Good morning everyone! I've been lurking around here for a while, but this is my first post. Thought I'd tell you about my experience with the 562xp. Been cutting firewood for years with cheap, junk saws that I found at garage sales or pawn shops. I'd spend half my time cutting, and about half my time working on my fine collection of plastic Poulans and Woodsharks. My firewood duties just seem to keep multiplying over the years. For several years now, I cut firewood for our house, my parents, my wifes parents, her aunt, and sell around 6-10 cords a year if I'm able to cut extra. Hopefully, when I get to the age where I can't do it anymore, someone will do it for me too! Anyway, after spending one of those Saturdays cutting/tinkering with my saw, I decided I'd had enough. I started looking around and browsing the web, and found this website. I was amazed at all the information I found in one place. After reading many posts about many different saws, I decided on the Husqvarna 562xp. When I finally started cutting with the saw, I couldn't believe it. It absolutely lived up to all the hype; what a saw! But after several weeks of cutting, I started getting the warm start problems that I've read about here. Then there were times when it was even difficult to start cold (irregular idle, would die if you tried to rev it, slight hesitation when blipping the throttle). It seemed like it had lost some power too. I was starting to get really disappointed in the saw, every time I cut I was having problems with it starting, idling, loss of power, etc. When I first got the saw, I followed the instructions with a cut 3-5 minutes long to set the AT. I also followed the instructions exactly for warm starts (primer bulb, choke up, then all the way down for fast idle). I tried resetting the autotune setting several times with 3-5 minute cuts, with not much improvement. I finally called the dealer, and described the problems. He said to try the 3-5 minute cut again, but don't let the RPMs come down at all for the entire cut (for the previous cuts, I would let off the throttle for a half-second or so between cuts). So I set me up a log on a sawhorse and did up and down cuts for about 5 minutes and did not let off the throttle for the ENTIRE time. The saw was WOT for the whole 5 minutes. After letting it idle a bit and cool down, it was like a brand new saw. All my problems with the saw immediately disappeared. Warms starts great, idles great. It even sounds different. After the WOT run, it has a much lower pitched, fuller,meatier sound. Before it had started to sound 'tinny'. (I hope that makes sense, hard to describe). I think it has more power now than when I first ran the saw. Anyway, the whole point of my post was to describe what fixed my saw. Hopefully, it might help someone else who is having the same problems.
