Neato Botvac Connected D3 Review & Tests - Robot Vacuum

[@skylerdylan1005]

Ive had the Neato D3 for almost 3 years. About 6 months ago i bought the new high capacity battery, basically it cleans forever. What a fantastic unit, always picks up so much. 10/10

[@rer1967]

I've had my D3 for almost 3 years and thought I loved it before. Just ran the software update today and was blown away at how much better it performed. Very satisfied customer here.

[@bonethugs7866]

I’ve tried a iRobot Roomba and the Neato and the Neato is so much better🌼 I have 2 black labs that shed like crazy and the Neato is great at picking up dog hair. And if you like straight vacuum lines the Neato is the vacuum for you. The Roomba was so sporadic in how it cleaned, going from one end of the house to the other like a pinball, never completing a room. The Neato breaks each room down before going to the next. Highly recommend.

[@EvanJS2005]

don't get neato my d3 started having issues 1 year ago with the wifi and it suckkks because that is what it uses and needs

[@brody2642]

My D3 is still running strong. Its been in use since release and all I’ve had to do was replace an o-ring in the turret. Great buy however I’d recommend a model with the side brush if you’re in the market

[@jamesmartin4827]

If you come across issues connecting to wifi after buying a refurbished d3, try clearing the robot of the prevously stored wifi information. You can do this by pushing the bumper to the right while shutting it off. Turn it on again and try pairing

[@DWilliam1]

I’ve had the D3 for a few moths now and it’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. I previously had a Euphy but it wasn’t a smart bot and I wanted no go lines. This little bot picks up everything, is great on hardwood floors and rugs and has a large bin. The only negative is its loudness but I’ve turned it into a Positive as my neighbor below me is an asshole and I’ll run it late at night when I’m out of town. Love this little bot, even named it after my gold digger, do nothing girlfriend.

[@anthc3419]

LOL awesome comment

[@ThisTall]

This review just saved me $250 on a used roomba 690 with 1/3 the cfm

[@kevintran9321]

Thanks. Your reviews are great. I love the way you put all the vacuums through though tests and measure air flow etc. I've noticed that even the Neato bots which is supposed to be really smart also tend to push around the docking station a bit. The Roborock is the only one I've seen so far that does not do this, it seems to know where the dock is placed and avoids it. Do you have any plans to review the Roborock S50 ? I'd love to watch a proper review on that one. :)

[@VacuumWars]

I keep meaning to! I would have included it in this series but the price was just out of the range of (low to mid level) at least the S5. Currently I think its the only vacuum I need to test to feel like I really have a handle on the current state of robot vacuums. That being said I plan on moving on from robot for a few months after this series is done, so though I will get to it eventually it wont be for a while.

[@johnnyanko6051]

Indeed, a review of the Roborock would be nice. I can't seem to find any proper video reviews on it. Android headlines has a nice one, where they put it up against the Roomba 980, but it's from when it first came out, so the firmware and the app is quite outdated.

[@VacuumWars]

Thanks John, I think you may have convinced me.

[@patricksp71]

I just saw the Neato D3 Pro is on sale at Walmart for 273, since everything is interchangeable. I might get it and then upgrade the brush, Filter and the battery at my convenience. Do I really need the side brush? I was looking at the D7 but the D3 has just as much suction power and at such a good price.

[@jasons7044]

Can it learn different floors....for multi story houses ......I very much doubt it can go up and down stairs

[@OrdinarilyStrange]

I love your channel. It's very informative and helpful. Plus, I also just like vacuums. Do you think you could do a canister vacuum series in the future?

[@VacuumWars]

I really want to do a canister series in 2019.

[@redyau_]

Thank you for your service of this world!

[@southwestcarwashes]

Neato is the best robot vacuume brand!

