Hey everyone, here is my Hoover Turbopower 2 U2090 in an inordinately bright shade of Alpina Yellow.

I got this off eBay last week for £15 the seller was lovely, he was showing me how to use it and I was thinking, yes...I know, I do have 4 already! Bless him. It was in very good condition and the seller let me test it before I bought it and it runs great before and after I cleaned it.

This was the first of the two styles of model U2090, the first one which came out in 1997 was styled like this (pictures bellow) and the other later model from about 2000-2003 had the naff, tacky, cheap lettering on the bag door and cleaner head, but still had the same specification, obviously.

As the Purepower was released at that time (1997) this model was quite a run down Turbopower 2, with no bag-full light and Hoover didn't even include a dusting brush with this model, as it says in the manual, yet it still has the moulding for it!! Even though this model cost only about £99.99 at that time, I still feel it was better than those Purepowers, despite the stonger suction and the top end Purepower was double the price of this Turbopower 2 model!

I didn't need to do much to this apart from give it a good clean and change the filters, the seller provided me with an Electrolux Powerline belt for it!! Bless him. He even gave me the manual, extra bags order form and the guarantee card which were all brandnew and factory sealed in it's packet!! I shall be posting pictures of that later on in the thread.

Now, here is a few before pictures with the after pictures to follow it and then finally the manual.

This is the eBay listing picture, because I stupidly forgot to take a before picture of the assembled machine!

This is the post motor filter I took out and there is the new one I put in after I cleaned the machine up. This is a prime example of the general consumer!

This is what happes when you suck up something wet...That was a bitch to clean out of the crevice tool!

The same same thing had been sucked up with the upholstory tool, by the looks of it.

I found stones in the motor cavity, so that was what the rattle was when I was taking it to the car. I am not exactly sure how they found there way in there!

A nice soapy bath for all the plastic parts. :)

Front.

I found a spare dusting brush so I popped it on, since it never came with one!

I got 1997 from Argos 97 and it features this model (U2090) but it does show the dusting brush, short crevice too and narrow bore hose, mine is from a year later and has no dusting brush or short crevice tool but it does state my model on the manual and inside it says it only comes with a wand, long crevice tool and upholstory tool.

The later Turbopower 2's still performed to the same high standard but they were a little bit "shoddily" put together than the earlier ones, as can be seen by the gap between the body and the bag door.

Apparently, this is called the "special addition 900 watt" Turbopower 2

How will I know when my bag is full?.........

I think it didn't actually because other Turbopower 2 models that did have it had a line ground into the plastic behind it where it was stuck on, so the "roundle" could be lined up to the correct angle as you can see, this one doesn't.

Earlier models had a ducting which was half the size of that...Hoover claimed on the Turbopower 3 that this wider ducting and the longer, wider hose gave you 35% extra suction power than previous Turbopower 2 models, but all later Turbopower 2's had this wider ducting and mine is proof of that.

Yh, that sounds about right then. :)

Believe it or not, but I sat over the bath for about half and hour with an old tooth brush cleaning inbetween every square on the inside of that bag door, it paid off though. :D

Eventually I got that crap that was almost fused to the inside of the crevice tool.

I managed to get it off the uphostory tool as well! I also stuck the velour strip back on that just fell of when I first removed the tool from the machine.

Yes I did...I think that the picture might of been taken years before, the reason why I think this is because when I washed some of the plastic parts in the bath, the bag door said it was made in 1993, the hood said it was made in 1991! and the body was made in 1994, since the plastic was made for this machine years before it was out (from my knowledge) maybe pictures of an assembled machine before the Turbopower 3, as that is when they did away with the short crevice tool on the Turbopower 2, maybe they assemled one of these yellow ones and photographed it in the earlier 90's ready for Argos to put it in their catalouge in a few years time. That is my thought on the subject.

At the bottom of the rear of the machine, you can see a circular cut out, if you will, where on Turbopower 3 models there would of been a little hook to attach the hose to, so the machine didn't fall over when cleaning upholstory.

This one was made in 1998 and was the 21 st one off the production line, this is the newer type "Candy dating system" after the serial number there is another set of 4 four numbers, as you can see that is "9821" indicating it was the 21'st one off the production line, unfortunately, I don't think you can get a month from this style of dating system...This dating system applies for the new "Hoover" modles.

