Stihl Vacuum Cleaner is bad quality & worthless!

Spent R3k on a vacuum cleaner. Used it for a couple of hours a week for about 18 months and the thing packed up. Absolute waste of money and I wouldn’t recommend it. Worst still is they don’t stand behind their product or the quality. Was just told to pay almost the full price of a new one to repair it so I can basically throw it away. It’s a total *******. Stay away from this product line!