John Lewis JLWM1201 Washer – Help Please

We have the above washer, which is about 4 years old. It had a problem in its first year under guarantee. The repair man said, “I’ll be seeing you again, these are made by Zanussi (or was it Electrolux?)” The wife’s mother also had one replaced after 18 months due to a PCB fault making it uneconomic to repair, so I’m not too impressed with the brand.

Anyway, ours has failed again. It is just completely dead – no display, no LED’s, zilch, zip, nada.

I’ve tried all the obvious external stuff like supply and fuse before I strip it down, but two questions spring to mind…….

1. Is/are there any internal fuses on the PCB or elsewhere that I might get lucky by changing?

2. Is it likely that this is just going to be another expensive PCB fault that I won’t be able to diagnose myself?

I could go through the motions with a multimeter, could even put a scope on it if I knew what to measure and where. I’m not beyond rebuilding a PCB (I did just that on my Whirlpool American fridge). But frankly if I can’t sort it myself I’m loathe to waste a call-out fee if I’m going to be shelling out for another washer anyway.

Many thanks!