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I'm sure that is a letter everyone wants to recieve in the mail after they spend their hard earned money. I think the letter should read:

                    Dear soon to mad customer,

                                              Due to our lack of quality control or no quality control at all, your brand new snowthrower that you purchased from us will soon catch on fire and burn your entire garage down with it. But there is good news my new lexus was just delivered yesturday  see you on the golf course

                                                                                                                   Sincerely,

                                                                                                                             The President of Ariens

Does anyone have a Honda HS1132 Track Drive Snowthrower?  If so can you give any input on how you like it or don't like it. Also is the upgrade for the electric start really worth, every Honda engine I have ever owned seemed to start fairly easy. Thanks

Thanks for the info. I actually did look at the Honda 1132 track drive at the local honda shop. I have to admit it is certainly nice until I tried to move it around on the concrete floor which is not much different from a paved driveway, which I have by the way. My driveway measures about twenty feet wide by alittle over one hundred feet long. I don't know if I want to muscle that track drive around that much. Plus I have read owner reports on the track drive and they all seem to like them except for when they have to turn them.

I live in Central New York. The snow here can very from very little all year to massive amounts all at once. The problem with the type of snow here is it is lake effect snow which is super light and fluffy. So even if we get 4-6" of new snow the drifting is the huge difference which will leave sometimes upwards of 3 to 4 foot drifts down the driveway. Think I am leaning toward the ariens because of the auger size and front opening.

I am a new home owner who is looking to by a new snow blower. I am looking at either the Simplicity P1338E or the Ariens 1336DLE. I was just wondering how much better the tecumseh motor is verse the Briggs and Stratton or vice versa. I am the type of person that likes to buy it once, and maintain it for years to come. Any info would be extremely helpful due to the price of these two machines.