[@andrewcantor480]

I have this and the Roomba 960. This is vastly superior in terms of cleaning, looks (in my opinion), navigation and not getting stuck. It is vastly inferior in terms of maintenance. The brush roll has to be replaced whereas the rollers on the Roomba last MUCH longer and are MUCH easier to clean. If I had to pick one I’d go with the Neato.

[@ted363636]

Great review! I have one question though. Does Neato work without its docking station? When you put Roomba 900 or Powerbot in a new room without its base, they go through a whole house and then go back to starting point. Does Neato work the same way or does it always require a docking station?

[@VacuumWars]

It works without the charging station but if you want to use it for difference levels of the house and remember the map you will need two stations.

[@natecandic7605]

Do u use your sebo in your cleaning business and what is your favorite one to use in your business

[@VacuumWars]

We mainly use The Shark NV803 and the Shark Apex

[@alexp.8630]

Greate Reviews👍🏽

[@VacuumWars]

Thanks!

[@brlewis1984]

I'm torn between the D3 and the Roborock E25. They both seem great and are in my budget. Which would you recommend?

[@ATARI800XLfan]

I have the same issue

[@NIJ.]

How do you enable 2 pass cleaning? (Horizontal and vertical) as it only does 1 pass then finishes

[@ericb9197]

not regretting being subbed to you convinced my mom to buy a shark dou our house has never been so clean!

[@VacuumWars]

Nice! Good to hear thanks!

[@985Mindy]

I got the d3 I'm not happy with the battery life, but I see their batteries on eBay that you can change it out with so looks like it's a winner

[@robincrawley1475]

RxTechLA just got my D3 did you get a better battery ?

[@mdkrush]

Thanks for including the threshold climb information!! I looked everywhere and could not find info on that!! I have a part of a bathroom that we plan on upgrading sometime so we have wood to sticky tile (temporary) with about 3/4 in lip. Thanks!!

[@sarahnichols5592]

Does the Neato D3 Connected have a manual drive mode so you can control where you want it to go? I know it didn't before, but I was curious if it was added with the app updates.

[@MrBluemoonhalos]

Can a side brush be added?

[@TheFastingBoy]

I just bought a Neato D3 pro and it kept giving me a dirty Bin & Filter error. I only used it twice and I cleaned the bin, filter and intake. Is this common with the Neato? I'm going to exchange it for another one... hopefully I won't have any problems

[@comettoPL]

It is remainder not error - you could change interval in app.

[@gabzsy4924]

Now with the addition of the no zone lines would you place Neato higher than the Xiaomi MI? I live in a pretty small 32m2 apartment with a dog who sheds quite alot of black fur on my white hard floor and I'm in between those 2 models. Thanks a lot.

[@saberxzero]

I dont't know if you made your choice but i live in a 40m2 apartement with a german sheperd. First two runs with the D3(second run i updated it and it gave me a map) it picked it ALL up no more fur. I usually vacuum with a 200$ wires shark and its as good, a bit loud honestly(gonna have to bring tv volume up by 15% maybe) dog wasnt too scared but i spend 1 hour following it with my dog to be sure he qasnt scared. Also Xiami might be collecting Wifi data and selling it some people reported ahving 10GB of data uploaded from the vacuum so do your research if you value your privacy!

[@Sharinnegan_414]

d3 blower motor is set on 65% on 1 power settings, d7 blower motor is set on 60% on eco and 70% on turbo

[@taylorkrumroy7629]

I've read that this can grind up alongside baseboards and scratch them with the hard surface - did you notice any of that?

[@rer1967]

That issue was fixed with the software upgrade. Also, with any robotic vac, you will have to keep the sensors and housing clean per the mfg instructions for the best performance. I've had my D3 almost 3 years and really have no complaints about it.

[@taylorkrumroy7629]

@@rer1967 Welp - I ended up buying the D3 and this thing is amazing lol. Sometimes (1/5 times) it doesn't make it all the way back to the charger correctly and I think that's because it bounces across some of the ledges too quickly and may get slightly off course. But otherwise, this thing is amazing. SUCH a good feeling coming home and everything perfectly cleaned. I just wish I was able to create a second floorplan for my second floor and the fact that I bought a second base for it, but oh well. Still well worth the purchase.

