AEG Favorit 40660 – Unable to fill

had problems with the machine for the past 6-8 months not rinsing or drying properly. Finally it ended a couple of days ago when the heater obviously went as the wash did not clean at all. The wash before something must have went as it triped the main RCD. The wife had teh washing machine and dishwasher both on at the time so it was difficult to identify the problem.

Any how I thought I would look at changing the heater element and noted a number of potential alternative faults on this forum. I therefore:

1. Inspected the PCBs and checked the soilder joints. Two on teh relay look slightly discourted but still o.k.

2. Checked all wireing to ensure no loose connections.

3. Took inline heating element out and it looked fine, but I have yet to try teh multi meter across the terminals to check the resistance.

Put all back together and restarted the machine to see if it worked, but noticed a small leak from the rubber pipe going to the heater element, which although i mended set of the antiflood switch.

I tilted the machine etc and emptied all the water and left it to dry over night. However now have a fault light flashing in sequence 2 short flashs – Manual refers to sink spigot is blocked or drain hose is not correctly posistioned.

Any ideas?

I can put a cup of water in eth machine, it will drain out in the first part of teh cycle, then there is a pause before the next cycle which lasts about 30 sec before the fault lights come up again. No water enters the machine.

It was a £300 machine almost 5 years ago, so I am tempted to scrap it and buy another. Happy to spend £50 if it gets it going.

Rob