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Thread Number: 24264
New Dirt Devil vacuums- Poor quality! |
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| Post# 271653 3/13/2014 at 11:42 (3,689 days old) by dustin (Jackson, MI) | ||
I am up visiting friends, and the last time they came to our house to visit, they had mentioned tbey had bought a new vacuum (I had given them a Eureka F&G style a few years ago), and they hated buying bags. They weren't sure what brand what it was "it's red". Well, tuesday, I found out it was a new Dirt Devil Breeze. I was volunteered to replace the belt (It's only a couple months old) but It "wouldn't pick anything up and just started smoking". My first observation was that it is VERY lightweight and flimsy. I was afraid that I was going to break something just trying to stretch the belt in place. I got the belt on and had to give it a run- not as noisy as Dirt Devils have been in the past, but very "whiny" It seemed to do ok on low pile carpet, But I moved to another part of the house with thicker carpet, and it really didn't impress me. It was not pulling into the carpet at all, so I checked the suction at the hose-pretty weak. I decided it was probably time to clean the filters, which were located under the dirt bin. One thin foam pad over a pleated filter which were about 3"x3". Pretty dusty, and hard to get the dust out. I put it all back together, and tried it again- still not a whole lot of suction, but it had picked up quite a bit of dog/cat hair and carpet fuzz, but not much sand at all. It just seemed so fragile, and literally skated over the carpet, I don't figure it will last over a year. I made the comment I would keep the Eureka for when the new one died. I had a Dirt Devil Breeze before, but the previous version, and truthfully it wasn't bad. Quality is definitely going downhill.
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| Post# 271897 , Reply# 1 3/14/2014 at 19:20 (3,688 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
The Quality! It's a shame , isn't it? Businesses boarding up their American factories, out-sourcing to China and what-not to "save money". What company hasn't done this? America was an industrial super-power years ago. things were built with pride and quality, and then maintained by their owners to last the stand of time.
I'd love to wake up tomorrow and have it all back, the quality, the jobs, the life-style, who wouldn't?
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| Post# 271898 , Reply# 2 3/14/2014 at 19:22 (3,688 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 271903 , Reply# 3 3/14/2014 at 19:50 (3,688 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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Suck-o-lux guy- It worked a WORLD of better! that was a fun time back then, too! America was the world's highest standard of living, now look! People are getting lazy, some would rather gain pounds from all the fast-food junk instead of putting in the effort for a home cooked meal. Imagine, Farther coming home from work, Mother putting that well-nade meal on the table, everyone getting together to spend time together! Now Teens would rather just take the food to their room and watch T.V or do whatever a "snap chat" is. My phone has a DIAL, That you TURN to DIAL out a number, my camera uses film I have developed at the pharmacy, I play my music from records! I WOULDN'T play music from a "Compact Disk", or a "CD" as they call it now. I wouldn't take a picture from my phone to plaster all over Facebook (Although I'd LOVE to see a Rotary phone take a photograph!).
Yes, pretty Rant-ish. But you look back at how things were, and you'll see that not ONLY was the quality of our products were excellent, but the EVERYTHING was "more excellent". | ||
| Post# 271908 , Reply# 4 3/14/2014 at 20:08 (3,688 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 271916 , Reply# 6 3/14/2014 at 21:58 (3,688 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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yes I may just be a junior member, but I'm old in spirit! I'm nearly a walking encyclopedia, I could tell you every model of Kirby from the C to the sentria II, what colors and styles the 1961 DeSoto came in ( my dream car, by the way. DeSoto's very last model of car, only made to use up t the 7 million dollars of parts Chrysler had on hand. Your choice of black or white, 2 doors or 4). How much air conditioning was as an option, tell the tales of W.T Lance and Montgomery ward. Believe you me, I was born in the wrong era!
Britain does not sound well in the vacuum world, but I'm afraid out own shops are also not taking well to the cheap WAL-MART style of life. Remember having to replace tubes in your tv set? If you didn't know how to, you would call a repair man. You would have to buy a whole new tv to fix one of these new LCD things! Used too you could buy tubes from the pharmacy. It I would never have that,I love my faithful RCA and KTV CRT sets! Quality that had been serving me well for years! | ||
| Post# 271923 , Reply# 8 3/14/2014 at 22:20 (3,688 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 271928 , Reply# 9 3/14/2014 at 22:54 (3,688 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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analog! I see,I run cable trough my CRT televisions. There's always converter boxes if the need for an over-air transmissions receiving protocol should arise.I'm watching the KTV right now, beautiful pictures quality for 1986! Obsolete, ha! I use a Smith_corona typewriter for nearly all my word Processing needs, I'm lucky there's still an old shop downtown that sells ribbons.I AM obsolete..... | ||
| Post# 271930 , Reply# 10 3/15/2014 at 00:12 (3,688 days old) by dustin (Jackson, MI) | ||
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I enjoy new technology as much as anyone, but I can see the difference between quality and junk, and appreciate Made in the USA quality. I don't ever see the quality of new vacuums ever improving, we are living in a throw away society- It quits picking up, toss it to the curb and buy another one. Companies don't want you to repair vacuums, whether it be because the parts simply aren't available, or the parts cost more than the whole machine did new.
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| Post# 271950 , Reply# 11 3/15/2014 at 07:33 (3,687 days old) by ornery (Northeast Ohio) | ||
Blame Consumers
This plastic, disposable crap is what consumers want. When Royal only built quality, commercial grade products, their sales were under $5 million as of 1981. Selling cheap, flimsy, plastic units boosted sales to approximately $408 million in 2000. Only reason they can sell so much is because consumers are willing to buy them. Then, they lament the bygone days of "quality". No sympathy here. Royal still builds quality units if you're willing to pay for them.
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