Hoover CRUMBLE Dryer

[aquarius1984]

yet more bad news in my books for hoover, upon entering our garage where our hoover ultracare HDV 6 lives i noticed for the 3rd time this year that one of the white plastic lifters from the drum is sat on top of the dryer looking rather pathetic and yet once more i have re inserted it into its slide groove. For the cost of 4 screws, 2 in each lifter Hoover are shattering their own image slowly but surely even in the production of 1 of the most reliable household appliances. The dryer is 2 years old and sounds like an old jallopy squeaking away as it drys. Its poor vent hose may as well be tea bag paper for the holes in it. When is Modern day Hoover going to stop making such rubbish i wonder? . . . . .Nick

 

[toggleswitch]

IMHO, if they can sell trash as respectable product, someone will try!

 

[sparkcymru]

hoover dryer

I had the misfortune to purchase a Hoover 6Kg condensor dryer. I have to say it was a big mistake. The lower cover where the water tank is held snapped off its lugs within 3 days use. The Water tank full light never came on, the condensor was poor as the windows steamed up quite a bit and then the dryer would stop mid cycle and not restart but the timer would continue to the end. If you could get it going again with a prayer and a good thump you were lucky. Oh and it squeeked loudly eveytime it reversed! I didn't even bother getting Hoover out under warranty i just sold it to someone else as i wanted it out of my sight. I'm not sure if things have improved in the current new line of products but i hope so.
Steve

 

[robm]

Whatever happened to Hoover

As a child I remember loads of people had Hoover products. Though never top of the range they seemed well made and designed. However, over the years their quality has diminished.

In the 90s I remember an advertising stunt where Hoover were offering free holiday flights if as much you bought a vacuum cleaner, let alone a washing machine. Apparently, the whole thing was a disaster. I seem to rememeber Hoover being on the news and Watchdog. I believe they lost thousands. I think it was about then there was a shake up and things went down hill.

Sadly (and I'm not an expert) Hoover are nothing like they used to be and are now really just Candy under a different name. How things change!

 

[lavamat_jon]

Yup, it was that dreaded free flights campaign that saw the beginning of the end for Hoover... lost not thousands but millions I believe.

Jon

 

[sparkcymru]

and another thing about Hoover

What's really annoying me at the moment is that Hoover have actually made the drum lifters for the whole New Wave, soft wave, classica range obsolete. So i'm trying very hard to track down remaining stock to fix this wonderful new wave machine in my possession. I've found one and hope to have the others this week if i'm really lucky. Its terrible because there are thousands of these machines running and if someones drum lifter breaks the machine would have to be scrapped all for the sake of a £3 part. All other parts seem to still be current but i guess its only a matter of time. Even Indesit still do parts for their machines from the 80's and this New Wave is a 1996 model. Grrrr to Hoover. I'm not happy.
Steve

 

[aquarius1984]

i really dont know why mum bought it after the palava over the hoover quattro we had. I must ask but im guessing she must have confused herself with which washer we were on at the time when choosing it and thought the wm 62 was a hoover. Hoover robbed the wm series hotpoint design with the oval buttons in a curved design on the drawer side of the machine which is what this dryer has. nick