Kirby sentria

[kirbymodel2c]

True

That also true about vac repairshops. I know another vac repair shop where they have done a few questionable things. Once they had a sebo X4 extra in and one of the LED's would not go out. I can't remember the exact LED but instead of sorting the problem he just cut one of the connections so it would not light up no more.
He never never repaired the problem. Just pretended he had when the custmer came back to collect it.

I was before I opened my own shop going to take over a exsiting vac shop.
They was friends with the other vac owner shop in question.
So I got to hear about various misdemeanors they use to do.

James)

 

[twocvbloke]

Well, that's just downright fraud, and the work of "Roger the Bodger", fixing the fault by disabling what's indicating said fault and charging an arm and a leg for the privilege... :&#92

I have heard that those X series Sebos suffer from the auto-height adjuster burning out, with a little "redneck engineering" though they could be removed and made to be "manual"....

 

[gsheen]

I am always amazed, we sell new vacs aswell as repairing vacuums and offer customers a trade inn on there old machine , which is why I have so many old vacuums. almost every week we get a customer coming to buy a new vacuum because the repair shop in her area told her her machine was not worth fixing , I take it into my workshop and normally fix it in minutes and ive it back to the customer working.


 


I had a sebo x2 comercial vacuum in for repair a week  ago, the circuit board had burnt out and sebo wanted £ 60.00 for it , My wife went to a local electronic components company and was able to buy ever part on the circuit board for way under £1.00 I soidered in the new pieces and sent it back to the customer  

 

[tolivac]

The vacuums I encountered that picked up the mouse and snake-When I was selling TriStars-a lady traded in her Kirby G3 to a TriStar-when cleaning it out-the machine was clogged-cause-debris wrapped around a dead baby snake in the MiniEmptor.snake was undamaged-surprized he wasn't chopped up going thru the fan.Mouse vacuum-came into the vacuum shop-marked "clogged and smells"Machine was a Sanitaire used by one of the local restaurants-Bag intake clogged-from half a mouse.Other half inside the fancase.
for Sebos-the dealer out here just replaces the board in question.He doesn't want to mess with the parts on the board.Most of the time its a warrantee repair.Same with Meile.the boards he sends back to the factory.
I think DTD vacuum sellors will still be around.Don't see it going away.I think DTD brands like Kirby(Only UPRIGHT vac sold DTD)Filter Queen,Rainbow,'Lux,and Tristar will always be around.You have to admit-the customer can TRUELY see what the vacuum will do under the conditions in his home.Hard to do with a vacuum dem
oed-and a "self one" at that at a store-esp a "big Box" store where there is only bare floor to try the vacuum on.And the DTD salesman usually knows his product better than many stores.Of course there is exception to true Vacuum stores.

 

[kirbymodel2c]

yep..

Very true about big brand stores and even big brand electrical retailer.
Quiet often the staff don't know much about what there selling.
Me and my ex a few years ago went to a big electrical retailer for a microwave combi oven for his parents. When we asked staff about questions about various models they just read the same info we had just read that was under the display model.

Mind you customers can equally tell porky pies and not think for them selfs.
I had one customer buy a recon dyson dc07.
About 3/4 months later he can back in saying it had just stopped working and he was not very happy with it breaking under guarantee. He said he had not done nothing to it. Anyway I took it apart and looked at it. What he had done was wash the pre motor filter and put it back wet and not let it dry. The motor was wet...
As a good will gesture I put a new motor in it and cleanned it all out but told him clearly that if he did it again he would be charged for the repair. I even told him when he bought it to clean and wash the the filter regular and to only put the motor filter back once it is dry etc etc.

I'm sure it goes in one ear and out the other....

James)

 

[gsheen]

we get so many bagles vacuums in with blown motors as the customer has just washed the filter and put in back in wet, and they look so <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">surprised </span></span>when you tell them they need to let the filter dry !

 

[tolivac]

the few times I dealt with Dysons in my collection--instead of washing the "reusable" filter-just replace it-its inexpensive enough.I just don't think you are going to wash all of the fine dust from it.If you do wash them-get two-a clean DRY one in the machine and the other being cleaned and drying.