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With 30 years in this business I’ve come across a few of these and to be fair some of them have been a good source of income.But the latest one is a bit of a pain – the Creda CTD00P and its equivalents 3 this week already and its only wednesday.Whoever thought that a stretch belt and jockey pulley was a good idea must have had his/her head down the toilet.When the jockey pulley collapses-as is inevitable there is still enough tension in the belt to turn the drum with a small load-albeit noisily until it snaps.Replacing these belts and pulley is a bit of a pain re. previous posts.I think design faults like these should have an award-I nominate a golden turd award-this one deserves 5 golden turds.I’m sure plenty of our correspondents could nominate a few both past and present.
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I think covering up the front of the condenser on their later driers is a massive design fault.. Almost impossible for us to clean them out yet alone the customer.
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The biggest mistake Hotpoint have ever made in the past 30 years is to put the manky, underpowered, over revving two pole motor in the dear departed Top Loader. 😥
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Motor mounted pecker anyone, held on with a spring clip.
Oh those early finishes with a day full of code 2’s.(i.g. calls) those were the days.Tony C
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I think the Hotpoint VTD versions also desrve a golden turd award, not for the fact of being difficult to dismantle but difficult to keep the bloody thing together and square without the drum rubbing the cabinet.
I’d also like to nominate the crossleigh condenser dryer for a Golden Turd, what a lovely quality unit and a total joy to change a belt or front stat on. 😆
Depending on how BIG the turds are or how many catergories they can be nominated for, how about Merloni’s entire range of Servis products? 😈Re: Glaring design faults
cornwell40 wrote:Motor mounted pecker anyone, held on with a spring clip.
Tony CAh…but they did put a cut-out in the back top edge of the cabinet so when the machine danced around the floor the pecker wasn’t snapped off on the cabinet edge….it just got snapped off by the lid that didn’t have a cut-out instead 😆
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I love it when they make a boo-boo, except when it’s a pain of a job. 😉
But how about…
Candy plastic dryer fans. Excellent source of income that was.
Plastic cooling fans from Menenghetti.
Hotpoint suspension (or Hotpoint in general ;))
Door handles that snap when you look at them, choose a manufacturer.
Askol pumps.
Samsung US fridge freezers! 😆
Merloni internal fill hoses, the ones that break.
LG soap dispensers.
All I can think of off the top of my head. 😕
K.
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Hotpoint Creda WD/WM doors failing off with the slightest pressure, good earner but a crap hinge design.
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A favourite job which I’d forgotten about.
Hotpoint WD and late 99 series grub screw on the dryer fan. :rotfl: :rotfl:
What a shile of pit they were. Also getting the fan off the condenser when the 3 screws had a gallon of loctite on them.
Happy days
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Biggest design fault must be Zanussi/E/lux tubs, who thought of putting the screws in from the front? Thus having to take the whole tub out to split the thing! Just relise how much easier it would have been t’other way about, all bearing jobs done with tub in situ! Too easy in it?!
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The biggest Golden turd must go to any Chinese made dishwasher…… nuff said !! 😯
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I do like the current series Hotpoint/Indesit dishwashers with the antiflood system, floods into the bottom with the greatest of ease and knackers the circ. pump, wouldn’t you have thought they would have designed it so the pump wasn’t sitting on the base plate 😥 not to mention the door seal not making contact with the door because of the ridge in the door 😥
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Funny that nobody has mentioned this yet. http://tinyurl.com/yqtmzc
Up there with the most idiotic design of all time. 😥
Jim.
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