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Other Vacuum Cleaners & Site Suggestions => Miele Vacuum Cleaners => Topic started by: beko1987 on April 25, 2017, 08:50:56 pm
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This used to be my mums
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I got it for her soon after I met Amy, for £25 from Reading via ebay. It's been a good old thing, and served mum well. But, I obtained a free and quite battered Miele S5 for free from Facebook just after christmas, so I gave mum that (as it was too far gone to be refurbed, and made a good upgrade) and took this back to sell.
First up, the mini turbo brush I found to go with it
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Pop the lid
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Then prise the end caps off
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This separates the two halves
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The turbine and the framed end caps it sits in lift out and off the belt
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Surprisingly this still span quite well
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The axle doesn't come out of turbine (certainly not cleanly) so I cut and picked it all off
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The baseplate and brushroll pop out of the main frame
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The white brushroll end caps prise out from the sides, then the brushroll can be removed
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The brushroll got cleaned, and I started on the main turbo head
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These screws turn (and are a bit chocolatey, so mind the screwdriver)
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And the baseplate lifts off at the rear and unclips from the front
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With that, undo the 4 normal screws and lift the top off
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The suction valve unclips
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Next, we need to undo these screws here holding this cover on
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You can lift out the turbine and neck. The axle does push out of the turbine here, and needs to so you can seperate the two parts
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The brushroll and belt guard lift off
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The end caps come off the brushroll
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And I cleaned the brushroll ready for washing
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I left the wand alone, as it was fine
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Hose now
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The ends remove easily, no tools needed on the wand end
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Some light tab flicking on the machine end
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And we can finally move onto the actual machine 3 posts in!
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and lift the first hood
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Small tools off
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The tool door is broken, I am hoping it will glue up at this stage in the past
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So off it comes
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Bag fill piston indicator now
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2 screws has it out
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and it pops apart
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Next lid opened now, to reveal the bag door! (brand new bag fitted so I could sell the machine with a new bag...)
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To remove it, push the 2 black hinges either side inwards one at a time, they pop off and the door lifts off
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The bag door catch fell off in the car after some enthusiastic cornering when I forgot it was in the boot (I miss the Xantia, it did corner well!), so this is what it looks like if I had just taken it off...
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Underneath the bag door, the hose inlet is fixed in with 4 screws
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Once they are removed, it and the bag seal flap fall off
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4 tabs split the unit down further still
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The bag support is held in with a screw either side
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And a spring which sits like so on the bag support and braces/springs against the main body of the machine
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The post motor filter cage lifts out next
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And these two screws need to be undone
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Which enables the switch assembly to be removed
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The part that rotates and turns the potentiometer when the power slider is adjusted lifts out
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The power and cord rewind pedals pop out, each pivot is one big clip
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The slider itself can be removed
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Onto the electronics now. The black rod is a switch that is activated when the floor tool is parked in the cleaner, it turns the machine off (and has never worked)
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It lifts out, along with the unplugged switch
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The main on/off switch lifts out now, you can see that both are on the same circuit
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it goes to here on this packed connector
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Undoing some more screws enables the whole rear part to lift up, which will include EVERYTHING!
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The cord rewind lifts out of the unit and the blue wire unplugs from the connector block, and the black from the switch.
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Unplug the motor plug
The motor is held in by the one screw in a frame
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And once unscrewed the motor can be removed
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The fancase frame clips onto the top part of the vacuum
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All the sound deadening can be removed
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As can the connector block
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Lots of sound deadening sits in the bottom of the machine too
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Staying with the lower chassis, 2 screws hold the carry handle together
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The furniture guard/motor housing seal lifts off then
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Under these two screws is the power socket and wires
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Once removed, the whole lot comes out
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Underneath now
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Pop each wheel off, and you can see the screws underneath
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Undo all 8 screws and the wheel assemblies come off, and can be split further for lubrication
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The last thing to come out is the side parking slot
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and it's all done, and ready to be washed
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and dried, polished and ready for reassembly
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Wheels first
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Put a smear of grease on the metal stub at this point
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Side parking slot refitted
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Power socket and wires fitted
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And run around like so, with the plug fitted in place
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The bumper/seal can be fitted now
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Handle bottom fitted
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Refit the sound deadening once it's fully dry to both halves of the casing
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Pop the motor fancase holder in
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This is the thermal cutout for the motor. Clean this up so it doesn't give false readings and overheat when it shouldn't!
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Fit the motor and screw the clamp down
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Refit the cord reel, not forgetting to pop the cables through the chassis to the top side
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Wire everything up on the top side
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Re-assemble the switch cover
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And refit the speed control stuff underneath
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And bolt it all down
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Fit a nice air freshener
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then fit a new post motor filter with cage
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Screw the bag holder down
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Pop a nice new pre motor filter in
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fit a new bag
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Fit the bag door latch
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Reassemble and fit the hose entry parts, then fit the bag door. Line one side up, and fit the hinge parts, then lever the other hinge side on
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Re-assemble the piston indicator
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and screw it down
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Then refit the tools and tool door
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Sadly glue did not hold the hinge, but I was completely honest when listing it for sale and it still sold within 20 minutes, so it wasn't worth worrying about!
Main turbo head now
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Pop the slider back into the hood
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Refit the brushroll into the base chassis
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Re-assemble the turbine and neck, and refit the cover
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Then screw the turbo brush together and fit the baseplate
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Re-assemble the mini turbo head
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And the job is done!
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It sold for £55 even with the bag door fault declared and shown the the buyer, who did not care, she had been wanting a 'nice Miele' for her dad for a while, and seemed impressed with this when I demonstrated it to her! So that's £25 to buy, then used for nearly 5 years, then sold for £55, so £30 profit for changing my mums hoover, bargain!
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It sold for £55 even with the bag door fault declared and shown the the buyer, who did not care, she had been wanting a 'nice Miele' for her dad for a while, and seemed impressed with this when I demonstrated it to her! So that's £25 to buy, then used for nearly 5 years, then sold for £55, so £30 profit for changing my mums hoover, bargain!
Congrats! It's always great when things work out so nicely.
Also, thanks for the pictorial (as always!).
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Yep, always good when I can make money by not doing much work!
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Yes, a great tutorial. They seem pretty neat machines, these. We have had the odd one in but spares are big bucks for them.
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Miele's are nice, but can be a pain to re-sell as they get so battered!
The S5 I got for free worked utterly fine once I changed the bag and filters so it stopped overheating itself, but the plastics were destroyed. Not a problem for a machine you want to use, but makes selling it impossible!
And +1 on spare parts prices. On an S5, the silver plastic pedals and trim that run around the back of the machine, that always flake and scratch and look shite, £20ish per piece from Miele! Infact most parts bar bags are only available from Miele. Q had some bits in a long time ago, I bought some wand button kits which were ace, but there was buggar all other stuff. Things like motors and cord reels, your best bet is buying a scrapper machine and hoping (I have an S5 motor in the shed just incase, although it's not great)
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Painted/silvered plastic shouldn't be put on anything intended to be used more than once.
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