[@rer1967]

@@taylorkrumroy7629, I totally agree with you, it's amazing how much this little robot gets. I pulled out my corded, bagless Eureka Bravo vacuum the other day for the first time in three months for the places my D3 can't reach, just for the heck of it decided to vacuum the area rugs as well, amazingly there was barely anything in the rugs. I can't say enough good things about this D3.

[@mrpostalcode09]

So I ordered a D3 Pro on Amazon and they ended up sending me a D3 (without the blue light) I asked for a replacement. But they ended up sending me the same one. Upon calling them they said there was no D3 pro with the blue light just the grey one one. I also can’t find any videos on KZbin with a D3 Pro review.

[@EliasPerez-cf5gp]

Glad I bought one for $170 on kohls. It also came with 3 HEPA filters, pretty surprising

[@VacuumWars]

Wow! Great deal!

[@auskip07]

Unfortunately my D3 pro has had enough issues in the first week that i dont think its wise to keep it.

[@MataHaji]

Just bought D3 Pro yesterday new for $180, looking forward to set it up and get it going!

[@mutkanx]

Where did u buy?

[@MataHaji]

It was on sale at Target. I follow an app called slick deals where the community posts sales, info on item and link to website. It was only on sale for a day.

[@VictorHernandez-nt3tw]

Oh man that's a great sale and I was just going to brag about finding it for $250 at Best buy LOL

[@asherlopezsioson8927]

I like the color of the d3 pro laser housing because my favorite color is blue👍🏻👍🏻

[@VacuumWars]

Yeah, it does look cool doesnt it!

[@ksks6802]

I'm going to get a roborock s5. But the neato is his recommended vacuum? I'm confused.

[@theerrantwanderer]

This is an old video of his that was released before he reviewed the Roborock robovacs; yes he now recommends a Roborock robot vac

[@laserlemons1577]

I'd love a short video which compares all the different levels of Neato Botvacs.

[@VacuumWars]

Cool, I have a few more of those planned.

[@olamachala]

It works very well.

[@rmkscrambler]

Since all the Neatos are pretty much the same hardware wise it makes you wonder if their is any "binning" taking place. Where all the better preforming components go in the higher end models and the lower end modes get the fans and motors that are still good just maybe have minor flaws that keep them from getting the best performance.

[@VacuumWars]

Interesting thought. I have no idea if its true or not.

[@PhongNguyen-nz9kz]

Your review was due only reason I bought 2 for my house. I got the pro and the connected. The connected I took back because of the WiFi issues. I bought both for less then 250. Lots of deal out there I you look. HD, BBY and TGT is your best bet.

[@VacuumWars]

Awesome, good to hear, and thats a great price!

[@tabbycat406]

The magnetic side brush once came off and I was wondering why my D5 was stuck, until I reached in the rollers wondering what I would find. To my surprise, I found this. My Roombas don’t have this issue, because they use a screw to keep in place. Debatably a good feature on the D5 because of this issue.

[@practicalguy973]

Too bad about the lemons from the Neato. Also it doesn't know where its base is while cleaning and knocks it around. I guess drawing a line in the app for it to stay away would be possible, or would that stop it from returning home to the base!

[@abhisheksethi8869]

So does this have multiple floor plan feature like the d7?

[@jarls5890]

No - but you can buy two D3s for the price of a D7. I.e. you can have one D3 for each floor - and not have the lug the D7 back and forth.

[@Chase_is_a_race]

Anyone interested, you can get a D3 Pro on Walmart’s website, and a 4 year protection plan for about $300. Comes with 3 filters, etc. excellent vacuum, navigates decent and cleans well. Mine liked to beat into things and was destroying its top on something, I returned my D3.

