DYSON DC05

My friends Dyson DC05 was loosing suction and then it stopped altogether one day. When she took the filters out there was black soot in them so it was obvious that the motor had burnt out. I think this happened because she wasn't cleaning the filters regularly (go do yours now!) I replaced the motor myself and wrote a guide with photo's at www.tasweb.org

We have a DC08 it looks very similar to yours. The wife just did the same thing. She pulls the power cord out of the wall by the cord not the plug. It opens up one of the wires in the power cord. This is the second time it's happened. I opened up the vacuume cleaner and checked the cables and motor and all is well, but from the plug to the connectors in the cable re-wind mechanism is open circuit. So there is a break inside one of the wires, and I have to replace the power cord.