Nah Cripp, we got the full solar heating dealios on the roof. I haven't put the solar cover on in years. We don't get many storms here so having it open in winter just looks cool - and we can often swim in it anyway.
Reiffle - I don't know much about the Aquabot turbo so I can't say. From the photos I've seen of it online it looks quite a bit different. The old cleaner I had would get stuck in two places in my pool. The Hayward I linked above has a little mechanism that rotates the cleaner every 10 seconds or something crazy so that even if it does get stuck it clears itself fairly quickly. Saves wear and tear on the pool surface from suctioning/cleaning in one area while it is stuck.
I guess I've been pretty lucky (aside from the example above that wasn't even my fault) that we haven't had many issues. I take my pool filter out every month or two and give it a nice thorough water-jet cleaning, check the chemicals once a week (or every 2 weeks if I forget) and we've had pretty good luck.
