The assembly took about 2.5 hours (and I am fairly mechanically inclined.) Some of the parts did not fit together easily.
The electronic display looks nice, but has some minor design flaws. The worst one of these in my opinion is the heart rate monitor. It seems to be a moving average, so it takes about 20-30 seconds to get an accurate reading. I don't use the heart rate strap. The workouts are divided into 40 segments. For some reason the unit is unable to divide the time properly unless the workout is an even number of minutes. So you wind up getting weird extra intervals at the end of the workout. Also, the workout routinely tells you to increase or decrease your stride, which I find odd for a machine that has a fixed stride.
Overall the machine does not feel completely solid, when I started exercising I was 280 lbs and the machine sometimes swayed from side to side while I was working out, especially while drinking water or wiping sweat off my brow. The machine also makes a loud grinding noise while I'm using it.
I had bad experiences with customer support for this product. A few months after I bought the machine, one of the plastic bushings wore through. It turned out that they did not have this part in stock and wanted to send me a whole new machine instead. I balked at the thought of setting up a whole new machine and finding a way to dispose of the old one. The woman I talked to actually told me that I should donate the broken machine to a charity. Like anyone would want it! I thought it was ridiculous to send an entire new machine for a most likely $5 part, so I told them I would only agree to that if they sent professional installer to assemble it and hauled away both the old unit and the box the new unit came in. They finally begrudgingly agreed. (I'm not sure why they couldn't have just opened up a box and pulled the part I needed, but I digress.)
Anyway, the second machine eventually started having the same noise problems as the first machine, but it's still working after 2.5 years so I am upgrading this to 3 stars. It turned out to be more economical than a gym membership, but that's about the only good thing I can say at this point.
| Model Name | E514 |
|---|---|
| Brand | Nautilus |
| Color | Gray |
| Product Dimensions | 62"D x 26"W x 71"H |
| Maximum Weight Recommendation | 300 Pounds |
| Maximum Stride Length | 18 Inches |
| Item Weight | 165 Pounds |
| Number of Resistance Levels | 16 |
| Item Package Dimensions L x W x H | 44 x 29.5 x 18.4 inches |
| Package Weight | 174 Pounds |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 41 x 39 x 15 inches |
| Brand Name | Nautilus |
| Warranty Description | 10 year |
| Suggested Users | "" |
| Manufacturer | Nautilus |
| Part Number | 100161 |
| Sport Type | exercise_&_fitness |
