Hoover Upright Rubber Foot Pad
$6.99
Product details
A rubber foot pad seats against the underside of a Hoover upright, and it does two unrelated jobs at once. It damps the buzz that would otherwise carry straight from the motor housing into a hard floor, and it keeps bare plastic off wood and tile whenever the machine is parked upright between passes. This pad, part 38426071, is listed for the Hoover U7079.
Foot pads wear thin gradually, and the failure is easy to miss because nothing stops working when it happens. The first sign most owners notice is sound: the machine turns buzzier and looser-feeling on hardwood once the cushion between plastic and floor is gone. The second sign shows up later and costs more, a scuff or scratch where the housing has been resting directly on a finished surface for weeks before anyone realized the pad had already gone. On carpet the missing pad is far less noticeable, since the machine rarely rests flat on a hard surface there, which is part of why homes with mixed flooring often go longest without spotting it.
Replacing a foot pad is among the simplest jobs on the machine. Clean the mounting spot of grit and any residue left by the old pad before fitting the new one, so it seats flat and does not sit crooked at an edge. A pad that has hardened rather than fallen off is also worth swapping, since aged rubber loses most of its cushioning long before it actually detaches.
- Part: 38426071
- Fits: Hoover U7079 upright
- Function: vibration-damping rubber foot pad, base underside
- Replace when: pad is missing, thin, or sits proud of the housing
Check the pad against your machine before ordering, and confirm U7079 on the model plate, since that is the only model this pad is verified against.