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 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.