WHICH UK consumer has found the following information;
Upright vacuum cleaners - best brand overall is SEBO.
"..Sebo comes top in the upright vacuum category, with the highest reliability (93%) and customer scores (83%) plus one Best Buy model. (SEBO FELIX, to which this company says "... SEBO FELIX excels at vacuuming hard floors thanks to its hard floor nozzle and deals brilliantly with pet hair. It's easy to manoeuvre and is very good at getting into nooks and crannies - unusually for an upright vacuum cleaner). Dyson matches SEBO for average test score but is some way off matching SEBO for reliability and customer scores. Hoover only manages one star for reliability - and gets a low customer score of 42%..."
Score table:
SEBO 93% reliability score (out of 298)ORECK 86% reliability score (out of 53)PANASONIC 82% reliability score (out of 165)
AEG (includes Electrolux) 80% reliability score (out of 68)
DYSON 80% reliability score (out of 1780!)VAX 54% reliability score (out of 189)
HOOVER 57% reliability score (out of 156)
Cylinder vacuum cleaners - best brand overall is MIELE.
"...Miele's impressive reliability score of 97% is matched by Numatic (which makes Henry and James vacuums amongst others). All 12 of the Miele machines we've tested are Best Buys, whereas none of the Numatic vacuums we've tested have earned a Best Buy award (and one model is a don't buy).
NUMATIC 97% reliability score (out of 208)
MIELE 97% reliability score (out of 1576!)
VAX 92% reliability score (out of 68)
BOSCH 91% reliability score (out of 212)
DYSON 88% reliability score (out of 308)AEG/ 88% reliability score (out of 91)
HOOVER 86% reliability score (out of 58)
This message was modified Feb 23, 2011 by vacmanuk