[@danielthan44]

Hello skiped over all my notifications to get here and btw ONE OF MY FAVSZZ

[@VacuumWars]

Thanks Dan! It means a lot!

[@NootNoot947]

Heyy

[@goober24787]

Great review! I love my neato d3

[@VacuumWars]

Thanks, and thanks for stopping by!

[@IcoKirov]

how much of a step can this climb? i'm looking for something that can climb about 2 cm or a step, as there is some height difference from my livingroom to the hallway

[@jarls5890]

2cm should be doable. But not much more. One thing you can do is to put a (stiffish) doormat over the step/threshold that gives the robot a "bridge" to pass from one room to the other if it cant get over as it is. I bought a D3 last week and I am super happy. I considered the D4 up to the D7 but I cant really see much point to the more expensive models as they are nearly identical. Same motors, same brush, same bin, same navigation, same app. You DO get better filters - but the filters are cheap and you can put the higher end filters in the D3. On some of the models you do get a bigger battery - but I seem to have read that you can actually buy the bigger battery and put in the D3 (I need to check this further). So what you get on the D5 and higher models is the side brush - and tests show that that side brush dont do much. And I found the D3 for 299,- so it was a no-brainer to me. I also considered the S5/s50 but to me the D3 seems better.

[@IcoKirov]

@@jarls5890 yeah, I also was thinking of doing some kind of slope if it can't climb it. I'm going to buy it soon

[@redtop32]

Does anyone know a robot vac that can go over shag carpet? Tried the S9 and D7 with no luck?

[@worshishen]

Please do a head to head comparison with the Neato bot and Roborock S50!!

[@VacuumWars]

will do!

[@VacuumWars]

Neato D3 at Amazon: geni.us/Z9gN2H6 Neato D4 at Amazon: geni.us/jq6zk

[@matteventu]

Nice video as always. As others said, I'd love too a review of the Roborock S50. Anyway, a small thing: doesn't the Roborock Xiaowa E25 map too? Other than the Samsung and Neato in this series I mean. Yeah you cannot interact with the map like you can on the one of S50 and other robots with laser navigation, but I think it does have the "recharge and resume cleaning" 🤔 It

[@VacuumWars]

Good point. I didnt mention that recharge and resume of the E25 since I couldnt be sure. I saw some suggestion of it in the user review comments but not in the official literature. It didnt have a camera or a laser so I was hesitant to say. But based on the user reviews I would say it does have recharge and resume even though it doesnt have a camera or laser

[@matteventu]

@@VacuumWars if I'm not wrong, it has an additional optical sensor on the bottom (that Roomba, Shark and others don't have) that helps it to trace the path (in addition to the odometer that calculates the space it travels). The official website of Roborock E25 says that however the "recharge and resume" of the E25 and E35 works for a maximum of two times per cleaning cycle (vs unlimited for the Xiaomi Mi Vacuum and Roborock S50 that have the laser).

[@hongfayianprayong7166]

Great Product

[@woutdel]

LEMON? What is a Lemon? just ordered a used D3+.

[@VacuumWars]

It just means that like most vacuums there is about a 5% defect possibility, defective units are sometimes called lemons. Dont worry though there are still lots of good used units out there.

[@woutdel]

@@VacuumWars would not have guessed that! Thank you for the reply.

[@missv4183]

Beware the dirt bin lid pops open ! And the company didn’t have a solution to fix it

[@VacuumWars]

Ugh. Sorry to hear that.

[@actegratuit995]

Bought a D3 because of this review. Unfortunately I can NOT get it to connect to my wifi at all! Its about worthless to me if I can’t. Searched online and a ton of problems associated with the wifi on the d3 “connected”. Anybody else have this problem? Anyone have a fix?

[@JesseMcConnell04]

Turn off your 5GHZ network or name it something different. Had a lot of issues until i did that.

[@michaelm5480]

Great job. Greetings from Poland

[@VacuumWars]

Thanks! Great to hear from you!

