I made a similar point about this whole Nordictrack - IFit thing the equipment quality does not match the price for a start -- and the problems you have had are appalling - think if that machine was in a gym - they would be livid
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Fitness Equipment
NordicTrack Commercial 1750 Treadmill
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The NordicTrack Commercial 1750 is a $1,199 CAD home treadmill with iFit-driven incline/decline and a touchscreen console, positioned as a mid-to-upper home cardio machine.
16 mentions · 9 threadslast mention Feb 20264.7/ 10
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NordicTrack Commercial 1750 Treadmill
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Mine works fine but it is very restricting unless you purchase iFIT. Owned ours for 2 plus years and use it every day begrudgingly to get my monies worth. You can control start/stop speed, incline with zero ability to program a custom exercise. I wish I had shopped around.
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i've had to repair a couple and they were both NT junk and pre-pandemic. this weak deck issue has been a thing for them for way too long.
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You're hearing here from treadmill technicians who have serviced the brand for years and know what the treadmills, and the company, are really like after the new treadmill smell wears off. They are telling you that NordicTrack treadmills are poorly made compared to others, don't hold up well, and the company is difficult to deal with.
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There are plenty of other better treadmills. Nordictrack is absolute garbage. You could get used commercial, Horizon or Sole that will all be better than the Nordictrack.
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Yes, while the treadmill was off, I inserted the SD card, then turned it on. It checks the SD slot first before fully booting and what it found were instructions to reinstall fully, which it did. Took it right back to factory fresh with a fully working iFit... My wife and I have been using it almost daily.
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Mine is sitting in my yard looking as dumb as I feel for buying it.
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Because I have worked on more of those than I care to admit, and they are all garbage. If the drive belt looks like that, the controller was probably stressed as well, and may shut down when using. Those treadmills are absolute money pits.
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Hi! I have had similar issues, the machine is complete garbage. The current problem....the board under the belt snapped while my husband was running on it!!! These machines need to be recalled, I am so utterly sorry I purchased it. I've had it about 14 months, its been broken about 50% of the time. I had to go through BBBureau to even get a response from the company.
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I had three nordictracks in less than three years. Nothing but problems. If they work, they are fun but most of the time they do not work. I now have a horizon 7.4 AT and 0 problems after about 1000km.
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Made the mistake of buying this treadmill, I also got an extended warranty too. Heres the parts that broke on my 2023 version: Motor Motor Controller (separate occasion) Frame bolt (like 1/2" thick, should not break!) Cracked running deck (I'm only 185lbs) Electronic circuit breaker - Kept tripping at 14.5km/h Eventually the entire unit was replaced due to the frame bending What a lemon!
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I bought this NordicTrack Commercial 1750 for $200 thinking I was getting a good deal (10% of purchase price), but what I bought was a headache and a crash course to be a treadmil technition.
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Deck (which broke while I was running - I weigh far less than 300 lbs)
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After looking for a high-quality treadmill that I planned to use for the long-term, I purchased the NordicTrack Commercial 1750 treadmill. In summary, I regret my purchase after 3 months of use and would never have bought the machine.
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Bought the NordicTrack Commercial 1750 (Model No. NTL14114.0) in 2014. Within a year or so, I was getting a blue ifit frozen screen. After much back and forth over several months, they sent me a whole new console, which fixed the (apparently more common than it should have been) problem I was having.
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Commercial 1750 has a softer cushion while running (my ankles are not the strongest and I have bad arch support)
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✅ What Works
- The deck cushioning is softer underfoot than most home treadmills, which owners with weaker ankles or arch support specifically call out as easier on their joints.
- A frozen iFit screen has a known fix — reinsert the SD card while powered off and it reinstalls to factory-fresh, which resolved at least one owner's console issue without a service call.
⚠️ Worth Knowing
- The running deck is a recurring failure point: multiple owners report it cracking or snapping during normal use, including one well under the 300lb weight rating and one where the board broke mid-run — 3+ mentions.
- Motors, motor controllers, and frame bolts fail outside of cosmetic wear-and-tear — one owner's unit needed the motor, controller, a frame bolt, and eventually the entire frame replaced under an extended warranty — 4+ mentions.
- Treadmill technicians who service the brand independently confirm the pattern: poorly made compared to competitors, doesn't hold up, and the company is difficult to get warranty support from — this isn't just disgruntled owners.
- Multiple owners describe repeat failures across more than one unit, and at least one switched to a Horizon treadmill afterward with zero problems over 1,000km — this is a comparison the wall itself raises, not an outside opinion.
ClearPick Verdict
The merged wall is dominated by structural failures, not gripes: owners report cracked running decks (one under a runner well below the 300lb rating), snapped frame bolts, failed motors and controllers, and a bent frame requiring full replacement — one incident described the deck breaking mid-run and called it recall-worthy. Treadmill technicians who service the brand say the pattern holds across units and that NordicTrack is difficult to deal with once something breaks. Two owners are satisfied — one likes the softer deck cushioning on their joints, another recovered a frozen iFit screen with a factory SD-card reset — but they are outliers against twelve negative reports out of sixteen. Buy this if you've found a specific unit at a steep discount and are prepared to do your own repairs; skip it if you want a treadmill that survives its warranty period.
