People, never ever buy the Braun body cruzer!!!! It does not mather
which version/type you buy, with 'all' versions the big trimmer fails to
work after aprox, 18-24 months.
I have bought three version of them, the first one stopped working
totally after about a year. With the second one the large trimmer blade
did not work anymore, so I bought the newest cruzer version (shaver #3
by then) in the hope Braun would have solved this problem. But NO, the
same thing happend. After 18 months the trimmer is broke and I can throw
my shaver in the bin because you buy this thing for the trimmer.
Now about 3 years later I have in total bought 3 cruzer shavers from
Braun and all are broke (i am also almost broke, those things are pretty
expensive here). And of course Braun does not help, they just say you
are beyond warranty or did not take good care of the product. But I did,
I keeped it clean with the little brushes, I put oil on blades/parts,
and when I had shaved in the shower I made dry.... so I wonder what
Braun means with "taking good care for your product" but i think they
mean something like: buy a new one and give us some more of your money.
I will NEVER buy a Braun product again! And be warned people, don't say
you where not warned for this product when you buy one and is goes broke
within a year.
Never washed mine and never oiled it, just blew and brushed the bristles away. The clipper stopped working well outside guarantee period (I only used it when I needed a trim for a meeting or a function!). So I stripped it down to see what the problem was. In my case - and I reckon it is a common cause of the problem - bristles had built up inside the bottom of the trimmer slider, so that the slide could not be slid fully into the trim position. Unfortunately in discovering the problem I broke the slider mounts, so no more Cruzer, but at least I know what the problem was. I don't believe washing or oiling would have avoided it and I think it shows a serious design fault.
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The solution was very simple in my case (I had the same problem with trimmer pulling my facial hair). According to the manual you should oil up the trimmer cutters (as well as the foil) each week - if you wash the shaver in water.
I did just that - used a little oil (that came together with shaver) and it did the trick - the trimmer works now just how it used to.
I'm lucky it worked because it was the first time I ever oiled it since I bought the shaver ten months ago.
Hope that helps :-)
Michal
There have been dozens of posts on this with no solution. I guess we hav all been ripped off by braun, sorry to say.
I honestly think your best bet is to do the same as most of us and admit that this company sold you a piece of **** that doesn't do it's job, throw it out and buy something good. You are honeslty better buying a 'cheap' twenty or thirty dollar trimmer with no bells or whistles than trying to get the cruzer to do anything other than rip at your face, miss 80% of your beard and generally **** a hundred bucks off of you.
My solution? : Buit a 15 dollar conair kit, it actually trims. Aso, never by braun again.
Gentlemen, you put oil in your car right? Why wouldn't you lubricate the moving parts on this fine piece of machinery? Two things I love about the Cruzer3 are the trimmer attachment, and the fact that you can rinse it in water.
Well of course that will eventually remove any oil/grease/lubricant and slow down the parts.
A quick oiling, or a few sprays of WD40 and the fur will be flying again. Make sure you wash both razor and face well if using WD40 or you'll get a nasty rash.
You´re right gdoerre...!
I just pick my Cruzer 3 up from the basement, where it has been for the last couple of years, thick with hair from my beard, i guess... Didn´t qualify for the 2 year warranty, so after reading your post I thought I´d give it a try oiling it up.
Started to dissemble it with the great tutorial someone posted in a similar thread, but it didn´t quite do it...
so I rinsed the trim-part(in trim mode) in hot water, flipped it around a few times,
then took some teflon-spray, used for oiling chains on bicycles etc and
pushed the blade left and right with my thumbnail to really get the oil in(pushed left and sprayed right and vice versa)
then pushed it some more to the sides(to help it along the way);
rinsed it again with water,
sprayed it a little more in the same procedure as before,
wiped off the oil that leaked out on the sides and
hell yeah, it worked again!!
After all it´s a perfect-sized shaver that fits well in my hand, I Like it(no I don´t work at Braun...)
Thanks man!
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Im having the same problem. it looks like the cutting blade is not moving far enough any more. i dont think you can take it apart to clean it so maybe its just junk now.
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Same problem here, the trimmer stopped working. Has anybody tried replacing the shaver foil + cutter block? Braun sells replace parts for those, in fact they recommend replacing them after 18 months of use.
I too the thing apart and broke the casing! Couldn't really see much that could be done though. aye to the bin I think!
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Im having exactly the same problem - great at trmming beard i.e.leaving short stubble when 1st used. Now 6 months on, it doesnt trim but just pulls and catches. I agree - looks like the 2nd set of blades arent moving far enough.
Just been on the braun website - u can download the manual - but no help !! Fortunately - kept my receipt - so its going back tommorow!!
If i have lost the receipt and it is still under the guarantee is there any way I can claim, because this thing is ripping my hair out. UK
Have the same problem. Trimmer does not work
My clipper part has NEVER worked and they refused to honor the warranty on it. I feel like I would have been better buying a used pair of rusty scissors from some guy in a back alley, at last they would actually cut something instead of yanking at my face.
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