After five years the motor on my Tineco A10 finally gave up the ghost. It was a perfect vacuum but being the primary sucker for that long at under $200 for a house full of animals and kids I can’t complain. So I lurked here a while and settled on the Dyson V12 Slim Detect since we had good experience with a first-gen Ball from back in the day.

Our current house is just under 3,000 sq ft which is about 60/40 hardwood to carpet split upstairs and downstairs. The downstairs gets MUCH more traffic and dirtier way faster. We also have a simple iRobot something and a Bissel ProHeat 2X for deep cleaning carpets and a pho Larry. Here are my thoughts on the Dyson V12 for anyone else who is looking for info:

Positives:

• The single battery lasts about as long as two batteries in the Tineco. It can do just about our whole lived-in portion of the house on one charge.

• The suction on the V12 thing is noticeably better than the A10 and I’m pulling up some deep and nasty stuff from the carpets. Nice!

• It’s quieter than the A10 and makes a really rad noise when powered off.

• I’m glad I got the version with the big red ON button compared to older Dysons where you have to hold the trigger down at all times. I have no idea why it took them so long to add that basic quality of life feature.

• It seems easy to clean so far and true to their word the attachments aren’t getting gunked up easily. The metal filter is also curious but cool.

• The attachment and accessory package seems good and I’ve already used them all.

• It’s very light!

• The V12 does a really good job of picking up larger items like cereal. The A10 was terrible at this and I basically had to play Hungry Hungry Hippos everywhere.

Meh:

• Needing to take off the attachments to empty the canister kind of sucks but that’s an extremely minor annoyance, especially if it means it’s better built otherwise.

• I super don’t care about the charts it’s showing me about what’s being sucked up.

• I wish the standard roller had a headlight and I miss that from the Tineco.

• The taller roller head means I can’t vacuum under as many things as the A10.

Negatives:

• Incredibly subjective but yo this thing is ugly. I don’t mind having appliances and tools with some color but something less primary and circus tent inspired would have been nice.

• Not all of the attach points feel super snug and that concerns me about long-term durability.

• You can NOT use this thing at all on thin Ruggable style rugs. Even on low it creates so much suction that it can’t move and sounds like it’s about to explode. This isn’t the case with every other vacuum I’ve ever used.

• It feels overall kind of cheap despite how well it’s working now.

• And probably my biggest peeve is the wheel on the roller heads SUCKS. I guess they’re trying to do a mini-ball style design but it’s useless to the point where I feel like the vacuum is just being dragged around and not rolling. This is especially bad on carpet as I can straight up see the disks not spinning as I love it around. This also makes turning the unit feel terrible. The Tineco A10’s rubber wheels were MILES above this implementation and I have no idea what Dyson was thinking.

So overall I’m liking the Dyson V12 Slim Detect but I feel like it could be a much better product with some work, especially when much cheaper vacuums have some better attributes. However I would NOT recommend it at full price as MSRP is $650 but I got it on sale for $500 which is way, way more reasonable.

Hope this helps someone and I’d be happy to clarify anything!

Hi Guys

Quick question does anyone know what is the real difference between absolute and normal dyson v12 model? the absolute is exclusive to Dyson's website (the HEPA filter is turqoise coloured), but aside from the wand clip I don't see any real difference?

The price is identical, from what I understand the motor as a whole for turqoise absolute model is built in a way to be better at filtration as a whole? and that's about it? but maintenance wise, idk

Anyways, let me know if anyone understands the difference - also if you know the difference between V15 Detect Absolute and V15 Detect - let me know that as well, seems like the only difference there is the crevice tool is built into the wand (idk how secure of a design that will be, stuff like that breaks and usually it's hard to replace/maintain)

Hi,

So I'm in for a new cordless vacuum cleaner because my bosh Athlet 32v is broken (paid +- 300€ for it aprox 3 years ago).
Originally I've replaced it's internal 18650 batteries but that specific model is locked when you do that + the plastic broke off on the brush holder.
So I'm looking for a RELIABLE one with enough suction power for MANY years to come.
My home is 50m² of tiles (hardfloor) with no rug. My stairs are covered in carpet though and upstairs it's hardwood. So I'm mainly interested in a hardfloor one that can also do the stairs and occasionally doing my car.
So far what I've read, the V12 is best suited without having to drag the big V15.
Worse case I'd need to buy a new battery in a year or 3 (at 150€ that is EXTREMELY expensive though)!.
To do my car I guess I'll have to shell out for the flexibel part

Now I'm very confused because I see A LOT of positive reviews/comments on the V12, but then in some area's I hear it's utterly garbage with flimsy plastic parts.
I'm not a particular careful owner, not that I abuse things but I tend to use them 'carefree' so it will fall down, bump everywhere etc. What are you opinions regarding this on the V12?