As a brand these saws are too new to gage reliability. But since they are mechanically identical to the V-Modest I would call them nearly indestructible. Early on V-Mod had some starters come apart but that’s really the only failure I’ve heard of. Everything else I’ve seen or heard about was human caused, either factory worker or user. I know of 2 flywheels that were installed misaligned with the key. The factory worker torqued them down which fractured the flywheel hub but it didn’t come apart until the saws were used. At that point the hub broke apart and the flywheel freespun on the crank. Important to note, it didn’t escape the starter cover or eject any high speed material. Early on a few saws had leaky fuel lines which turned out to be small cuts from installing the little clamps. I had a couple with a missing screw. A few made it out of the factory without the little rubber grommet on the end of the fuel pump. One had the wires not fully pushed onto the kill switch spades and they came all the way off after a couple tanks. A fellow in Canada had the trigger safety lever spring break. One saw had something wrong with the carb and the owner couldn’t get it to tune. He eventually tracked it down to being dirt in the carb. That’s really all I can think of over the last year & a half aside from the much talked about air filters. Overall these little guys have proven to be rock solid and I can’t think of even one other saw, past or present, that has had as good a record as these have.
