Hoover H160e faulty / overheated motor. Replace or new WM?

Hi there – hoping someone might be able to help!

We own a Hoover H160e Time 1600 washing machine which we’ve been running daily for nearly 6 years. In the past couple years parts have started failing and I’ve already replaced the pump motor (due to water damage / corrosion), door hinge, main PCB / logic board and most recently the brushes (approx 2 months ago).

Just when I thought the machine was running quite well it appears that the main motor has now also packed in. 😡

The first symptom was that there was a bit of a dodgy hot smell. It was only minor and I wasn’t totally convinced it was coming from the washing machine. I let it finish its cycle which it did ok as usual.

Promptly forgetting about the hot / slightly burny smell we’d noticed earlier, we carried on using the machine daily for a couple of weeks with no problems.

Then yesterday my partner noticed that the WM had been stuck on the same part of a rinse cycle for about two hours. I checked basic things but couldn’t spot anything obvious. I tried a few other programs but on each the WM refused to spin up to speed and wouldn’t progress further through the program.

Fearing a faulty logic board (again) or hopefully just worn brushes (unlikely asonly 2 months old) I shuffled the WM out for a look inside.

I was shocked to see that on the floor, where the WM had been sitting, was a pile of what looked like little bits of metal. On closer inspection they turned out to be tiny bits of wire coated in blobs of melted solder which had been extruded into long thin stands as if flung with some force! 😯

Upon taking the back off the WM, I was immediately surprised at the heat been thrown back at me even though it’d been unplugged for an hour or so.

Quickly guessed that the motor had failed and removed it for closer inspection. One end (the armature / communicator / brushes end) looked absolutely fine, but the other end was a mess! Blobs of melted solder, bits of wire sticking out , little bits of metal missing. Wow – wasn’t expecting that! Suprisingly though the motor still appeared to turn fairly smoothly.

So, my question is, what is likely to have caused this? 😕

I’m hoping all I need to do is spend £100 on a new motor but maybe something else caused the motor to fail and I’d be better purchasing a new machine??

Unfortunately budget is very tight and the cheapest most economical option is very tempting but without knowing the cause I’m worried I may end up burning the new motor and £100 – not sure what to do.

My little’uns sicky clothes are building up so I need to be relatively quick…. I don’t think mum-in-law would appreciate too much washing form us!

Hugely grateful for any advice!

Cheers
Stef