My drimaster 2 started leaking, well actually more like p**sing water, from the flow control numpty after about the 6th time I used it. Not really very happy about that
It's on the garage bench at the moment waiting for when I have a spare hour to see what's wrong with it.
Otherwise, I found it quite easy to change over to after using bog standard 3.5" detailer with spray guard for the last god knows how many years.
One thing though is that I've found it doesn't work well at all on lower pressures, it needs at least 200psi through it to maintain an even solution flow otherwise it all bunches into the centre.
The solution control numpty might as well just be an on/off switch tbh. It's impossible to run it on 50% flow the whole time because as soon as it gets rubbed along the side of a cushion or something the numpty gets moved - you can accidentally catch it quite easily and change the flow rate. You can control the flow with your ball valve on the end of your main solution hose which is only an arm length away so I don't really see the point of including a feature that just annoys you and gives you another problem to work around.
I'm sure I've heard it said that you can clean on the push stroke as well as pull stroke with the drimaster 2 but their literature says nothing about it. It has a vac slot either side of the solution slot so in theory that should be true but in practice it leaves the fabric very wet when you use a push stroke. So every time you lift off and put the tool back to the furthest point away to do your next stroke, you're wasting solution. 50% more solution than the mark 1 tool!
I used more water on a 3-pc than a whole 4 bed house the other day
When you back off the flow you lose the heat, it feels almost cold unless it's on full blast.
All in all though, once you get the hang of it the tool does start to make sense. if you just use pull strokes and don't worry about how much water you use
