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Thread Number: 26941
Dyson DC24 Motor Problem |
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| Post# 301199 10/9/2014 at 15:27 (3,486 days old) by suctionselector (Leeds, England) | ||
 Hello.
I have recently sold a reconditioned Dyson DC03, and as a part exchange the buyer gave me their DC24, which had a brushroll fault. The fault was the brushroll itself was rattling quite badly, which made a loud noise and the whole brush unit shook about. However, I had kept the cleaner head from my gran's DC24 whoch I replaced the head on, so I got the brush and endcap from my gran's old cleaner head, and thankfully, now there is no rattle, and I'm glad I kept the old head with a broken motor.
However, upon using it with the brushroll repaired, I had noticed that it was indeed, very noisy, so much so that you couldn't hear the brush spinning. Oh dear. one of the reason's they had bought the DC03 instead of getting the DC24 repaired was they had recently moved to a bigger house, so the DC24 was impractical for the size of the house. However, at some point, I'm assuming that at some point they've vacuumed up plaster dust, as its all around where the motor filter sits, and also all around the cyclone unit, and in the top filter, so I'm assuming the motor has being killed by plaster dust.
So I have two options:
1) Source a new motor and replace it, however it appears to be a very difficult job, as it involves removing the ball, and getting inside it. From what I've read on the internet, it appears to be complicated, and I'm not sure how much the motor cost's, but I'm assuming it's not cheap to do, and may be time consuming.
2) Buy a second hand DC24 off eBay with a working motor, but with a broken brushroll motor, as I can swap over the brush from the one with the broken motor, and put it on the one with the working main motor. This means I can also put any broken parts on, from the one I currently have, as it doesn't appear to be too abused, I've managed to clean up most of the parts nicely.
So what option do you think I should go for, I'm considering Option 2 mostly, but the problem is waiting for one to appear broken locally. I would be prepared to spend a bit on one with a working motor, as I have a buyer who would be interested in a DC24.
Thanks in advance for the advice. I'll post pictures of it soon. It's an early one as it's an All Floors model instead of Multi Floor, and it has a lighter grey cable.
Thanks.
Jacob | ||
| Post# 301206 , Reply# 2 10/9/2014 at 16:09 (3,486 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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PS mine is a minimum of 4 years old and has the dark coloured cable | ||
| Post# 301215 , Reply# 3 10/9/2014 at 16:47 (3,486 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
 4 years old and with all those problems? When will the Dyson fans ever learn their lessons?
if you were not fixing this to sell, I would've told you to run after your customer and buy back the DC03! How much did you sell the DC03 for, if you don't mind? I hope you didn't take too much of a loss with that trade-in! I've been known to give away vacuums if somebody comes to me with some rag-tag clunker vac, but they're always plasti-vacs from the "To Sell" line. It's the right thing to do at times, but be thankful you got some $$$$ out of that DC03, looks like you'll be needing this for that DC24! | ||
| Post# 301284 , Reply# 4 10/10/2014 at 02:46 (3,486 days old) by suctionselector (Leeds, England) | ||
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DC24 Super-Sweeper - I sold the DC03 for £49.95/$80.57, and knocked £20 off for part exchange. I still made some money off it, even with the part exchange.
Tayyab - Yes, long time no chat, my Skype hasn't been working recently though I'm on to getting that sorted soon!
It would appear that the DC24 was prone to problem's, not just you and me, and of course all the problems that blakaeg's had with his. I'm hoping to get it sorted soon. | ||
| Post# 301319 , Reply# 5 10/10/2014 at 13:43 (3,485 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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DC24's are problematic indeed, only good for flats or small use, like a bedroom vacuum, mine lasted one month after being used in our. 5 bedroom house entirely :P coped well tbh, but conked out with its end cap and brushbar, motors work though and all pcbs etc | ||
| Post# 301320 , Reply# 6 10/10/2014 at 13:45 (3,485 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Despite the DC03 having less suction than the DC24, it's pretty reliable! The motors in them rarely burn out, they last ages and when they are faulty, it's just a loss of suction or a cable problem, or something minor | ||
| Post# 301322 , Reply# 7 10/10/2014 at 13:52 (3,485 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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| Post# 301330 , Reply# 8 10/10/2014 at 14:36 (3,485 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Well. I pushed the DC24 beyond its limits so I was kinda expecting it tbh... Plus the end cap was messed uo but it was still used before it became rattly again | ||
| Post# 301367 , Reply# 9 10/10/2014 at 18:00 (3,485 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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