Bosch Excell 1400 Intermitent Spin Problem

Hi, I’m a newbie here but found this site and thought it would be a good place to start to try and find out why my Bosch Excell 1400 washing machine has just started to exhibit a weird problem.

I noticed a couple of weeks ago the washing was still very wet after the wash cycle had finished. I set the spin cycle again and noticed that it could not achieve maximum spin speed, it would start to spin up and gradually build up speed but before it reached max speed it stopped spinning, turned the drum a couple of times then the program timer dropped to 1min and that was that.

So I called a man in a van and he was flummoxed, the problem would happen with or without washing in the drum. He thought at first that it was a problem with the machine unable to balance the load (it was towels and a towelling dressing gown so quite heavy when wet) but that was disproved when it did the same thing with no washing in the drum. He then thought that changing the brushes may resolve the problem although he wasn’t convinced it was the cause of the problem however after putting new brushes in it would not spin at all. So he decided to put the old brushes back in (they are worn but not to the point they do not work) sprayed a small amount of WD40 on the motor and hey presto it started working again. The man in a van told me that it was possible that a piece of one of the brushes may have come off and was short circuiting and became dislodged when he took the motor out and sprayed the WD40 on it, anyway off went the man in a van and we were left with a working appliance again until that is last weekend when the problem came back.

At this point I should say that the machine is just over 5years old it is used regularly but not every day and how annoying that it is just out of the 5 year extended warranty I took out on it.

Anyway the problem came back so I tried the spin cycle setting and as before it would start to spin up with or without washing in the drum and then give up before reaching top speed and then end the spin cycle.

I called Bosch this time and have a engineer booked for this Thursday but when we did a wash on Sunday (knowing we’d have to use a neighbours machine to spin off the load) it worked fine again and has done for every load (about 3) since then.

I’m now baffled about what it could be (I’m no expert in such things) and I am contemplating cancelling the engineer and saving myself a £65 call out charge.

Any help, ideas, suggestions would be gratefully received.

Thanks 😕