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Bizarre, for everyone else it made a world of difference.

I was just sharpening my upgraded 201 and looked at the date on it, it says 2012 but I think I got it in January 2013. So 4 years later it has not missed a beat, never been in the repairers, unlike my 200s which only seemed to last a couple of years at best, now, I'll confess I alternate it...

They won't refund it, they won't pay for the repair, so you've got a shit saw or pay a bit more to get it working right. Now one can bitch and wriggle, curse Stihl to the high heavens, wring ones hands at the cruel injustice of it or buy the upgrade stuff and have a great saw. The key thing is...

I just wrote those numbers down, took them to a skeptical mechanic, he punched them into his 'puter. Et voila

It's on page one of this thread!

You don't need it, yours is in the raped ape category is it not? You never know, maybe they'll start to hand it out for free.

If I could get away with it! You're right, but it's not going to happen, so time to suck it up.

IMO it's time people started saying "right, some early 201s are rubbish, (I have one btw) stihl are producing an upgrade, let's get it and get on with it" They made a mistake and are providing a solution. They're not going to come round your house and beg forgiveness. Big corporations can make...

Exactly.

I doubt that very much. If it works the clamour for this 50 dollar kit will overwhelming.

Interesting, as an owner of a good one and a bad one I knew that something was intrinsically different, despite stihls dealers assertion there wasn't. What stihl have done is clever, no recalls no admissions just a very cheap upgrade kit that will set it right. They've seen and heard the...

Maybe someone in Gemany saw your vid!