Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: 9 months and I'm looking for a replacement

I too was bamboozeled by Consumer Reports. The brush and propulsion stopped working after only 4 months. The guy at the vacuum repair shop laughed and me and showed me all of the other Hoover self-propelled vacs that were in for the same repair. Then the plastic footstep that keeps the unit locked upright broke off, so now the vac lies on the floor between uses. It does clean great, when it works.