GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Looking for a portable vacuum that sucks?
Needing an easier way to clean your car?
The WYZE handheld vacuum promises to be a powerful, portable vacuum that’s good for small messes around the house or in the car, but does it suck?
The WYZE handheld vacuum costs around sixty dollars and comes in a large box with all the accessories you’ll need. We noticed that all of the attachments are cheap plastic, and some require an adapter to work. One plus is that the vacuum came with a charging cable and plug for the wall.
It took only a few hours to charge this vacuum up, and it was ready to roll. You can see its charge status with the led lights by the power button. To turn on the vacuum, you need to press the button for a few seconds. Once on, you have two settings, low and high. To turn the vacuum off, you need to hold down the button for a few seconds, like how you turned it on.
For our test, we decided to pour some cereal, dirt, and sugar on the carpet to see how this thing performed. It picked up the cereal with no problem, but the size of the cereal was right at the unit's limit for object size, so some pieces did get stuck. The dirt vacuumed up pretty well, but some of the deep-down dirt wouldn’t release from the carpet fibers. Then finally, some sugar. This was similar to the dirt where the surface debris vacuumed up pretty quickly, leaving behind some in the fibers.
The vacuum seems to have decent suction, but it struggles to pull items trapped in the carpet fibers.
We tried a couch and all its fun lurking inside, and it worked probably the best out of all the tests here.
Finally, we took it outside to a car. Here it struggled to pull the dirt up from the carpet, it would suck up the loose dirt on the floormat, but it was a lot of work to get it out of the fibers in the carpet. So this will not be replacing the car wash vacuums anytime soon.
One big issue we noticed is the flapping door that is supposed to keep the dust bin debris from falling back out tends to stick open, either from a large item or just deciding to stay open on its own. This causes the contents from the bin to empty back out of the vacuum and onto the floor, defeating the purpose of vacuuming. The dust bin on this device is tiny, and after emptying it and taking it off, we noticed some of the dirt from our test got into the cracks and made it hard to put back together.
Now the results:
The positive
- Cordless
- Washable filters
- Variable rates of power
The negatives
- Awkward design for the unit and dust bin
- Dust bin can leak
- Not powerful enough to get dirt trapped in fibers
We usually like it when a vacuum sucks, but this one fell short from the dust bin that allows dirt to leak into the awkward shape. It’s an awkward device for any situation.
We rate this as an "Avoid It."
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