Ryobi CID1802V: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead
An 18V impact driver from the older ONE+ line. Gone from the range, and the current brushless one is a different class of tool.
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The CID1802V was an 18V impact driver in Ryobi’s earlier ONE+ range: a brushed motor, a 1/4 in hex chuck, and a single speed. For driving long screws into framing it did the job, and it was loud doing it.
It is discontinued. Ryobi’s current impact drivers are brushless, multi-mode tools and the gap between them and this one is larger than the gap between two generations of drill.
Batteries still fit
ONE+ packs are cross-compatible across the whole history of the platform, so a current lithium battery will run this tool and your old packs will run a current tool. If the driver works and only the battery is dead, a new pack is the cheap fix.
Why the current one is genuinely better
Two changes matter on impact drivers specifically.
Brushless motors deliver more torque per amp-hour and stay cooler under sustained driving, which is exactly the load an impact driver sees.
Multiple modes matter more than they sound. A four-mode driver lets you dial down to a speed that will not snap a small screw or cam out of a Phillips head, and the self-tapping mode starts slowly then speeds up. Single-speed drivers do one thing hard, which is why so many people used them for framing and nothing else.
The Ryobi ONE+ HP 4-mode impact driver, linked below, is the current replacement and runs on the batteries you already own.