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Sounds simple to say belt is broken. My panasonic beater bar wont turn but belt is intact. The lever arm to hold the belt in drive slips off and allows the belt to run on the neutral bush. The lever arm needs to be reshaped to hold in position

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That means that the belt is broken, stretched or worn. You need to change the belt. You can get replacements here:

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SOURCE: Dyson Animal 07 beater bar not spinning - belt not broken

if your unit has a clutch it maybe that it is in the off position or the motor belt is broken your unit has to belts if its a clutched model 

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SOURCE: Our dyson beater bar won't spin.

DC14s actually have two belts, but one of them is difficult to get at or even see without some dismantling.

Have a look at www.dysonmedic.com which has some very useful info on dismantling and repairing Dysons.

Although this site doesnt actually cover the DC14 yet, the DC14 is very similar to the DC07 so as regards dissassembling the machine, my experience is that the DC07 info will enable you to do the job.

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SOURCE: beater bar does not spin...

  • If the brush bar is not spinning on your vacuum there are a couple possibilities here.

  1. The first thing to check the the belt than connects between the brush bar and the brush bar motor. If it has broke or is very loos then there will be no rotation in from the brush bar. If you hear the motor whirring but no brush bar then the belt has moved to the top of the list.

  • Of course you want to make sure that the brush bar spins freely. Make sure the vacuum is unplugged and give it a few manual turns to make sure there are no hangups. Keep the brush bar of hair and things that get caught in the brush.


  • Another issue is the motor could be burned up or otherwise not spinning. If the motor is not running there is nothing to spin the brush bar. I will upload all 3 exploded diagrams of your vacuum so you can get a good view of your vacuums workings in my next post to you that I will send directly. Mean while here is my solution to your problem.

  • If you have any comments please feel free to leave them right here and I will respond to you.

  • Hope this helps and thank you for using FixYa.

Regards, Tony

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