The apparent cost of white goods spares varies massively depending on source. EBay is a pretty good place for most spares... as is the traditional market stall in our local city. We do have a long standing specialist appliance spares shop in town too but the guy is an absolute ripoff... nothing is marked with prices and I'm sure he just goes for the max he thinks you'll pay. Needed a cooker oven element the other week and he offered a pattern part at almost £40... told him I'd wait for the genuine item from an Ebay supplier I'd seen for £16 inc postage.
With vacuums I'm a big Dyson fan and have four DC04 models. One for the house, one for garage, one I supply/maintain for Mum and one for spares. Buy them down the tip or on EBay for £5-£10 and use the spare one to supply parts to fettle the others.
Once you've stripped/repaired one they are so easy to work on and their common faults that cause folks to scrap them are so easily resolved.
The Series Land Rover of the vacuum world.
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