[@VacuumWars]

dzień dobry

[@michaelm5480]

@@VacuumWars Dzień Dobry. Życzę miłego dnia :) And waiting for roborock s50 review

[@No-xl9zd]

It looks cool

[@VacuumWars]

Yeah its a neat vacuum, no pun intended.

[@Hofstader007]

Does the Neato vac work without internet? Does the App work offline?

[@VacuumWars]

Yeah it will work without the internet but you cant use all the features like No Go lines.

[@niteangel27]

Has the Neato D3 /D3 Pro proven to be an ultimately better robot vacuum than the D4? Online store reviews seem to be less than impressive for all of the Neatos and I don't understand why that is but at this point I'm just trying to figure out why the D4, which is supposed to be a slightly better vacuum, is being sold cheaper than the the D3 Pro right now on Best Buy. The only thing that sets them apart is the D4 having the Eco and Turbo setting where as the D3 Pro has just the one so it would seem the D4 would be more expensive and yet it's $100.00 cheaper. Does the D4 model have problems that the D3 Pro is lacking? I've read of some wifi connectivity issues with the Neatos but that seems to be a problem for all of them. Based on test reviews I went ahead and purchased a D4 model since it was cheaper than the D3 Pro and at $299.00, is cheaper than anywhere else at this point. My biggest concern is why is it being sold so much cheaper and should I perhaps go with a more seemingly reliable brand that may not have laser technology?

[@joshuahodge7855]

niteangel27 have you used it yet? If so what are your thoughts so far?

[@niteangel27]

@@joshuahodge7855 I haven't received in the mail yet but I absolutely will come back here and let you know what I think once I've had an opportunity to test it out.

[@GameKollector]

Still waiting on that S5 review.....*sigh*

[@cannesahs]

Well, I had both S5 and D7 same time and returned D7. D7 tried to climb on walls while backing off and lost location middle of cleaning runs resulting it going inside no-go lines area and bump itself repeatedly against same object for over 15min. Not to mention how often it cant find the base. It is also much noisier, mainly b/c of main brush design. Its 4 small wheels are hard plastic, which might not be so good to floor. It moves furniture often and small carpets when turning in place. One pass cleaning is better on D7, but it cant fit places where S5 can and S5 cleans corners & edges better. S5 has edge following sensor located too high for our local houses.

[@rxonmymind8362]

I'm revisiting this video as it has proven to be mostly correct. But I do take issue with your Samsung jetbot AI plus vacuum review. That vacuum is dumb as a box of rocks. How did you manage to get it clean? Mine leaves the bass turn around several times nothing cleans around 10 ft diameter in erratic way followed up by saying " finish cleaning returning to base". My downstairs is 1300 sq ft. I've had this vacuum cleaner for over 8 months in 90% of the time that's all it does. Sometimes it says " something is stuck in my right wheel". I look and there's NOTHING. At other times it will pronounce loudly it is avoiding an obstacle. NOTHING is around it. I'm starting to have serious doubts about your reviews because you never mentioned any of these flaws. I spent good money on this vacuum snd reset it over a dozen times and nothing will get this Samsung to clean the entire downstairs. But your video makes it look like it's done on the first try. $1500 disappointment. My Neato D3 cleans the entire downstairs. Every. Day. No AI either.

[@rxonmymind8362]

Made in San Jose California.👍 Not China.

[@littleburnrrrgaming]

Washers are better

[@luckygirlfromtheislands7592]

Do not buy the Neato D3 PRO is a piece of junk. I have bought 2 and keep getting a clean filter and bin error. It’s brand new

[@comettoPL]

It is probably remainder not error - you could change interval in app.

[@AUTTP_first_officer208]

“Dumb navigation robots” 💀

[@eli-we3mr]

First

[@VacuumWars]

NICE!!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@eli-we3mr]

@@VacuumWars I was waiting because you replied

[@VacuumWars]

Yeah, I was trying to catch up on replying to comments before this posted