Hoover PurePower PU2120

[alexhoovers94]

Here is the Hoover purepower that I bought brand new in 2010, I have had two of these prior to this one from 2002 another from 2008 and then this one from 2010 as you can probably tell they don't seam very reliable do they!? lol however this one seams to be holding up well so that is ok.

This vacuum cleaner is very average they clean ok but they were a disaster compared to the Turbopower 2 there a quite a few flaws that you probably already know but I will address anyways.

In 1997 Hoover brought out the purepower, which originally was supposed to replace the turbopower 2, however the turbopower 2 continued on sale next to the purepower un till about 2002/2003.
When these machines came out Hoover was just going down hill, every little think about the purepower was an annoyance, fist of all when using the hose the machine would just fall over because they were relatively light weight and was just generally a bad design were the hose was located, the handle release was so hard to depress you practically had to jump on it do recline it, and because of this the handle release would ware out very quickly and start snapping down with even the slightest pressure on the handle, they would always over heat and they had a problem with leaning back after a while and then falling over.

I don't really think there are any positives to out weigh the negatives, they are not very well thought out in design in my opinion but they still look kind of cool all the same. I think it is a shame to know these machines are not very good when it was actually a Hoover design, ahh well never mind.

Anyway I have ranted enough here are some pictures of the machine.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Because this is a newer purepower there are a few differences such as you can see on some of the pictures, the newer purepower logo thing, it looks slightly different on older versions and where is says hoover was lower down the machine, I like how it says "The Hoover Cleaner" though.

 

[alexhoovers94]

As you can see there is like a little marked out area around the switch, that would of been where the "autosense" and bag full indicater light was on very early models.

 

[alexhoovers94]

As you can see there is like a little marked out area around the switch, that would of been where the "autosense" and bag full indicater light was on very early models.

 

[twocvbloke]

I had a Hoover Purepower that I salvaged, it had a melted lock thing which connects to the release pedal, it had melted cos the belt had slipped off and came into contact with parts it shouldn't have, a bad design really, and I didn't like how it's 1800w motor dimmed the lights when I tested it, ended up just pulling it apart and throwing it out as it was just too annoying to work with... :&#92

And I think Hoover should look up the victorian definition of "Pure", cos that's all I think when I see "PurePower"....

 

[alexhoovers94]

Also older versions of the pure power would of said on the "carpet care control" short carpet, medium carpet, long carpet/hardfloors and luxuary carpets/tools as you can see here it says intensive clean (lol what ever) short carpet/hard floors, medium carpet and luxuary carpet. I like how it says "power edge cleaning" because it can't really, not like the turbo 2 can.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Here you can tell mine is suffering from the leaning and falling over syndrome, lol.

 

[jmurray01]

Not a patch on the Turbopowers!

You're on your third Purepower, whereas my 1994 HOOVER Turbopower 1000 is 18 years old and still working as well as your 2 year old Purepower.

And, where has the Autosense gone on the new ones ?

Perhaps more importantly, where the hell is the Bag Full indicator!? I don't particularly like the Bag Full indicator as it only comes on when the bag is jam packed, but it still has its uses for people who don't know much about Vacuum Cleaners and don't check the bag.

 

[alexhoovers94]

The back.

 

[alexhoovers94]

I updated this with an activator brushroll because the red one that was in it was utter crap, it was a noisy brushroll and did not do a good job at all.

 

[alexhoovers94]

The somewhat edge cleaning brushes.

 

[jmurray01]

Power Edge Cleaning my exhaust filter. The Turbopower 2/1000 as you rightly said worked BRILLIANTLY at cleaning up to the skirting boards, but I know from personal experience that it does no such thing.

Intensive clean ? Give me a break.

Oh yeah, two years old and already leaning ? My 1994 Turbopower 1000 doesn't lean a single centimeter even after years of daily use.

THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THEY USED TO.

 

[alexhoovers94]

The basic Hoover cleaning tools, which I like alot, I hate all this silly combination tools and missing the upholstery tool out all together, the only problem though with these tools are because you put the crevice tool in the tools to make a longer reach they make a very loud hissing noise because the machine has a lot of suction.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Newer bigger hoover badge.

 

[alexhoovers94]

And finally I will leave you with the serial number sticker.

 

[jmurray01]

That Activator Brush Roll will have improved things slightly I suppose.

I wouldn't use it for hard flooring on the Short Pile setting with the activator though. On my Turbopower 1000 with an Activator the hard flooring setting is coupled with the Long Pile setting.

 

[alexhoovers94]

The activator brushroll in the purepower has certainly made the brushroll quiter however it doesn't improve the performance that much, I meen compared to the turbopower 2 the brushroll on the purepower spins way to fast to beat and groom the carpet like the turbopower 2 did, I meen the turbopower 1 cleaned alot better than the turbo 2 however the turbo 2 was still very good also.

 

[jmurray01]

Yes, that's true, the 800 and 1000 Watt motors in the two versions of Turbopower 2 were perfect at getting the brush roll to spin at the right RPM.

2100 Watts spins the brush roll too fast.

 

[vintagerepairer]

They may not make them like they used to, but then they don't charge for them like they used to. As well as the quality of goods declining, so has the retail price. In a way, the consumer has only themselves to blame by wanting cheap goods in the first place. So really one could argue that we are only getting what we pay for.

Not only this, goods which we think lasted longer years ago were also able to accept a cost effective repair. Goods were built to permit repairs and places were available to make this happen. So items which have lasted well may only have done so because it was possible to keep them going.