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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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You do have a point… but this Dyson is my ~5th I think in the last 20 years, I think the motor went on my first one, then the on button/control board failed on the next, after we are into the battery era and I still have them but they are now ‘garage vacuums’ where genuine batteries are no longer available but they share a cheap eBay battery which needs replacing again.
Thinking back I think I needed to replace a roller belt on the Sebo about 15 years ago, for around £2 from a shop in town. Given the vacuum was probably 25 years old at that point impressive the parts are available and so cheap.
That is a fair assumption but I only bought the first two… the other three were “joint” purchases, where I came home to a new vacuum, and phrases like, “I can’t carry the old one up the stairs”, “we needed a new one, and this is purple!”, “the old one doesn’t get the dog hair up properly, and this one has an Animal head” etc.
I mean that's still on you for not establishing never buying a Dyson again. I always talk about this stuff with family/friends at some point when I get frustrated with current tools. Surely there's better out there, and someone knows about it.
I'd never buy one because they're exorbitant, and I can tell from touching one the plastic is brittle (and clear plastics seem to always be less flexible than colored plastics).
The price alone is insane. $500 for a vacuum? I can buy five of my current vac for that price. There's no way it works 5 times better, it's a vacuum.
The Dyson is just the 21st century equivalent of the Rainbow from the 1970's. (Wow, apparently people are still sucker's for the Rainbow).
That’s fair, I’ve told her now… no more surprise Dysons. Just thinking though for the ~£500 a new one would cost I could buy a lathe, and enough tooling, titanium, glass Fiber reinforced plastic etc to remake every failure prone component.