My Hoover Air 3 steerable's lower hose broke after years of bumping into sofas and other low furniture. Since I didn't want to change the whole vacuum cleaner, I bought this kit. It seems to have come with hardware I don't need. I only needed the bottom hose and a hard plastic tube. Replacing requires almost complete disassembly of the vacuum head, but be careful not to lose the screws and it's fairly easy. The quality seems to be ok.