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Does anyone know how to make a Dyson work

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Popstarrrrr · 09/01/2022 15:31

I hate this vacuum with a passion. I'm not particularly cleaning minded and what can be done in 20 mins takes for fucking ever with this wankstain of a machine.

It's a V6 animal. The brushes will spin for 5 seconds and then stop. I've emptied it, opened the brush compartment and pulled out the hairs, I've dusted off the connections and no fucking change.

It's been doing it for a couple of weeks now and I just want to clean my house properly. The bastard is a few years old but in the first two years it was barely used as one of my parents 3 vacuum cleaners. My old Tesco vacuum, which I chucked when I got this, lasted over 10 years.

Help! How do I make this arsehole work?? I'm actually really frustrated, irrationally angry and cursing out an inaminate object.

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HumourReplacementTherapy · 09/01/2022 15:32

Have you cleaned the filter?

MustDust · 09/01/2022 15:34

When did you last wash the filter? My dyson cordless gets pissy when the filter isn't clean.

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Popstarrrrr · 09/01/2022 15:34

@HumourReplacementTherapy

Have you cleaned the filter?
Yep, done that too
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accentdusoleil · 09/01/2022 15:35

Get it serviced . Cost me £15 and worked like a dream after

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Popstarrrrr · 09/01/2022 15:36

@MustDust

When did you last wash the filter? My dyson cordless gets pissy when the filter isn't clean.
I washed the filter a couple of weeks ago when this crap started, but no harm me trying again.
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Popstarrrrr · 09/01/2022 15:38

@accentdusoleil

Get it serviced . Cost me £15 and worked like a dream after
Hmm! Maybe be a silly question but where and who does this? £15 sounds brilliant. I'd probably pay more to save my sanity.
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BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 09/01/2022 15:42

Is it the battery no longer charging? We had one of those and the battery conked out after a while - maybe 2 years, possibly less. They're expensive to replace so we chucked it and got a Shark. I don't like it, but it was quite cheap and goes as long as you keep the filters clean.

Blinkingbatshit · 09/01/2022 15:45

I’ve been through so many dysons🙈….somehow I always think it’ll be better next time, it never is. My most recent mistake was the Uber expensive cordless one - it’s total crap…on hard floors it just throws stuff around rather than suck it up😡

LadyOfTheFlowers · 09/01/2022 15:45

I have similar frustrations with a shitty Shark pet hair upright thing. It gets jammed (with hair) every 5 minutes and despite being well maintained has nowhere near as much suction as it had a year ago - it's 2 years old Hmm

Notbeforemycoffeeplease · 09/01/2022 15:49

Not helpful (sorry OP) but may I join in with the venting too - I have had Dyson vacuum cleaners over the past several years and absolutely each and every one has been a piece of garbage. I look after my things and clean/ maintain them as per the instructions (all our other electrical purchases last us years and years) but without fail each and everyone vacuum cleaner has started off well with its fancy roller ball bla bla blaaaaaa technology and then just been rubbish after a year. I know most swear by Dyson but from my experience they are effing awful. Not buying again.

MaizeAmaze · 09/01/2022 15:52

Bin it and buy a corded one. The batteries in them aren't designed to vacuum whole house, just spot clean.

BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 09/01/2022 15:55

I have similar frustrations with a shitty Shark pet hair upright thing. It gets jammed (with hair) every 5 minutes and despite being well maintained has nowhere near as much suction as it had a year ago - it's 2 years old

This is the type I have. Have you done your back in carrying it upstairs and sustained a fractured foot from it falling over onto it yet? 😆

God, I hate it so much. Not as much as I hated the Dyson though. Mil had a small upright Dyson for her flat. I swear it never sucked a thing up in its entire life. It had the power of a clapped out electric toothbrush 😂

Floralnomad · 09/01/2022 15:57

There is more than 1 filter usually , Google the manual online and check you’ve cleaned everything .

SiennaSienna · 09/01/2022 15:57

If it's the battery, you can buy an off-brand battery on Amazon to fit a Dyson. Works like a charm and stays charged for hours.

neonjumper · 09/01/2022 16:03

Switch the Max button off ... it's located

Does anyone know how to make a Dyson work
sunshinesupermum · 09/01/2022 16:06

Why do you all keep buying Dysons? There are numerous good vacuum cleaners on the market at far better prices. Mine is an AEG cordless.

123rd · 09/01/2022 16:08

I hate my Dyson- can't wait for it to fall over yet again and hopefully the next time it will be fatal -for the machine obviously -not a family member !!

Houseplantmad · 09/01/2022 16:13

I'm a once only Dyson cordless upright owner and it was shit. I'm so happy to go back to my Miele pull along hoover. It actually sucks up rubbish etc and cleans the carpet. What a novelty.

Once Dyson, never again.

ItsJustTheOneSwanActually · 09/01/2022 16:13

The motor in the head could be on the way out. Might be able to get a replacement online

NeverDropYourMooncup · 09/01/2022 16:15

I didn't mind my DC09 Animal even though I had to unscrew the brush bar compartment every time I used it (longhaired redheaded children moult more than 3 cats and a dog combined, apparently) and got into a routine of 1 use, wash the filter, put in a spare and it weighed a ton - but when that failed, I went through about 5 other vacuum cleaners that brought me to rage with their lack of suction, filters, bags, no bags, blocking, jamming and general shitness.

I finally bought a bagless Miele. Result - clean floors, clean carpets, no hassle - and happily missed the constant drip drip of internet influencers all gifted their Dysons and Sharks from about a year later.

TheGriffle · 09/01/2022 16:19

We bought a Dyson. Thought it would answer all our hoovering needs. It’s utter shit. Like a previous poster, on hard floors it just flings crap around the room, doesn’t actually hoover it up. On carpet, it glides over the top and shouts that it’s blocked every 3 minutes.

Bought a shark and that beast filled with so much dust and grub when I hoovered the living room it was embarrassingly despite a daily dyson hoovering.

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Popstarrrrr · 09/01/2022 16:23

Thanks everyone. I've had a cup of tea and feel far less murderous.

It looks like I need to clean out the filters better maybe. I'll look online.

I'm also a bit pissed because my parents gave me both a Henry and the Dyson. As I have a 3 storey house with little storage, I gave the Henry to my cousin and kept the Dyson. My cousin is loving the Henry...

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islaviolent · 09/01/2022 16:28

Mines the same , keeps cutting out , cleaned the filters but also that little bit at the bottom where the roller is a nightmare and keeps clogging up and stopping it working . If there a blockage anywhere it won't work right. But also giving the top filter a rinse helped .

When this finally dies I will be getting something else.

DahliaMacNamara · 09/01/2022 16:29

It's no help to OP, but I refuse to buy a vacuum cleaner that repeatedly creates extra work for me. I don't mind clearing blockages and cleaning odd bits now and again, but any prima donna huffing about a bit of dust getting into the filter can fuck off.

rainbowplease · 09/01/2022 16:30

My dyson did this today, filter was clean so couldn't work it out. Turns out the tube was blocked with needles from the Christmas tree - have you checked yours?