Where To Buy Hoover U5140-900 Tempo Widepath Bagged Upright Vacuum

I ordered mine because a local exchange raised their price from $67 (& no tax) to $89, so back to Amazon I went.

I got mine in under 2 weeks for around $68, (it's $67 currently) and even though it's a bit heavy, it's performance more than makes up for the heavy weigh before you turn it on.

Once you turn it on, even in the high setting, the brush digs into the carpet so well that it almost feels like a self-propelled version that Hoover used to make a few decades ago.

It has 6 openings in the brush all around 2" wide and I'm still amazed at the clean bag area as I have a dirt devil that has good suction too, but somehow the fine dust leaks out of the filter bag and into the bag shell (cover), so far, very little fine dust has leaked into the bag shell area, to me this means the bag is actually trapping all of the dirt, (well more than my dirt devil) and because it has an adjustable brush height, it doesn't loose suction like my auto surface adjustment dirt devil does.

The cord wraps sort of different than my old hoover, but the cleanliness of the inside and outside make up for this strange new layout.

It has one attachment that doesn't always stay in it's spot on the back of the vacuum, but it usually only comes off if you allow it to hit the floor too hard, it takes bumping against the baseboard quite well, it doesn't feel like it's going to start falling apart.

My old Hoover used only one screw to hold the handle assembly in place for the final assembly, the Tempo has 2, I think this will pay off in allowing it to withstand more long-term vibration without the screw coming loose prematurely.

The accessory hose is easy to use as long as you have the power cord fully payed out from the wraping posts, otherwise you'll have to do that first to avoid tangling the cord and hose.

One last observation: I really like the fact that my vacuuming time is much shorter as I don't have to re-sweep an area several times before the dirt is sucked up, that alone makes this worth the trouble lugging it around when the power is off, and contrary to some other reviews, some of my other vacuums require hearing muffs, (like my dirt devil), this Tempo isn't that loud compared to my old Hoover, which cost me twice as much to buy back in the 90's and the only thing I use it for is vacuuming a rug we have in the garage in front of the washer/dryer, I have to use hearing protection using this old hoover because if it wasn't for my wife breaking the motor mount on one side by banging it down too hard, I would have had to toss it if i wasn't able to jury-rig a motor mount for the broken side.

Anyway, I fail to see why some of the past reviews thought the Tempo was too loud, (although I did notice that if you don't fully seat the vacuum bag cover and you try to use it with the cover prongs seated in the first
indentation on the bottom, instead of the 2nd area closest to the bag, it will make a noticable hissing sound from the air leaking past the cover seal) to remedy this, make sure the cover prongs are placed into the larger of the 2 areas where the cover prongs will fit.

My bag is almost half-way filled and I still see little dust leakage inside the front cover.

One last note, the Tempo has a hardware seemingly permanent HEPA filter on the right of the bag area with the cover off, so far I don't see this as a problem as the air coming out of the filter smells really fresh unlike some vacuum where the Hepa filter is the first thing to clog up, especially on the bag-less type vacuums, for the money, the Tempo is the best all around performer, it has 2 easy to hold hand holds for using it on stairs, although I don't use it on bare floors, I imagine with the brush design, it might kick dirt around on a bare floor, for that, an auto-floor adjusting vacuum like my dirt-devil might be a better suited for this specific task.Get more detail about Hoover U5140-900 Tempo Widepath Bagged Upright Vacuum.