Sorry to be a little late back to this thread but about a month ago I was vacuuming with the dc17 when all of a sudden it somewhat pulsed and smelt of smoke before I managed to turn it off. After that the machine powered up and ran but had ZERO suction.
Fast forward to today and I have finally figured out what happened and it’s something I’ve never seen before.
The fan blades of the motor have snapped away from their original mounting points and have somewhat bent to create a closed circle around themselves causing the machine to have no suction I’ll post a picture of what I mean.
Has anyone else ever seen this?