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I am going to be buying a Makita cordless shortly. I researched a ton once I realized I couldn't go wrong with any of the big lines I looked at what some of the most recent released tools. Than ultimately I let my wife pick between 5 different tools since she is buying it for me for a father's day gift. She thought the Makita has a pretty color. Ultimately though you have to be careful with reviews. Many (as was pointed our to me on these forums) are by jaded customers who may have misused tools and such

NERemodeling: Have you ever experienced the battery issues that I have heard about with the older Makita batteries?

posionfangs, eric, chrisK, DR99, Fletcher94 and conductor. Thanks for all of your input! I have not really looked at bosch but I will. I didn't look at dewalt initially because I know a couple of dewalt only users who poo poo everything else for everything and anyone who doesn't use dewalt. The best part is now I can actually rest my mind on the whole quality part. My tools will be a huge investment and I didn't want to throw money away. Next step is head to the ol HD and see how they feel!!! P.S. Yes in my ktichen and bathroom's which were decorated in a hideous wall paper they put the dry wall up backwards. So when removing the wall paper it was tearing chunks out of my walls. I Guess it's a good thing I was planning on redoing those rooms in the 10 year plan.

First off love the forums. So much into...maybe to much in my case. I currently have a craftsman set I got just because I needed a cordless drill for when I bought my house. It is getting underpowered for my needs as my project list is expanding. Which means I uncover more poorly made crap in my house (upon moving in I discovered the original builders put drywall up backwards) or my wife decides I need to expand my woodworking skills to build her something else. What I am asking for is help if my thinking is wrong and for suggestions. First off I want accuracy, toughness and reliability. I want is to go as cordless as possible. So I was thinking I should buy into a line and run with that. I would prefer to not have to own three different tools like a drill/driver/hammer drill. Currently I have it down to makita and Milwaukee. Nothing against dewalt but it seems in all tests it scores well but is not necesarily too dog. I am going to start with a hammer drill/driver. Most of my projects will be drilling less than 3/4 inch holes and mostly driving nails with the occasional 1+ inch holes needed. Drilling into concrete will also be a rarity. So with that said I am looking into brushless hammer drills. I was looking at the Milwaukee 2604-20 and makita xph07m. I could go with the slightly less priced (and torqued) lxph03 but for an extra $10 I get an addional 250+lbs of torque. Is the zph07m too much for such mundane tasks? Will I see more problems with me breaking the heads off of screws and such? I did briefly look at the rigid gen 5x tools briefly but I heard so many problems with registering their I product it kind of scares me away. Any suggestions or thoughts on my line of thinking and product suggestions is greeatly welcomed!