Dyson dc54

[bagintheback]

I'm excited to see that this technology at least exists. Dyson has been misleading the public for almost 20 years now touting their design never looses suction, when in fact it does since the pre-motor filter clogs fairly easily. Now that issue is out of the equation, and they have a product worth selling. My one concern are those flexible cyclones. If any sort of moisture gets inside them, all the dust will turn to mud, preventing any oscillation and clogging the entire system. 

 

[hi-loswitch98]

vintagerepairer, you are spot on.

One Vacuum I don't get is the Miele S8 UniQ. It costs £480 but as far as I can see it has a Spotlight handle, an illuminated Parking System (which I see no need for), a Silence Setting (there are quite a few vacuums that are silent you can buy cheaper), there is also a Velvet Finishing (but I doubt many would notice) & there Automatic Power Controls.

For £480 you don't get any additional floor heads, or tools, just in my opinion a Vacuum that does cost a fair bit than what it should do. Considering the second cheapest Miele on John Lewis is the Miele S8330 for £289.95 & that includes a Turbo Nozzle, Parquet Head & some features like the UniQ such as the Silence Setting.

 

[sebo_fan]

Well lets face it, with most of Essex people with their bling, the S8 UniQ is fit for people who like to splash out money on the highest model available.

The S8 UniQ isn't your every day run of the mill vacuum cleaner designed for the masses. How can one spend that much for a suction only vacuum cleaner? Well people are prepared to pay - in the same way they are prepared to pay more for a premium brand any way.

The same kind of thought has for many years, given the average buyer the question of how the SEBO X is so expensive when it uses bags. They don't realise what that vacuum cleaner does in terms of its actual usage and cleaning performance.

 

[hi-loswitch98]

I don't see the point myself, a Vacuum Cleaner is an appliance to clean your home, it's not a fashion accessory.

 

[keiththomas]

My View a total Rip off and Dyson is becoming complacent. This could be the beginning of the end. Just the same ideas but paying through the noise. After all TVs Etc go down with prices oh but not Dyson. The most I ll spend is £150.00

 

[dys0nb0y]

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/home-a...-vacuum-cleaner-nickel-blue-21932107-pdt.html

 

[hi-loswitch98]

Even still £351 is a LOT of money.

 

[madabouthoovers]

Ah, so knocking £100 "off" already, a clever little marketing ploy to get you to dash out and buy one. Except they never keep any in stock and you have to wait while they get one in from Dyson - AFTER you have paid online for it.


Total con.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Well in all of this, what confuses me most is when so very many Dyson owners never cleaned the filters at all, and by that I mean ever, I have to question who the target consumer is for this new self-cleaning filter model? If anything, people who don't maintain the filters and do keep using the cleaner until it sucks no more were, as I saw it, great news for Dyson, as these people would then go and buy a new cleaner.

 

[sebo_fan]

The target audience that perhaps Dyson is trying to pull in are those who feel that cleaning filters is preventing them from buying a Dyson again or new customers who have had to clean filters all the time to prolong the power - pity the prices can't be lowered because I feel that's the area Dyson is simply missing the point from producing.

In my opinion and experience, it doesn't matter that Dyson may well eliminate the need to clean filters - the shroud is still too thin where pet hair will still get stuck up the sides.

That last video in French shows the lady putting her hand into the centre of the filter which is pretty big but what about the thin sides where dust is likely to get clogged? Until Dyson makes a secondary mechanism that physically scrapes the top shrouds where the sides are concerned, thus pushing the dust or scraping off the thin sides to push down into the rest of the dirt at the bottom of the bin, you'll still be inclined to dip your hand into the bin area to remove dust, manually.

Though paper pleated based, the Morphy Richards Endurance bagless vac has an ingenious turn dial scraper that literally scrapes dust off the inner shroud. It doesn't make it completely clean though but at least the bits you'd be inclined to pick off has been scraped off and allowed to fall down. Bosch also have a similar mechanism but Im not sure if it is offered on their latest bagless cylinder vacs..

In short, whilst a self cleaning filter is all very well, its about time Dyson moved on with answering other concerns that the existing dust bin design points to.

 

[rolls_rapide]

"Cinetic" cyclone tips.

I wonder how long it will take for the cyclones' rubbery tips to split, tear, develop snags, etc.

Then the problems begin.

Oh, and I notice that the Dyson Digital Motor has not made it to the DC54. I wonder what happened there?

As others have mentioned... the price! Which planet are Dyson living on? Nobody I know would even consider spending that amount.

 

[ultraperformer]

Dyson cyclones are already very efficient the filters in mine stay very clean for a long time so it's hardly a laborious chore as it is! That said in a few years when they are reduced and better tested I might get one but never at that RRP! I suppose we will see a new version with the digital motor in the future maybe even more expensive than this!