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madabouthoovers

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Well today I went to collect my first Hoover TP2 with Autosense. Yes Autosense, the one to have. Its the all singing all dancing model with the pretty lights and loved by Alexhoovers94, who I am sure will be very exited at seeing these pics of it in its raw just acquired state, before I have stripped It down for cleaning.

It works fully, including the autosense, but requires a new belt and filters, and the brushroll is noisy. The motor however runs very nicely which is the main thing. As most turbopwers of the era did, this model has also lost its red hoover roundel off the handle. It stinks of dogs too, so I threw the old bag out. It came from what I think was a house clearance and has been stood for a while hence its covered in dust, and loking quite frankly very sorry for itself.

It cost me the princely sum of a fiver plus a 30 mile drive to fetch it.

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Nice one, Steve - looking forward to seeing it cleaned up in it's full glory. I was never a fan of the autosense feature - I always found it very annoying. But they're great machines to own. Happy Hoovering!
 
I always found Autosense annoying!

I do prefer the styling of the T2 Autosense and T1000 with the 2 buttons, I just wish it had the option for variable power OR autosense (like the Miele Automatics and Panasonic Icon) as "automatic" modes of this nature were never something I liked. I want my carpet consistently clean, not cleaner in some parts than others. Also, due to the design of the autosense, it doesn't detect things like pet hair or other lighter debris.
 
Yes, but its a gadget, and when I was in my early 20's many many moons ago, I bought one of these brand new, the TP3 model with autosense and the permabag. It was the top of the range model back then and had to compete with the Dyson DC01, so Hoover needed to make it as good as possible to draw people away from Dyson's offering. But we all know now the outcome sadly. Dyson stole the market away from Hoover, and now these models have all but died out - tossed aside into the dumps around the country as old fashioned technology that no-one wanted. Its only those models put away in lofts and the back of garages that now survive for us collectors so we should seize them with all haste and make sure they get preserved.
As far as I'm concerned, the TP2 was the best Hoover I ever had, I loved them. They were in my opinion, the last of the great Hoovers. The Purepower was not a patch on the Turbopwer 2.

Well I suppose I'd better order the bits I need for it up from Buydustbags and then start stripping it down.......
 
Dyson stole the market away from Hoover

That's not entirely true.

Hoover did themselves absolutely no favours with Free Flights and only have themselves to blame for their demise. Throughout the 80's and 90's, Hoover were always 1 step behind the competition. It was 1992 before they brought out a clean air machine with onboard tools, whereas Electrolux and Panasonic had been at it since 1986. Even the Turbomaster and Turbopower total systems were just an old design with a hole cut in the side and a hose shoved on it. They were far too out-dated and were struggling anyway. Free flights was meant to put Hoover back on the map and for a while, during the first promotion with the European flights, it did.

James Dyson has also admitted he never wanted to make vacuums. He tried to sell his technology to Hoover and was laughed out the door.

With Hoover down the pan, Dyson was able to creep in to the market at the perfect time as the vacuum buying public, who had been faithful to Hoover and Electrolux for years, were crying out for something new. People didn't want to buy Hoover's anymore with the companies reputation in tatters and with Dyson's incredibly clever marketing ploy and gimmicks, the UK consumers started buying Dyson's instead.

The combination of Hoover's self-enduced demise and the perfect timing by Dyson are what killed off Hoover and led to the success of Dyson.
 
Shame Hoover had to turn out like they have now, I mean they're still good but obviously not like they were by the sound of it.
 
Pleased

that someone agrees with me when I said recently that the timing was impeccable for Dyson. What Hoover Europe did with that free-flight fiasco was handing James Dyson a share of the vacuum cleaner market on a plate. Hoover couldn't have planned it better, but the as the saying went, "Hoover - who better?".
 
Chris...

Why did Hoover need to change their, already excellent design that sold so well, why? Electrolux did that with the 600 series and what happened? The cleaner was not as good as the 500 series, just because they wanted to have the machine have on-board tools.
Hoover kept their design as it sold so well and modified it to have attached tools, which worked adequately.
Then they brought out the Turbopower 2 and sacrifced performance.
 

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