Ryobi 80V HP™ Brushless 54” not mowing long stalks on first cut
I bought a Ryobi 80V HP™ Brushless 54” Zero Turn Ride-On Mower, which is Ryobi’s top of the range electric mower for $13K in 09/2024 and would like to share my experience with this product and with Ryobi Support.
Since this date I had to replace 3 defective 80V batteries and 1 defective 36V battery, a defective armrest and one defective blade adapter, all under warranty.
This is annoying enough in particular because of the high fault rate of the batteries and the fact that the new replacement batteries were up to more than 3 years old. But the real problem with the mower is on a different level.
I found that the mower does simply not mow longer stalks of grass in one cut, even if the actual overall height of the grass is very low. This requires me to mow the area with long stalks twice and in my case, this basically means I am mowing the whole area twice, since there are always a few long stalks everywhere.
After doing some research I found that this problem is caused by the design of the blades Ryobi uses, which are producing insufficient updraft for the long stalks to be fully pulled into the blades during first cut.
I asked Ryobi for alternative, high updraft, blades but found out that there are no such blades available for this mower. When I asked for the reason for this lack of alternative blades Ryobi claimed that this problem is unique to me.
No other customer has ever complaint about this problem they said. That is also the reason as per why they will not develop and offer an optional set of high updraft blades which would resolve this problem.
I do not believe that other customers do not have the same problem and would like to encourage those of you who do use the same mower and do have the same problem to come forward and do two things:
1) Comment of this review with the experience you made
2) Get in touch with Ryobi via email (use the Ryobi support email) and let them know that this is a common problem, while referring to my case number (Ref No. 04980921)
Hopefully this will motivate Ryobi to do the right thing and make some high updraft blades available in the near future.
In summary:
Based on the experience I made with the Ryobi 80V HP™ Brushless 54” Zero Turn Ride-On Mower I cannot recommend this product.
Based on the experience I made with Ryobi Support I cannot recommend Ryobi in general.
21 de junio de 2026
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