Hoover products sold by major outlets such as Traget, Wal-Mart, and others...simply are cr*p and not full Hoover specifications. Swithes, brush rollers, and other parts will wear out quickly.
Not because they are made in China as China can make high-end things to U.S. company specs or garbage to specs depending on what is needed. Note the new Boeing JUmbo Liner 777/787 is mae in six sections in China and shipped to Everett, WA. Or, they can make cheap dolls for Mattel with bad chemicals and then the company points the finger at China. Ask Snap-On Tools how it is that their plants in the United States are closed but they their tools are still stamped "Made in USA?"
U.S. companies have gone on the cheap to increase profits. That is now the American way.
Ralph Law, May 2008