It says it is made in the E.C which is either Lisbon (Spain) or Cambuslang (Scotland, UK) I reckon this was probably made over here though. ;)

The Purepowers of the same time had an Activator but it had shorter, softer brushes and less pronounced beater pads than  the Turbopower 2 brushroll.

As I stated earlier, the seller gave me the original manual, extra bags order form and guarantee card, unfortunately, I don't have a scanner so I took photos of them, I hope this doesn't spoil it for you!

There it is in it's original sealed packet...Isn't it weird to think that the documents inside the bag have not been touched by human hands in 15 years.

I know some of you would of kept that bag unopened, but curiosity got the better of me!!

Front.

After opening the front cover, this is what we see.

A little flap/envelope for the order form/guarantee to send off.

That adress must of been the nearest Hoover dealer from the sellers location which was Oldam, Manchester, so it is probably mine too. I wonder if it is still there?...

Front.

The parts diagram...As you can see it shows no dusting brush for this model. 

it is in two sections, so this is section 1.

The top left hand corner tells you about the on/off switch and the cleaning tools, which by the way you can see that it shows this model has no dusting brush.

A warning and imprortant note as well as the user checklist.

the "clearing a blockage"

The "cleaning filters"

The "changing the bag"

The "replacing the belt and brushes"

Thanks for reading, if you made it right the way through! Haha. Alex.

Well, the colour is rather striking to say the least, I had to take it downstairs for fear of loosing sleep over it! :P I do however love the colour, you can tell they were from the 90's were fashion was at it's brightest!

The Turbopower 1's that we had were not the best built machine, but they were not terrible or cheaply built, the plastic was just rather thinnner in areas that it should of been thicker! The Turbopower 2 (released in 1992) was FAR more sturdy and not to mention quieter! The Turbopower 2 didn't perform as well as the good old dirty air Turbopower 1 but they were still dam good!

I was really pleased with the condition of this machine, it had the odd few marks and scuffs on it but overall it is pretty good.

You got the windtunnle in 1997, didn't you? I have used one of the early Hoover windtunnles that my friend owns, it is VERY good but it is WAY to loud. :P I also Have our version of your Hoover Elite 200...The Hoover Turbolite, it is a very good machine, I still didn't think it was AS good as our Turbopower 1's or Turbomaster, the Turbomaster/Innovations are REALLY good!

Alex.

James - Thankyou :)

Sam - Thanks and your welcome :) I could do with cleaning off some of those marks around the bumper.

Scott - The Turbopower 2's never had any issues from my experience, the only issue they had was that the brushroll bearings were prone to going bad rather quickly and were VERY noisy after a number of uses. The Activator was very good, although the Turbolite/Elite 200 does have a very decent brushroll. I like the look of both the Turbopowers and the Elites for different reasons, although, the Elites seem to have more "sticky out bits" than the Turbopowers, they look more "flush" if you see what I mean.

Jamie - Thanks.

Alex.

Oh, I forgot to put the Yellow Turbopower 2 on the photo, didn't I? Aww shucks!

Anyway, aside from my 'sense' of humour with the Turbopower 2's pardon the pun :) Ok, I will stop now, you can see that they are all in order of specification, starting with highest spec on the left.

There you can see the rear of the machines, you can see how they took away the short crevice tool on the later Turbopower 2's after the Turbopower 3 came out.

That was why there was a "cut out" on later Turbopower 2's it was were you could hook a rubber "dudar" on the hose to secure it to the rear of the machine while you cleaner upholstory, to prevent the machine from falling over.

This is what I meant, where I said earlier in the thread that behing the Hoover roundle there was a line in the plastic to correctly configure the angle of the roundle.

Yh, I see what you mean Benny, this is a 900 watt version, however. I do have another standard version, pictured above, model U2462, that has an 800 watt motor and seems more higher pitch sounding than this, although, that model has the original narrow internal ducting and this 900 watt version, like my Turbopower 3 has a wider ducting, could that be the reason it sounds different? Apart from the 900 watts difference. :P