This is honestly just a bit of a rant as my Dyson V10 has broken again…. This is what has broken in the last year:
- trigger guard snapped
- battery died
- head pivot broken
- empty-mechanism snapped
- filter showing clogged after cleaning, needed a new filter.
Every replacement is exorbitantly expensive, and requires as complicated replacement procedure as possible. A battery that consists of seven 18650 cells which should cost ~£20 to replace is £90! You can’t replace the cells as the unit is plastic welded together.
You know what isn’t broken and has never broken; my 40 year old Sebo which is now been promoted from ‘upstairs vacuum’ to ‘primary vacuum’
I mean, that’s survivor bias…
Lots of those had manufacturing faults 40 years ago. The ones still hanging around are the ones that didn’t have flaws.
But for the Dyson, that’s just how capitalism works.
The company has to always make percent profit increase, at a certain point you only get that by cutting manufacturing/materials.
Like, plenty of 20 years old Dyson’s kicking around, but a brand new one is gonna be more likely to break because they’re cutting more corners today.
You do have a point… but this Dyson is my ~5th I think in the last 20 years, I think the motor went on my first one, then the on button/control board failed on the next, after we are into the battery era and I still have them but they are now ‘garage vacuums’ where genuine batteries are no longer available but they share a cheap eBay battery which needs replacing again.
Thinking back I think I needed to replace a roller belt on the Sebo about 15 years ago, for around £2 from a shop in town. Given the vacuum was probably 25 years old at that point impressive the parts are available and so cheap.
That’s a bit on you, after your third why did you keep going? I’ve got the same Dyson I’ve had for 15 years, the plastic is definitely getting fragile. I won’t buy another when this one goes.
That is a fair assumption but I only bought the first two… the other three were “joint” purchases, where I came home to a new vacuum, and phrases like, “I can’t carry the old one up the stairs”, “we needed a new one, and this is purple!”, “the old one doesn’t get the dog hair up properly, and this one has an Animal head” etc.
That totally makes a huge difference…I was really disappointing thinking…“man my plastic is brittle, but now they break every 8 months.”
I mean that’s still on you for not establishing never buying a Dyson again. I always talk about this stuff with family/friends at some point when I get frustrated with current tools. Surely there’s better out there, and someone knows about it.
I’d never buy one because they’re exorbitant, and I can tell from touching one the plastic is brittle (and clear plastics seem to always be less flexible than colored plastics).
The price alone is insane. $500 for a vacuum? I can buy five of my current vac for that price. There’s no way it works 5 times better, it’s a vacuum.
The Dyson is just the 21st century equivalent of the Rainbow from the 1970’s. (Wow, apparently people are still sucker’s for the Rainbow).
That’s fair, I’ve told her now… no more surprise Dysons. Just thinking though for the ~£500 a new one would cost I could buy a lathe, and enough tooling, titanium, glass Fiber reinforced plastic etc to remake every failure prone component.