Many don’t realise until they’ve unboxed it that they don’t have the long reach they expected.

Plug the machine in and switch it on at the wall..Put your foot on the base and gently twist the main body left and right and side to side..

If it bursts into life or flickers, even briefly, that points to a fault inside one of the machine’s wiring looms.. Sebo Wiring Loom Failure – What to Look For.Remove the bag door and tower filter and inspect the wire running down the inside of the body behind the filter.This is part of the main wiring loom.

Look for signs of heat damage, discolouration or brittleness at the plug end – you may need to remove it to see this, but again, a test meter is your friend here.. We see this often in machines with intermittent faults.It may test fine with a meter but fail under load.

If in doubt, replace the loom — we supply this part and use it regularly in our own workshop.. Swivel Neck Power Loss – Burnt Pins or Damaged Loom.

Inside the swivel neck, there’s another short loom with two brass prongs you’ll see sticking up.Over our lifetime each one of us throws away over three tonnes of old electrical products.

To preserve our environment we need to look at ways of becoming more sustainable.Repairing your Sebo with us is green; it reduces the amount of end-of-life electrical appliances going into landfills..

Your old Sebo Automatic X or Felix is a quality German-made vacuum.Sebos are designed in such a way that they can be repaired by a competent vacuum engineer.