Thanks for the feedback, yeah I’ve seen some of the other videos and it’s not really obvious if they have an air lock or are pretending so they can make a video about it. Each time I get an air lock I try and get it working quicker than the last time, as frustrating as it is, I have not yet found the perfect technique! One day I’m going to open it up to see what’s going wrong! 😂

Thanks for the feedback and I’m glad it helped you fix your pressure washer.

Glad to hear!

Glad it helped and thanks for the feedback!

Glad it worked out for you, but boy, that's a shitty design.. 😂

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated 👍🏼

Not seen this problem before! How do you get it working again after it stops? I’m guessing at this stage but could it be overheating? Does it start working again on its own or do you need to do something to get it going again?

Glad to hear and good job 👍🏼. I forgot to mention in the video that it’s also a good idea to disconnect the hose pipe from the pressure washer to make sure there is no air trapped in the hose and it’s running continuously before reconnecting it to the pressure washer.

First check your hose pipe isn’t full of air; if you disconnect it from the pressure washer, does water flow constantly and at a good rate? Once that’s all good, try connecting it to the pressure washer again to see if it is still spluttering. The pump doesn’t hold a large volume inside so shouldn’t take too long to clear. If it’s starting to run continuously from the pressure hose like it does in my video, it’s then just dislodging the last of the air to get it running again.

@@SwiftDevelopments Thank you for the advice :-)

If it isn’t an air lock, is any water leaking out of the bottom? If it is check out my other Karcher video which shows how to fix that issue. If it isn’t leaking, it might be the pump cylinder head that has gone on yours, which is about a £30 part to replace.

@SwiftDevelopments Thanks for the reply. There's no water leaking from the machine. The manifold sounds plausible. The motor noise sounds very fast, which makes me think there is no resistance on the motor. Water flows through the machine fine, but only at mains water pressure.

@@gavinnoname1424 I think the only way you are going to find out is to take it apart and remove the cylinder head and inspect it. If the motor is spinning and there are no leaks, my guess would be that the motor might not be spinning the pump to create pressure. Although I've not taken mine apart to this extent, there's a disc with an oscillating surface inside which moves the three pump head valves up and down; my guess would be to see if this disc is still spinning, and if not, how it is connected to the motor.

Ever solved it? Have the same shit

@tikvosha mine was 18months old so was sent for repair under warranty. They've emailed to say its fixed and on its was back to me now

Check the Carbon Brushes

It might have helped, but I think pulsing the water by connecting/disconnecting the hose pipe is probably the most effective method of getting it going.

Yo tambien le pongo El reset para que sirba y luego El "test" para apagarlo haha, ya Tengo dos anyos haciendolo asi es tiempo de un Nuevo hasta que algen sepa que es la problema

I know it is very frustrating when it happens. I’m thinking I might open mine up one of these days to see what might be causing it. At the beginning it never did it, gets progressively worse with age, so I’m assuming something might need servicing or replacing.

Hi, you're right. There is a relatively new company to the market called AVA which offer a 20 year warranty on their pressure washers. They look good, however the problem at the moment is that they are always out of stock!

it has most problems because most sold so it makes sense.

@@SwiftDevelopments I got my dad a AVA master P60 (large bundle that came with a foam canon and two nozzles) last Christmas, after I got fed up with having to repeatedly do this procedure.. Got it working twice, but it it sits a few days or weeks it's straight back to not turning on (an older Karcher K4 Premium) as I saw a similar fix on an other channel, I haven't tried unplugging and plugging the hose back into the machine with the water running the last time it didn't turn on, and leaving the water running dit not resolve the issue.. The foam canon that came with the AVA, was much better than the one from Karcher, and produced a thicker and longer lasting foam when I tried it.. it also took a lot less snow foam concentrate to do this..

@@TheTronder007 How have you found the AVA pressure washer for performance compared to Karcher? I saw AVA mentioning they had some issues with the pump design in the older version which was causing issues for some customers (not sure what that was and how it was fixed), but I understand they've now fixed that in the latest v4 model released in the last month or so. They do look well built, but it would be interesting to hear from an existing user whether there are any niggles with AVA after longer term use? Thanks

@@SwiftDevelopments I haven't had a lot of use of the AVA master P60 yet, but from what I have experienced so far, the AVA is not lacking in any way compared with the Karcher, and I found AVA's foam canon much better than Karcher's foam canon.. It gave much thicker and longer lasting foam with less snow-foam concentrate.. If it's just the foam canon or the fact that the AVA master P60 has a slightly bigger capacity in L/hour that our old K4 Premium I cant be sure of... It could be a combination of foam canon and capacity of the pressure washer. I find the trigger grip/gun much better than karcher's one.. with the Ava I can attach the foam canon and nozzles directly to the "gun", as the lance detaches from the "gun", where as on the Karcher the trigger "gun" and lance is one solid unit The AVA master P60 is also a lot more stable and less prone to toppeling over compared to the Karcher 😄

So what should you do?

You'll be out of a job if it does work,

What about the K4 keeps tripping the house’s main!!

What about my K4 full control it stops working for around 2 ton3 seconds then starts working again, what may cause this

Margaritas come out of mine 🎉

To use the lance or not to use the lance, that is the question!

It is annoying because some of these breakdowns wouldn’t happen if they simply made the parts out of metal instead of plastic.