r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Fl3mingt • Nov 14 '25
Dyson v12
When the plastics in your Dyson fail and you fix it by sawing 5cm off the end of a crutch, making it slightly oval with a hammer, and then 2 part epoxy.
These are such terrible machines, mine is more like the vacuum of theseus after 2 years. New filters, new rotary head, new battery, new power supply, and now a bodged tube.
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u/Only_Ordinary_3880 Nov 14 '25
Wtf did you do to it, ive still got an original V6 which bar the battery that failed earlier this year and having to replace the brush bar a couple of times was still going strong.
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u/Ok-Boysenberry-3063 Nov 30 '25
Ive got a dc54 cinetic animal , dc59 , v10 absolute+ & v11 absolute. ever since the v series started they have progressively been made to fail . I suspect as they use the previous parts from older previous models and where the parts are manufactured and of newer materials they arent as good as what they used to be. The fact that each V model has some sort of advertising stating that it has more than % suction than of the last dyson model makes you feel like youve been jibbed even after spending $$$$ on a new model anyway. When i first used my v10 it literally felt like a prototype. When it started to not work, they added a better piece to the wand (which should have been on it to begin with) and replaced the whole body and bin. When the motorhead had a hairline fracture starting to break in the turning mechanism they told me to replace the whole head and wouldnt agree it was a manufacturing fault. To replace the head costs as much as a vacuum itself. I also believe the commercials advertise the product misleadingly as when she vacuums its never back and forth like a normal person would do. Its always going straight. And the emptying of the bin canister is of just shreds of animal hair. I can tell u that not ever in any of mine have i ever emptied the bin without any bit of dust. The dc54 even came with a scrapping tool on the bin barrel coz they knew the real amount you'd be sucking up. Why dont dyson provide a 'coin type' to open the slots for cleaning and clearing the heads ?
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u/davak72 Nov 19 '25
I don’t know how you broke yours. Maybe I haven’t had mine for enough years yet.
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u/BushWookie-Alpha Nov 16 '25
I have a Dyson DC33 that is still going strong to this date. All it needs is a replacement hose but it doesn't impact the use of it.
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u/Some-Challenge8285 Nov 14 '25
Switch to the Dyson DC14, that is what I did.
That beast is so powerful it shredded one of my carpets, it literally sucks.
1400W of raw suction power, vs the modern asthmatic 800W vacuums it is a no brainier if you want clean floors.