I bought a lidl pressure washer last year, the Lavorwash 160. Recently in use, the bayonet end snapped off which connects the gun to the lance
- firing the lance across my drive.
The item was described as guaranteed for three years, so I tried to get Lidl to honour the guarantee - they refused, suggesting that only the main unit was covered. They did though offer a £40 refund, if I returned the entire unit.
As the unit was basically a pretty good one for the price, I decided to see if there were some way to repair it. The actual coupling is solid brass, but the lance is retained by a rather delicate plastic bayonet part of completely inadequate design. To make it even worse, the play within the bayonet was such that the brass parts were only partially engaged and much of the strain being taken by the plastic sleeve of the bayonet - basically the last inch of the plastic snapped off leaving it with nothing to hold the lance into the gun against the pressure.
I managed to find some alloy tube of exactly the right internal diameter to be a perfect fit over the plastic coupling, then pinned this with bolts drilled and tapped for the gun end and a couple more to pin the broken off end in place. The whole thing is now much stronger than before.
I'm certain that if others on this NG have bought these, they will suffer a similar failure and the price of a replacement gun (they will not sell just the bit which breaks) is only a little less than Lidl's price for a complete new unit.