"RG" wrote in message
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That got some nasty reviews from users. Has your belt broken or gone up
in flames yet?

I saw those. No problems from mine, but I'm sure it doesn't get the run
time that one might get in a home setting. I've probably had it for a
couple of years, but I'd be surprised if it has more than an hour or two
of run time. It only takes me about 5 minutes to fully vacuum the cabin
and cockpit carpet. I particularly liked the complaint about pet hair
clogging the unit and causing it to overheat. I'm guessing cleaning it
out once in a while might have prevented that problem. Also sounds like
maybe they didn't put it back together right. The part about the pet hair
clogging the filter compartment before going into the canister makes no
sense. With a bagless hepa filter vacuum, the filtering is done as the
air exhausts the unit. Dirt is trapped before it gets to the filter due to
cyclonic action. However, there does seem to be a consensus that locating
and purchasing a replacement belt is nearly impossible. I have no idea
what the belts cost, but I'm thinking that by the time you purchase the
belt, pay for shipping, spend untold time on the phone screaming at
someone for three months, why not just go down to Target and buy another
unit for $28? How much money are you really saving? Or buy something
else, if you got such bad service from the original.

Bottom line, based on my experience and those reviews, if you expect it to
do light duty and are looking for an easy stow, it's probably a good
choice. If you expect it to pull heavy duty and last forever, you probably
need to keep looking.


This is for one use: Hair on the bathroom floor. 60 seconds every 2 days,
when I don't want to haul out the big canister vac.