I brought one, an electrolux, and within 9 months it was playing up. It took me 6 months of mucking around for them to fix it, then it broke again, they fixed it again, then it BLEW UP and they replaced it. When that one broke again within the warranty period, they said it wasn't under warranty anymore. Why? Because they were going by my ORIGINAL warranty, even though this one was a brand new vaccum that I got almost 2 years AFTER the original cleaner.

So I wont buy from them again.