Dyson Piston

[centralsweeper63]

No, we don't really buy Dyson. If a user accidentally breaks it or their normal use wears it down, the product is not fit for purpose. If I use a Dyson in the same way as a Kirby (just an example) and the Dyson lasts 4 years and the Kirby lasts 25, the Kirby is better made. Products should fit the user, not the other way around.

 

[huskyvacs]

It's because you guys are not using and maintaining those machines good enough. Most of the breaking are mostly by accidents. The rest are abuse and neglect, as @Vacuum Facts called out on.

There's Dysons in museums that break sitting on the pedestals. Everything is made to last the same length of time as the warranty and no more. The plastic starts rotting after 10 years. The circuit boards are made from the lowest common bidder, and have so many cycles before a capacitor or a relay fails. Same for battery packs that swell up and catch fire. Nothing on a Dyson is made to last. Most of the Dysons I have are older than you, and every single one of them has a part that fails just since the last time I turned it off. Many other collectors can tell you the same.

here's a forum from 2005;

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/do-dyson-vacuums-suck.83151/

 

[Absolute Rainbow]

There's Dysons in museums that break sitting on the pedestals. Everything is made to last the same length of time as the warranty and no more. The plastic starts rotting after 10 years. The circuit boards are made from the lowest common bidder, and have so many cycles before a capacitor or a relay fails. Same for battery packs that swell up and catch fire. Nothing on a Dyson is made to last. Most of the Dysons I have are older than you, and every single one of them has a part that fails just since the last time I turned it off. Many other collectors can tell you the same.

here's a forum from 2005;

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/do-dyson-vacuums-suck.83151/

Shall include the... you guessed it, cordless vacuums!

By the time existing flagships break down (5-10 years from purchase), you'll probably have saved enough money to buy another.

 

[Follettolover]

I tested this with 60 cm long synthetic hair with an more or less realistic amount of hair and the v16 head was not perfect (it also had this build up ath the side not beeing removed anymore and floating arround) but did much much better compared to the gen5 head with the tested hair lenght and amount (which tangles alot of the hair). I will upload some more stuff soon.
And tbh - even in this totally unrealistic scenario (i have even no barber ever seen vacuuming up this amount of hair, they always sweep it manually) used for your quoted testing (i found the video) it worked at the end but not as fast as the cutting head of the compared dreame (question of longterm wear of the cutting blades).

I will always love James Dyson's continuous desire to introduce new ways of building a product, his study is sincere and passionate despite being such a famous company, but seeing that video I put where Dyson with a brush designed for hair failed and shark with a brush clearly inspired by fluffy won, for me was a very serious failure..

If you saw in the quoted video in the end the reviewer found out that the Dyson brush spit out all that tangle of hair without vacuuming it, very very bad

(Of course it's a very extreme test, but it's also for dreame who won the challenge anyway)

 

[Follettolover]

Well, here's an article about the ergonomics of Dyson cordless vacuums. Basically, the brand wants their products to be as ergonomic as possible without sacrificing any durability whatsoever. This is why ergonomics seem to be a mixed bag for Dyson cordless.

Dyson has always preferred function over design and this is what makes it a well-built good product, Dyson vacuum cleaners have never been beautiful to look at but they have always been functional and this makes them recognizable and iconic, aesthetics must always be based on usability and not vice versa, it is one of the fundamental principles in design and architecture schools, that is why many buildings have begun to be less and less decorated and opulent after the 1920s and especially after the Bauhaus and the Avant-garde;

Probably the choice to make the new brush of the v16 arrow was a gamble but it is the best solution for cliffs its function against the hair and to accommodate the conical rollers ensuring a sealed closure, nothing is left to chance but you always have to compromise in the design if you want a good product