Why hasn’t Husqvarna made a chainsaw, or any gasoline powered equipment that is ethanol resistant? I've two Husqvarna chainsaws, a 235 and a 485 which have both had to have carburetor work due to the adverse affects of ethanol on the carburetor. Seems to me that Husqvarna, and every other manufacture of machines which use small engines, has had more than sufficient time to make all their products E85 compliant. I suspect the answer is that it would add an insignificant amount of cost to the product, and it would decrease the amount of aftermarket parts sold and dealer work generated. In my opinion it’s shameful that these folks have not addressed this ongoing problem.
Why does Husqvarna use an “Answer Army” to address customer quires about their products? This is truly the customer providing the “customer service” and just plain cheap and lazy on Husqvarna’s part. If Husqvarna cared about customer service they would have folks in their employ to do just that.