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’
Most of the seal doesn’t matter though because the whole thing is under vacuum, so unless it’s so bad you’ve lost suction, the seal doesn’t have to be that accurate.
Only the seal between the filter and blower motor is what actually matters.
The only thing I’ve noticed about Dysons (and not what the marketing says) is that their motors are very well designed and powerful, especially for the size. We’re using a 15 year old hand me down, but the one that my mom replaced it with is already in a land fill somewhere, she had a Meile for a month, returned it and ended up with a Shark I think.