Old Dyson vacuum cleaner has lost its suction!

macman

If it's a 28C then the blockage will be in the throat or the duct hose: that's the pipe part under the cyclone bin.
With the bin off, you can remove the triangular cover held on by two crosshead screws. You can then prise of the flexible duct hose and either clear that, or the rigid tube downstream that it attaches to. Use a wire coathanger, old bottle brush or similar.
This is the narrowest point in the airflow on that model and they invariably block at that point.
If you have a model without a turbohead then they are intended for hard floors only: you need a turbohead for effective pickup on carpets. Aftermarket heads are available.

molerat

If it is not a blockage then likely a seal or filter.  The motors don't generally lose suction, the suction is blocked or escaping somewhere.  My antique DC01 still works fine.

akira181

dllive said:

Hi

Ive had my Dyson for years. Ive given it a couple of deep cleans over the years (taken it all apart, washed everything etc). But its recently lost its suction.

Is it worth taking it to a hardware shop(?) to get it fixed and made new again? Or should I chuck it and buy a new one? (I know, hardly "money saving"!!).

Thanks

if you want to stick with Dyson, I'd probably get it repaired. Although, in my experience, Dyson has been all looks over function for the last 4 or 5 years as the new ones are terrible.

The cordless ones don't have great suction, poor dust capacity, difficult to empty, gets blocked easily, awful battery life, and relatively fragile. I had the Dyson V5 which could barely pick up dirt and if you looked at it the wrong way, the battery would run out. My mother upgraded and gave me her V6, which literally snapped in half at the handle (only 3 years old). My mother upgraded to a V10, the battery life is much better at 35ish minutes (as long as you don't use max power, then it's only 8 minutes) but also unreliable as it has been replaced under warranty twice since then and is apparently playing up again just out of warranty.

I replaced my V6 with a corded cylinder Shark model and have been much happier with it. Yeah, it's not as mobile and slightly more difficult to store but it cleans the house much better and faster. No need to go over the same bits multiple times, doesn't run out of charge halfway through cleaning, easy to empty, good capacity, etc. Not to mention James Dyson is not a moral person worthy of your custom.