Customer Rating: 
Summary: How could you go wrong for FOUR bucks?
Comment: For 4 bucks, this product is great. It is easy to install and holds my tools. Be warned that the tools may get a little hotter than you expect, but once the BBQ cools off from its initial super hot phase (the first 15 minutes) it works very well. I find that it works better with tools that have the little leather rope to hang them by. This tool is a must when I am grilling in a public area and don't really have a good place to put my tongs or spatula.
Again, for 4 bucks, you can't go wrong.
Also, it does NOT stop my lid from sealing (18 1/2 Gold).
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Weber product can't take the heat
Comment: Nice, neat place to hang my tools while cooking in my Weber kettle, but after about 6 months, the hooks holding the tools had bent down from the hook shape to an L shape from the heat. Weber, you should use more heat resistant metal for a piece of equipment meant to hang on the side of a grill.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Somewhat useful, but needs improvement.
Comment: This item is cheap enough that if you have a Weber kettle, it will probably be worth it to get one. I like mine, but it could definitely be engineered better.
The Good:
1) Convenient place to hang your tools.
2) Cheap as can be, yet constructed of decent quality steel.
3) Holds 4 items, when 3 is probably the most I've ever used at one grilling.
The Bad:
1) Any plastic trim on your handles of your tools will likely melt since it sits right next to the heat. Try to keep this away from your starter pile. The same problem can make your tools hot to handle (even my wood handled ones got hot to the touch!)
2) It comes off far too easily when tools get hung up, the kettle is moved, or the lid bumps it too hard. Weber should engineer this to actually "clip" on instead of simply sliding on. I haven't tried clamping down the metal to make it grip better, yet. That may help, but the metal hangers seem too short to lock on permanently.
3) The lid doesn't sit as tightly as it should.
4) The hooks are a bit too close together, so your tools bunch up a little. If it were a little wider it would also make it harder to bump off the grill.
It's not that tough to hook it back on when it falls, but it is annoying when it falls off mid-grill, dropping your clean tools on the ground.
Weber should design an add-on system for these grills. I see no reason why they couldn't add anchor points to the kettle, even simply extending the handle base to either side so adding on a clip like this or other things like condiment tray, etc. becomes simple. I can't believe it would cost that much to do this even on the basic models. It's a 3, but for the money, I'd recommend it anyway (especially for the MacGyver types).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice Idea
Comment: This was a nice idea, but it doesn't work to well if you have the lid holder. Whenever I take the lid out of the holder, the tool holder falls off. I don't really need it, because I have the perfomer which has a built in tool holder on the table, which I forgot about when I ordered this. The tool holder should have some kind of locking clamps on it so they will stay in place. I can see how they would interfere with the lid closing all the way if they are hung off the grill itself and imagine that they don't stay in place when the lid is taken off. I like having the extra set of tool holders so I think I am going to trying clamping them down on the lid holder with pliers.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: The idea here is nice - a little rack to hang your tongs and stuff on. However, the execution is bad, and it's just as easy to put tongs and things on the ground near the smoker.
Problems:
1. It's very hard to make the lid sit tightly with this in place. That results in loss of smoke and heat.
2. The rack doesn't stay on well. So when I pulled my tongs off, the whole rack came with them.
3. Storing tools that close to a hot surface is prone to singed fingers.
I plan on getting a little table to keep near my smoker, to hold tools, spare wood chips, thermometers, etc. That'll be more useful than this holder.
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