Griots Garage Polisher! Crazy Price?

Madness87 said:
I'm thinking of getting the 3" version myself... Just debating whether or not it really is needed or not. I might just get a 3" or 3.5" backing plate instead.

As for Griot's customer service, it is quite good. But what's the point if the machine is poorly built? The griots does have the most power, and that's why I bought one, but they have the highest rate of failure amongst the current DA's. Meguiars had a cord problem but that's been fixed.

Now, Griot's even refuses to fix any more polishers if they find out it's been used "professionally" meaning they don't like it if you use it everyday as part of your business and it keeps failing.

I emailed Kyle at Griot's, and he basically said the tool is only for the weekend warrior or hobbyist. Judging by some more research, it seems the Griot's is just a recolored or rebadged Chinese made DAS-6 polisher that you can buy off of many export sites. No wonder it does have a somewhat high failure rate.

I've just gotten my own GG6 and I'm already dreading it dying on me because even though they have a lifetime warranty against defect, it's just a hassle sending it out.

My rambling aside, do you guys feel the 3" version would be a good buy, or to get a 3" backing plate for the 6" polisher?
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What study was done proving it has the highest failure rate? or is this "study" a random scrolling of message board posts? I've seen countless people wihtout any issues with their griots, maybe we're all lucky
 
JSFM35x said:
Please pm me where
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ezriderga said:
The 6" is 89.99 and the 3" is 67.99. I don't know about you but I'm frugal and it makes sense to me to buy where I can get the best price.

I purchased a new GG 6" polisher 2 months ago for less than this from a local retailer. I don't know where you got your information but I had a problem with mine right away and GG replaced it with no problem. Griot's Garage has great customer service.
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Where is that?
 
Mayassa said:
I tried the 3 inch adapter on my 6 inch gg it kept tossing my pad at anything over speed one unless I put a lot of pressure on the pad. So I picked up a gg3 this week while the price is low. Besides I can justify it if I use the scrubber pad once in the house.
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I know what you're saying... I kept debating whether or not to buy it. On the one hand, the small size is a plus, but on the other, so many people have said it's too weak to do any correction.

I decided to order the Lake Country 3.5" backing plate and then get some 4" pads. I feel that is small enough to sort of do the a-pillars and tight spaces, but still strong enough to get defects out.

The low price is very tempting, but my thought was, I'll probably be picking up a Flex PE14 or Dewalt 849X rotary soon, and then I can just keep the 3.5" backing plate on the Griot's the entire time.

Please let me know what you think of the 3" Griots Mayassa, we've also spoken on slickdeals as well ;)
 
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