Corrections
Everything this site has published and then had to change, with the reason. Including the ones that do not flatter us — a corrections page carrying only the tidy half is an advert with a different heading.
A correction appears here when something published was wrong, rather than merely improvable, and a reader acting on the old version could reasonably have decided differently. Typo sweeps and rewording do not qualify and are not listed, which is also why recently verified is a longer list than this one.
Dates do not move on this site to make a page look current, so the date on a correction is the day the fix shipped and the date on the page it touched moved with it. What each label below means: specification changed is a published number that was wrong; verdict changed is a recommendation a reader would have followed differently.
A cable data rate we called unpublished, which Baseus publishes
· specification changed · verdict changed
What was wrong. Our record for the Baseus retractable USB-C cable read “Data rate: not published by Baseus”, and a page built on that absence.
What it says now. Baseus publishes both figures on its own product page for the Free2Pull Mini: 100 W at 5 A and 20 V, and 480 Mbps. 480 Mbps is USB 2.0, and it is now the reason the cable is named as the wrong buy for anyone who moves files.
How it happened. Two searches had been run on the product name rather than the model name, and both came back empty. Failing to find something is evidence about where you looked, not about whether it exists — and “they do not publish it” is a claim that needs positive evidence like any other.
Where: Baseus Free2Pull Mini review, Charging four things from one hotel socket
An affiliate link on this site was tagged to a different site of ours
· no specification changed · verdict unchanged
What was wrong. The outbound link on the Fumoto drain valve — the eighth most-clicked product in the catalogue — was a shortener which, once resolved, carried the store ID belonging to Forgotten Feasts, the owner's other site.
What it says now. The link stores the real destination and the tag is applied at redirect time. A build rule now refuses any stored shortener outright, because a shortener hides the tag inside it and there is nothing to audit.
How it happened. An audit reads the stored URL, and a shortener has no tag in it to read — the tag only exists after the redirect. The commission was earned and attributed to the wrong property rather than lost, and no reader paid anything different either way. It is published here because how this site is paid is a thing readers are entitled to know we got wrong.
Where: Fumoto drain valve review
A pressure washer's “30 minutes” is the battery, not the tank
· specification changed · verdict changed
What was wrong. Our record carried the 30-minute figure every listing leads with, without saying what it measures, and carried 220 PSI as though it were the operating pressure.
What it says now. 30 minutes is the battery's continuous runtime. The tank holds 3.17 gallons and Fanttik publishes no flow rate, so the tank cannot be converted into a working time at all — and water runs out long before the cell does. 220 PSI is the top of three modes; the other two are 100 and 160.
How it happened. The headline number was taken from the listing rather than from the manufacturer's own specification table, and the two describe different things. The page that sends readers here already told them to judge this product on whether one tank outlasts the job — it now says that the maker gives them no way to work that out.
Where: Fanttik NB10 Fold review, Washing salt off the underside
Three pages asserted thermal paste claims ARCTIC does not make
· specification changed · verdict unchanged
What was wrong. Three pages described the ARCTIC MX-6 as “carbon-based” and “non-conductive and non-capacitive”. ARCTIC's own product page publishes neither phrase.
What it says now. The pages cite what ARCTIC does publish — 1.8 × 10¹² ohm-cm volume resistivity and a 7.5 kV/mm breakdown voltage — which is the measurement behind the adjective rather than the adjective.
How it happened. The product record was corrected the same morning and the pages quoting it were not, because nothing in the build compares a page's prose against the record it cites. A record is a source and a page is a copy, and only the record is read live.
Where: Thermal paste vs thermal pads, Repasting a GPU, and when not to, When to replace thermal paste
A cordless inflator's weight was roughly double what RYOBI publishes
· specification changed · verdict unchanged
What was wrong. The record carried an unsourced bare-tool weight of about 2.5–2.9 lb, and that figure was live in a comparison table cell.
What it says now. RYOBI publishes 1.35 lb. The published 0–150 PSI range and the 20 in hose were added at the same time.
How it happened. The original figure had no source attached, which is the condition that lets a wrong number survive. Weight is roughly half the reason anyone picks a cordless inflator over a 12 V compressor, so it was wrong in the one place it decides the argument.
Where: 12 V compressor vs cordless inflator, Portable tire inflators: what actually matters
An inspection mirror was named for a claim its maker never makes
· specification changed · verdict changed
What was wrong. Our record said the Ullman A-2T's joint holds its angle, and gave a reach of 4-1/2 in to 18 in. Several of our pages tell readers to demand a mirror whose joint holds angle, so that claim was the stated reason for naming this one.
What it says now. Ullman publishes 6 in to 18-5/8 in, and says only that the mirror “can be adjusted to nearly any angle”. All five pages now state plainly that the hold-angle claim is unpublished, and name the product on what is actually published instead.
How it happened. The record asserted the exact criterion our own pages tell readers to look for, which is the most dangerous kind of error to leave in place — it turns our advice into a recommendation for itself. Verifying before recommending changed both the figures and the argument.
Where: Dropped a bolt into the engine bay, There is a puddle under the car, Finding parts for a car nobody stocks, Small tools that save annoying garage jobs
Found something else wrong?
Tell us. A specification we have quoted wrongly is the most useful thing anyone can send, because it is checkable — a link to the manufacturer’s own page settles it in one click and the correction lands here.
What the three status labels mean, and what a researched assessment does and does not rest on, is set out in how we test.