Repair a high-pressure Karcher K3 in 2 lessons

To clean my whereabouts – walls – terraces – cars – window frames – plastic and other, chairs the syklop have a high-pressure Kärcher, expensive on sale 3 years ago not purchased. Bad luck: this spring, during its first use, it leaks everywhere. A true jet of water, except by the high pressure hose: 3 solutions:

1. Bring it in for repair. Yes but, Kärcher has no repair service in Switzerland for its general public range: they send them in Germany, for a fixed price… close to the price of nine. No. how. Illico discarded solution.
2. Fix it. Because of a small leak, it's not rocket science, right?
3. Buy a new, taking advantage of the perpetual promotions in this area.

So, of course, forward for solution 2: repair.

Video: first, a Kärcher, after removal of the plastic covers that serve only to make it look pretty, it looks like this:

To disassemble, four key 6 pans are all:

What he should have said before, but it had to know: careful, after removal of these screws, powerful Springs separate all items and eject them on a significant surface:

Then the puzzle: casually, it's full of small parts, a Kärcher:

The culprit assumed the leak: A cracked plastic part because the syklop he left its full of water Karcher in his garage, Frost, like a fool:

Seal the crack with a little glue, choosing glue is going well:

Then, there are more to go up, and test! :

1. Reassembly: Fingers in the nose.
2. Application of pressure: Woohoo, it flows more:
3. Power: everything is nominal!
4. UH… 5,4,3,2,1: BOUUUUUUUUM! Obviously, the clogged slot was just an overview of frost damage: the piece broke everywhere where she had no glue.

Next steps: we go to solution 3: we'll buy a Kärcher brand-new. And throw away the old.

Update may 2013: an update of this article exists and you can read it by following this link!