Dyson DC40 vacuum cleaner faulty

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You can't buy a decent new vacuum cleaner for under £100. If you do, they'll be gutless and last only a year or two.
Get a refurb'd DC07 for about £100 and it will last for years with proper filter maintenance (it's lack of regular filter cleaning that kills most Dysons before their time).

Avoriaz

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Well, they 'cost' £70 (ebay) - £80 (Dyson direct) - appropriating a 'worth' of roughly what they cost.

Considering I would have needed to buy a new vac, the 'worth' was greater than the cost of the part to me.

Before my dyson, i had gone through a vac a year. My initial outlay is still better value than buying cheap cleaners that break. If I get a few more years out of it, then I'll be very happy. Next time, I'll be getting one from Costco so I can return 'for new' if it breaks.

What on earth are you doing to them?

Our vacuum cleaner is a Hoover Pure Power. It is about 15 years old and spent its first few years in a business that we owned where it was used and probably abused every day.

It still works perfectly.

In that time I have spent £3 on a replacement part that broke through my rough handling plus the costs of the paper bags that it needs. We may get through about £1 to £2 per year on them as we buy generic versions.

BuntyB

wealdroam wrote: »

I have a DC40 and yours appears to be working in the same way as mine.

Having switched it on with the ON/OFF button, you then need to pull the handle back out of the vertical position before the brush bar rotates.

This working as it should.

A wee bigger look on the internet is needed.

Page 8 of the Operating Manual shipped with the product says (amongst other things):

The brush bar wouldn't spin at all, upright or tilted and ready to push. Just back from Argos where they tested it and couldn't get it to spin either so full refund.

Back to the drawing board

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Avoriaz wrote: »

What on earth are you doing to them?

Our vacuum cleaner is a Hoover Pure Power. It is about 15 years old and spent its first few years in a business that we owned where it was used and probably abused every day.

It still works perfectly.

In that time I have spent £3 on a replacement part that broke through my rough handling plus the costs of the paper bags that it needs. We may get through about £1 to £2 per year on them as we buy generic versions.

Let me just time travel back to the days when home electrical weren't always cheaply made trash. I'll bring my VCR with me.

I had two different brands of 'sub-£100' vacuum cleaners prior to my dyson. Both packed in after about a year. My current

Your Hoover Pure power is likely based around a simpler technology. Fewer moving parts. Filters ect. Good for you. I'm sure it'll last another 10 years.

Avoriaz

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Let me just time travel back to the days when home electrical weren't always cheaply made trash. I'll bring my VCR with me.

I had two different brands of 'sub-£100' vacuum cleaners prior to my dyson. Both packed in after about a year. My current

Your Hoover Pure power is likely based around a simpler technology. Fewer moving parts. Filters ect. Good for you. I'm sure it'll last another 10 years.

If it doesn't we have a spare vacuum cleaner.

A few years ago I bought a guitar on eBay. The seller was also selling an almost brand new Electrolux vacuum cleaner so I bid on that too. I won that auction for £6.

Why pay several hundred pounds for a Dyson when you can buy a nearly new vacuum cleaner for only a few pounds?

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Because I wanted a small, lightweight vac, that didn't need consumables, and also had the power of a larger cleaner. I was also fed up with cheap ones breaking on me