Chainsaw reviews: Reliability

In November 2011, 7,139 members of Which? Connect, our online research panel, told us about their garden machinery. We asked how satisfied people were with the brand they owned in terms of reliability.

We've complied the results of our survey to bring you our reliability scores for brands such as Stihl, Husqvarna and McCulloch.

The highest scoring brand of chainsaw has an excellent five-star reliability score, while the worst brands have three stars.

To see how well chainsaws from leading brands perform in our tests, see our Which? chainsaw reviews.

 Chainsaws Which? reliability index
 Brand Reliability
 Electric
 Black & Decker (91)  Subscriber only content
 Bosch (69)  Subscriber only content
 McCulloch (48)  Subscriber only content
 Petrol
 Husqvarna (53)  Subscriber only content
 McCulloch (60)  Subscriber only content
 Stihl (121)  Subscriber only content

Table notes

Sample size is shown in brackets

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