rotate the winged nut to grip the tubing.  The underground tubing, which is a bit heavier than the black tubing which can be used above ground, does not fit.  So I pulled off the rear section and secured the tubing with a hose clamp.  But then the rotating female end which connects to the hose bib snapped off in the middle of a timed watering session.  It did so, admittedly, because the rigid tubing pulled at an angle, but the force was not so great that the thing should come apart.  There might well be applications where this is a suitable product -- using the thinner gauge above-ground tubing which exits the couple fairly straight -- but overall this conceptually smart product does not do the job.
196211
I would give this hose no stars if I could. We have excellent water pressure yet this hose never inflates. It remains flat and then it bends right behind the hose end cutting off the flow of water completely. I have to support the hose with one hand at the hose end with one hand in order for the water flow. Also, because it never fully inflates, it will kink. The hose does not coil up neatly in a hose pot; you just end up with a jumbled mess at best. It was even a worse hose in the winter when the cold weather made it difficult to stretch the hose out. We don't even live in a climate that freezes. Total waste of money.
4055757
The only good things about all of these expanding hoses is that they are light and easy to store. In addition to the fact that they are based on a very thin, expandable tubing makes them incredibly vulnerable to bursting, no matter how strong they claim the outside webbing to be. Once burst, there is absolutely no possibility of repairing - like you can with a conventional hose. I have now gone through three different models, each one surviving only a few uses. Operationally, they also have many serious disadvantages. They snag in the garden easily, they get very dirty and are hard to clean off, and the pressure in the hose invariably changes causing the hose to expand and retract during use which is a real pain when being used fully extended. Also you have to walk back to the faucet to turn off then back to then to drain the hose for storage. There is no way you would leave these hose out as you would a regular hose so you have to go through the hook up and draining every time to use. Believe me, a terrible concept very, very poorly executed despite brass fitting and the like. Don't even think about it.