Recommend me a decent car hoover

[Too Late]

Looking for a mains powered car hoover. Around this time of year with 2 dogs and a pushchair, the family car gets filthy. Can anyone recommend a decent lightweight hoover for the car?

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[liner33]

Henry , good for other jobs around the house as well

[Riktoid]

Henry all the way.

[Al U]

I just roll the dyson outside and use the hose on it. One attachment for the floors, one for the seats/carpets. Good suction is important.

[Funkycoldribena]

http://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/goodmans-2-in-1...
Works well.

[LotusOmega375D]

After years of putting up with the half-hearted and short-lived efforts of even the most powerful rechargeable handheld vacuum I bought one of these mains ones:

http://www.tooltime.co.uk/shoppingcart/products/Dr...

It's OK. Plenty of power (and noise!). Downsides include:

detachable suction pipe is only held in by friction and falls out quite easily

small capacity needs emptying frequently

I had to do the wife's really filthy car yesterday and couldn't bring myself to fiddle around with the handheld one, so got the houselhold vacuum outside and used that instead. Floor mats vacuumed out of the car to perfection, rest of car cleaned with the hose attachment.

[TR4man]

Henry

[smithyithy]

Henrys are good. They do a wet/dry too which is ideal for giving your interior a proper good clean say once or twice a year.

[Shaw Tarse]

I'll go with Henry

[loose cannon]

I use a Henry also, when I did it for a living I used a shiny metal nillfisk that we called R2D2, as it was the same shape with blue rubber protectors, and a selection of rubber hose ends for those awkward seat rails, best thing I have ever used for cars,But there not cheap and a Henry will do the job nicely, just get a rubber end atachment trimmed up for the hard to reach parts

[Peanut Gallery]

Al U said:

I just roll the dyson outside and use the hose on it. One attachment for the floors, one for the seats/carpets. Good suction is important.

Just a note that some dysons have one of those extending hoses, which are a PITA to use in a car. Pull it nice and long, stick the end to the carpet, suction in the hose increases, pulls the hose shorter, so pulls the dyson into the side of the car... Please do not ask how I know this...

[Al U]

Peanut Gallery said:

Just a note that some dysons have one of those extending hoses, which are a PITA to use in a car. Pull it nice and long, stick the end to the carpet, suction in the hose increases, pulls the hose shorter, so pulls the dyson into the side of the car... Please do not ask how I know this...

The trick is to just have it leaning against the sill of the open door before you pull the hose. They are made out of plastic after all and haven't scratched the paint on any of my cars.

[bodhi]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyson-v6-Fluffy-Crevice-Co...

Not cheap, but the OH decided she wanted one for the house (3 storey townhouse with a lot of stairs to clean), and I've borrowed it to use on the car. Pretty much perfect in all honesty.

[fatjon]

Henry, indestructible and the bags are cheap (£10/30). It has handled everything from building rubble downwards for the least 4 years without complaint.

The bloody expensive but asthmatic, scrawny, and useless Dyson went in a skip after I bought it.