Every hose on the machine is doing one of two jobs: carrying pressurized solution to the floor or pulling recovered water back through vacuum. When either goes wrong, the flow path is broken and the machine underperforms in a way that's hard to trace unless you know to look for it.
This is the genuine Nilfisk Advance OEM AIR HOSE 50FT W/COUPLING, part number M90053, brand new in the box. Vacuum hoses that go soft collapse under suction; pressure hoses that go hard crack at the fittings. Both problems are quiet and both are common.
If you've been chasing a symptom you can't diagnose, get down under the deck with a flashlight and inspect the hoses inch by inch. Nine times out of ten the answer's there.
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