you`ll get no complaints from me about my craftsman mower .. it was made in 1987 .. i did not buy it new .. a neighbor did .. when it got to where it would not go in reverse he parked it and got a new john deere .. i never use reverse anyway .. eventually i got it from him .. after using it for about 5 years the reverse problem fixed itself .. i made sure the neighbor saw me going backwards one day and he came running over .." how`d you fix that !! i would never had gotten rid of it if i knew you could fix it ".. i dint tell him no different .. it fixed itself ..