Hoover Windtunnel MultiCyclonic Bagless Canister - SH40050

I am extremely pleased. This is a great vacuum cleaner.
I had no prior experience with canister vacuum cleaners, so I really didn't know what to expect. I already own an almost new Hoover bagless upright vacuum cleaner for comparison. First of all, the Hoover canister vacuum cleaner has a really great high tech appearance and seems to be well designed and manufactured. The first downside I can see to a canister vacuum cleaner is there are a lot of parts to assemble and store every time you want to use it. I finally decided the best way to store it is to put it back into the original shipping box. So don't throw it away. It makes it fairly easy and compact to store everything. The instruction manual is next to useless. The numbered items were incorrect or missing altogether. I hope somebody from Hoover reads this. It is embarrassing how little was written and how pathetic the mistakes are. So, you've just got to figure everything out by yourself. Thankfully it isn't so difficult.

Now for the good part. With the long hose, you...

Great execution - but it's not perfect
QUICK SUMMARY: Lots of thoughtful design has gone into this well-appointed Hoover canister vacuum. But it's not perfect.

Background: We've used an upright Hoover vacuum since we married (a long time). This is our first canister vacuum. It has a lot of thoughtful design packed into it, but in the end, I think most members of my family would rather still use an upright vacuum instead of a canister model. My whole family has had a chance to use this model, so here's our feedback.

What We LIKE:

- Brush head can be turned off with a touch of a button
- Suction force can be varied by sliding a switch
- Retractable cord
- Cord is marked with a yellow band and a red band indicating when you are almost at the end of the cord and when you should no longer pull it out
- Bagless
- Self-propelled when the brush head is running
- Nice long cord
- Nice Long hose between head of vacuum and canister
- The handle on the...

Starts out great but loses suction.
I decided to wait a few months and use the Hoover Windtunnel Bagless Canister vac for a "break in" period before writing this review. I'm glad I did.

The Hoover Windtunnel Canister is an impressive canister vacuum that delivers powerful performance and several cleaning tools in one "relatively" small package. The foot controls and release levers make it easy to use this vacuum around the house and transition from your living room carpet to cleaning the couch, to the steps in a matter of seconds. It also has sort of a retro style combined with modern bagless vacuum technology and that is kind of cool (if you care about how your vacuum looks).

However, after several months of using this it's clear that there is a noticeable loss of suction compared to when the vacuum was new and fresh out of the box. I've never used one of those overpriced Dyson vacuums, but after this vacuum started to lose its suction I've started to understand why the narrator in those Dyson...

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