Has been the best vacuum I've had really powerful. Sometimes suction is to good. I have not had a bad experience unlike others reviews.

Purchased mine not more that two months ago. If you decide to purchase this model, do yourself a favour and take it out of the box and check the filters. The one on the back of mine is not the same shape as the one in the replacement filter pack that you can purchase. It means that you cannot replace this filter. This is the first time my retailer has come across this problem. I do wonder how many others out there have the same problem but have not purchased a new filter kit yet to find out. Have had to return my vacuum cleaner for further investigation.

I totally agree with all of the bad reviews, this cleaner is the worst one I have ever owned and I really cannot believe that it made it through quality control at Vax It blocks every time you use it, whilst emiting the most terrible screeching noise. There is a design fault with the filter as it just does not fit at all and even though I clean it out after every use, it smells awful aswell. The final straw was when it tipped over and would not start again so my husband took it apart and couldn't believe how flimsy and badly assembled it was. Its now in the garden, waiting to be dumped at the tip and its less than 18months old!!!!

Bought for a house with 2 dogs. On the plus side, it is powerful. Really powerful. Downside is that has some design issues. The hose is too flimsy and prone to kinking of you're not careful. The attachments are on some assembly that clips to the pipe. Ours lives in the cupboard. Other brands manage to fit them onboard. The retractable cord on mine has become unreliable and winds itself in while in use. Then the most serious fault: The pre-motor filter. It is a large circular filter but the orange outer ring is too flimsy and it pops up meaning dust goes into the motor. If you leave it like that then the motor will burn out. I am buying a replacement filter on amazon and I'm intenting cutting the orange part from the old one to reinforce the new one. So I'm re-engineering it.

This was purchased at Xmas this year it has blocked with every use I phoned vax in July 14 and they said there was a problem, with the design, I am not an engineer but even I could see there was no way the dirt could suck into the tub,as it clogs around the filter, if vax have been making hovers for years how did they not notice this in production, and the utensils that stay on the tube fall off when in use

NOT AS BAD AS WHAT IS POSTED After reading all the bad reviews I thought I mite add my 2 cents. Yes it could have been made better as in the parts if you twist the nossle the wrong way it will make a high pitched screaming noise. However I have two cats and it cleans up pet hair like nothing before. Used in a share house of young people it was given the name "the jet" and great that it can be used on the bed and couch turn the power down can clean fly screens. Super easy the take apart the kids can do it and I just sucked up a sock got it out in under 30sec WOW. Haven't had it brake like people been posting maybe they need to not be so rough with it and I tend to brake a lot of things. Also gets 5 stars for when an old house mate took it out side to suck up SAND & ROCKS guess what it still goes hard! Had this product for almost a year now and the only problem is I cant find where I put some attachments. I repeat it's SOCKS & ROCKS PROOF. Make your own mind up about this product but after I read some of the reviews on here I had to write one that wasn't negative. The Best Product To Buy The Kids When They First Move Out Of Home (At least if it brakes it's an excuse not to buy them anything els)

Seems good the first times you use it but very soon the problems start...every square meter you have to clean the filter as it blocks (in a normal household with no exceptional stuff that we vacuumclean!). The filter is not easy to replace, the cap doesn't fit really well, the plastic thing to open the cover is very light plastic. What is a vacuumcleaner of which you have to empty the filter after every two minutes??? Now the filter is dirty and starts to be broken on the sides...the dirt stays in and no washing helped for that. Rubbish machine first class! Never a Vax for me anymore as I see a LOT of negative comments (only negative to be honest)

This is the worst vacuum cleaner I have ever used. Previous hoovers have lasted me years. I have had 3 machines in 5 months. Unfortunately they will not refund, only replace. The filters have to be cleaned out at least once a week, and this takes more time than the hoovering. You could not pay me to have one of these in the future.

Bought this thing to replace my old mk3 dyson, big mistake, persevered for 5 months now, its heavy, it loses suction and if you use the flex pipe you end up with bruising to your body, instructions say you have to position it against something to stop it falling over or following you, what a laugh, you would have to chain it to the floor, bits have cracked or broken off, all I can say is this is the worst item I have ever bought, half price offer looks good but beware, should have returned it. will be smashed to pieces next time it attacks. don't buy this product :-(

I spend more time cleaning up the mess this machine causes than I do using it. The first time I used it the holder for the pipe/hose broke. This machine is badly designed after a short time using it it blocks up, it can't cope with anything more than light dust. All the usual things you would expect a vacuum cleaner to pick up such as hair small bits of debris block it up. After a short period of time the filter blows off and it throws out large amounts of dust into the air which it takes ages to clean up manually. There are design faults with the turbo brush which can't cope with hair and the red central filter which blocks very soon after using. I have previously owned 2 Vax machines which lasted approx 10 years each they were well made and easy to use. This machine signifies a real deterioration in the Vax brand. I have read lots of other reviews which support my dissatisfaction I wish I had read them before I bought this model. It would be best if Vax acknowledged that there are real issues with this model and didn't fob buyers off with endless replacements.

I bought a Power 7 Vax vacuum cleaner in May last year, after 3 months it stopped working and was replaced under guarantee.5 months later the motor on the 2nd cleaner burned out and was replaced. Now the motor on the 3rd one has burned out as well. I received a relacement and am now on my 4th cleaner in 18 months!!The delivery man said that he delivers more vax relacement vacuum cleaners than other make. I vacuum throughout once a week so it is not being over used and have no pets.

I have bought this hoover because of the power as i have very long hair, deep carpets and recently bought a kitty. was thinking that for this money it will be a good one. it was nearly broken but fortinatelly i managed to find all the filters and cean them properly. after two weeks of usage it just burned.good thing is that i can easily get the replacement. hope it will be better.