Hoover TurboPower Product Lineup

thehooverman · Jun 18, 2013

My TurboPower 4200

Pretty Rare
has embedded dirt finder
pretty much the same as a 4000 just has dirt finder

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cuffs054 · Jul 29, 2014

My TurboPower 4000

I recently stumbbled across my HOVER TURBO POWER 4000 with MICRO FILTRATION and 20 cleaning effectiveness per amp! At 7.3 amps that's over 140 CEs! I'm careful to keep the pets away. Can anyone shed some light on this thing? I've found a number of other TP's but not the 4000. I'm not sure what the "micro filtration" is all about. The full bag indicator appears not to trigger until the bag is in danger of explosion. Suction is still very strong and attachment suction is surprisingly strong. Thanks for any info you can tell me.

cuffs054 · Jul 30, 2014

The only manual I can find that comes close says the brush roll bearings are able to be oiled. This is way new to me! Can I tell be looking, turning, listening, when they need oil? What kind of oil should I use?

fan-of-fans · Aug 2, 2014

JCPenney

I have a J CPenney catalog with TurboPowers in it. In recent years the catalogs had very few vacuums and most were off-brands. I don't recall any vacuums displayed in-store until very recently, within the last year or few.

cuffs054 · Aug 2, 2014

FoF, is it a current catalog? Do they show different models?

jcste09 · Aug 10, 2014

Here is my

Turbopower lineup. Both found at Goodwill. The PowerDrive is missing the dusting brush but both work great.

citroenbx · Aug 10, 2014

this is in the U.K

turbo500 · Aug 11, 2014

this is in the U.K

That's a Turbopower 2 and is in no way linked to the original UK Turbopower apart from it's name.

This is the original Turbopower line up from 1983.

turbo500 · Aug 11, 2014

The use of the name "Turbopower" on the TP2, 3 and TP1000 actually really irritates me. The whole thing that made the cleaner "Turbopower" in the first place was the high power dirty fan motor combined with the newly designed activator brushroll. The TP2 is clean air, thus removing the "Turbo" part of the power really.

The only reason that the name was used is because the TP1 was the biggest selling cleaner for the best part of the 80's and Hoover wanted to keep associated with that name to continue the high sales.

suctionselector · Aug 11, 2014

Chris...

And what rubs even more salt into the wounds is Hoover's use of TurboPower on the new cleaners, completely thrusting the public's opinion of what once was a great cleaner, now just on cheap bagless rubbish.

turbo500 · Aug 11, 2014

completely thrusting the public's opinion

I think the public opinion of Hoover went down the pan years ago, regardless of what they call their machines now. Plus, I highly doubt that the average public, with a few exceptions, will even remember that the Turbopowers were called Turbopowers.

DesertTortoise · Aug 11, 2014

The only Hoover vac I have ever owned is a U5133-940 Caddy Vac. I am interested in some of the canister Hoovers shown, or maybe a Futura or Dimension 1000, but have never once seen any of these. Are they better made and quieter than the Caddy Vac?