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Hi all,
I’ve recently moved into a flat which came with an (extremely noisy!) Indesit WIDL126 washing machine. Apart from the noise, it seems OK, except that steam comes out of the powder drawer when doing a 90 degree wash, is this normal or is it likely that there’s a problem with it? I’m concerned that it might be overheating!
Thanks for any help.
John
Re: Indesit WIDL 126 steaming on 90 degree wash
If it completes the wash then its not unusual, if its noisy then it won’t have long left anyhow. 😉
Re: Indesit WIDL 126 steaming on 90 degree wash
Thanks for the quick reply iadom. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite the response I was hoping for as I’ll now have to pay a call out charge to my landlord for it not being faulty, but at least it’s not going to overheat as I had originally thought!
Re: Indesit WIDL 126 steaming on 90 degree wash
Hello, this is too late for Johndh as the post is months old but I have had the same problem and cured it. It would appear that the washing machine will go through a wash on any cycle and on the cold ones it appears to be fine but on the hot cotton wash (90 degrees) it gets very hot and actually ends up boiling the water in the drum to such an extent that steam comes out of the suds drawer. Mine was actually distorted from the steam. Another symptom of this is that washes take much longer because the temperature sensor isn’t working properly and the water is being heated to a higher temperature. The part you want to replace is the thermistor. It is a circular sensor fitted in the back of the drum above the heater element. It has 2 wires. It takes about 2 mins to replace and costs about a tenner. My machine now washes in the same times stated in the manual and doesn’t steam out my house on a hot wash. Generally when the thermistor fails, the washer stops and displays an error code and I think the position of the experts on this forum is that when a thermistor is on the fritz the machine will not go through a cycle. I can tell you now, the thermistor can be very out of calibration, to the point where the machine will not work properly and it will go through a wash and not display a fault code.
Johndh, not only should you not have had to pay for your call out, but the engineer should have replaced your thermistor. Bad luck.
Re: Indesit WIDL 126 steaming on 90 degree wash
I should have also mentioned that even without damaged bearings or whatever, these machines do seem to make a lot of noise, particularly the speed controller, which seems to emit a high frequency sound that penetrates the building and excites local dogs on a fast spin. The WIDL126 is much louder than the 16 year old machine it replaced and that was a cheap machine too. I suspect that they are built down to a price to enable all of the features to be packed in but noisy operation may be part and parcel of them, without that signalling their imminent demise.
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