Ideas on how to fix poorly Dyson?

Gingham_Ribbon

The thick cable for our Dyson attachments has kind of stretched and torn. It's unusable and it's not one of the spare parts they do on the site. It seemed expensive for a dyson engineer to come out but don't want to fork out on a new one.

Speed is of the essense really as we have 3 cats and need the attachment to vac the furniture. It's a daily task and it broke yesterday.

Does anyone have any suggestions? The upright bit works fine.

My thoughts are along the lines of either:

a) fix it if anyone knows how
b) get a little hand held one for the furniture if anyone can suggest one that's good at picking up pet hair.

Many thanks for reading this. If I tell you that, since Christmas the following things have broken in our household: 2 pairs of glasses, the car, washing machine, microwave, toaster, stereo, video, camera, the chimney, the stair carpet got threadbare, the computer, the phone, the tv cabinet, my mobile and last week I lost my husband's mobile, you can see why I'm keen not to buy a new one. :rolleyes:

Thank goodness for this site. I've managed to repair, replace on good deals and do without various of these things. I think before I had my moneysaver head on I'd have had it (my head) firmly in the sand. :eek:

Cagey

Can`t think of a thick cable Gingham. I assume you mean hose ??.seeing as you say upright part is still working.

derrick

There is a thread HERE on Dyson that may help.

Also some phone numbers in place of 0870
01666 827200 General info
01666 827272 Customer Service Spares

Gingham_Ribbon

Thanks all. I meant the thick cable at the back that is in the handle. Didn't know it was called a hose!

Hubbie has fixed it. Apparently, Dyson's fab engineering has done it again. It was a case of cutting off the broken bit and screwing it back in I think. It's not attatched to any of the electric cables so it seems fine.

I left it to him as I'm busy stripping paint off the banisters!

helen21_2

Hi

Is this what you looking for -

http://www.yourspares.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl?fid=1090011215&cgifunction=form


helen21

Gingham_Ribbon

YES! Well done. I've put the link in my favourites for when it goes completely. I love this site!

Thanks!

helen21_2

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

YES! Well done. I've put the link in my favourites for when it goes completely. I love this site!

Thanks!

Your welcome, had it in my favourites as searched high and low for cheapest part as mothers went the other week, so lucky still had it in favourites!!

helen21

Filthy_Luka

A friend of mine had problems with their Dyson, which was a few years old, he was surprised to learn that any repair will be carried out by Dyson for £35 as part of its warrantee or something like that anyhow

ohreally

helen21 wrote:

Hi

Is this what you looking for -

http://www.yourspares.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl?fid=1090011215&cgifunction=form


helen21

£7+del...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43526&item=4395317557&rd=1

Malestrom

ohreally wrote:

£7+del...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43526&item=4395317557&rd=1

Yep, Ebay is great for Dyson bits. Just bought a hose, filters and wand for our old DC01. No point buying new when twenty quid will keep her going for at least another 12 months.

Gingham_Ribbon

Ah well, finally, the hose that we repaired now comes out every time I use it, the attachments fall off, it's not sucking properly, despite changing filters etc and now I've hoovered up the cable and it's gone almost right through!

Maybe it's time for a new one. Thanks for keeping it going a bit longer for me everyone!