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Is it possible to obtain or view a workshop manual or circuit diagram for a Bosch wea24162. I am electrically/electronic competent and have carried out repairs to my old faithfull hotpoint (PS mind your fingers and double check its unpluged)
The thing I’m interested in is the bosch’s method of controlling its water levels during rinsing. Does it use pressure switches or is it just controlled by the timer (microchip) if the latter can this be reprogrammed. I’m wanting to improve its rinsing. I’m sorry I prefer well rinsed clothes.
These days it seems OK to use a power shower, still wash the car with a hose but you have to use a thimble of water to rinse the washing!Re: workshop manual or circuit diagram for bosch wea24162
Firstly you haven’t supplied us with the correct E Nr number(Full model number) of your machine? 😉
Secondly workshop manuals and wiring diagrams are not available to the public and trade alike. Only Bosch’s own service engineers have access to that information. 🙁 Having said that, specific faults and diagnosis is freely available on this site and willing shared to the public at large, if that is, we are privi to that information in the first place.
Engineer, technician, brain surgeon or politician? The electronics of a Bosch washing machine cannot be messed with I’m afraid. It either works or it doesn’t and altering water level switches and tweaking variable capacitors and resistors is a no! no!
Bosch have spent millions of euros getting your machine to work right under many variables. They advise and recommend dozens of programme options in their User Instruction Booklet. The answer to most problems can be found within its pages, if not then give us some specific information and we will advise accordingly. It may simply be a case of putting the wrong garment on the wrong wash cycle ATEOTD? 🙂
Re: workshop manual or circuit diagram for bosch wea24162
The E NR is WAE24162uk/01, Thanks for your reply and your confirmation about servicing information. Its only had a dozen or so washes and I don’t believe the machine has a ‘fault’ and that they are all like this one. My problem is it doesn’t rinse well enough for my likeing. Clothes always smell of washing powder. I always use the extra aqua button, and normally resort to putting it through one or even two additional rinses programmes! I’ve spoken to Bosch about this and they said I need to use a paticular brand of powder. They obviously don’t want to agree it has a poor rinse performance. ‘Which’ the consumer magazine people agree it has a poor rinse along with most of todays washing machines, due to their ever decreasing water consumptions. I even read a government (DEFRA) paper http://www.mtprog.com/ApprovedBriefingN … July17.pdf on washing machine testing that mentions a ‘rinsing efficiency test’ and says ‘this test is needed to ensure that reductions in the amount of water used by an appliance are not achieved at the expense of effective rinsing’ The manufacturers must have got it wrong if everyone has to use the extra rinse button. If washing powder is left in the clothes at the end of each wash after a certain number of washes one wouldn’t need to add powder. In fact do a test, after completeing your wash leave the clothes in for another ‘no powder’ wash and notice all the suds!
From a service engineers prospective they are interested in fixing faults and although a machine that works but has a poor rinse is much better than one that doesn’t work at all, if I can’t sort out the rinsing then I’m looking for different machine.
As an additional point the whole point of using less water is less energy to heat the water and of course less water bills, but along with this we are told we have to do no washing hot or even boil washes to clean out the machine which seems a total waste. My much loved hotpoint is still running after 20yrs (I’ve fitted brushes and new spider/bearings) and has never had a conditioning wash in its life.
I’ve read a lot of people with skin problems also like me are trying to sort a machine with a better rinse. I would be interested if other members views.
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