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Why does it always happen when you are doing a cheaper than normal job for a mate 😥
He had a HP wm52 with all the usual faults but had the later FHP stylee motor fitted at some point. Pump, door boot and the bearings getting noisy.
I’ll do the parts at trade and a pint, and a bit of labour.
So after all the parts were fitted, machine meggered, took out the motor plug to water test it. All fine, switch off, plug motor back in BANG. What the flip!!!!! 😯 Timer tracks in bits.
Meggered the motor, tests ok. Meters out ok, no problems.
So after a few minutes investigation and head scratching I started looking at the new motor, and there it was!! Instead of fitting the new plug to the loom, the clown who replaced it had shaved off the locating guides on the old plug.
Oh joy 👿 I’d now got to go back to someone and tell them that their machine is now a a write off.
Then he tells me that it’s ok 😯 . It’s a second hand one I got cheap last month, just dump it 😈
What a waste of time, effort and money, he was told loudly!Any more jobs for mates out there (I remember GBs story about his girlfriends Zanussi :rotl:)
TCRe: Doing jobs for friends…..a no no!!!!
cornwell40 wrote:
So after a few minutes investigation and head scratching I started looking at the new motor, and there it was!! Instead of fitting the new plug to the loom, the clown who replaced it had shaved off the locating guides on the old plug.That was almost standard practice for Hotpoint engineers, it works perfectly and never causes problems, unless you remove it then refit it without taking note of its original position. 😥
I’ll bet you check the next one. 😉
As they say,” a friend in need is a pain in the butt”.
Re: Doing jobs for friends…..a no no!!!!
This wasn’t for a friend but I gave free advice a few months ago to a woman who rang me on my mobile telephone, she said that her Hotpoint washer drier wasn’t filling up and could I give her an idea of likely cause and cost to repair, so I offered to call out for a nominal fee to give her an estimate, she declined the offer but continued to pick my brains (or lack of), at this point I told her that I thought that it was probably her solenoid valve and quoted her accordingly.
Three days later, I returned home from doing my calls and my wife says that she had booked me in for a recall to an irrate woman with a hotpoint washer drier that still was not working, Upon checking my diary I couldn’t believe it, so I rang the woman concerned and asked what the problem was, and she informed me that her husband had bought a 3 way solenoid valve(on my advise) and fitted it and it still was not working, and she firmly believed that I was now responsible to put it right at my own expense.
I told her that I was only to happy to call out but she would have to pay my labour charge, this she flatly refused to do, so making a concerted effort to twist the knife I offered her a full refund of any monies that she had paid to me, at this point she said that she was going to the citizens advice and put down the telephone.
I was onto the citizens advice quicker than she was because I was more than a bit concerned and explained the scenario to the advisor, and discovered that I had nothing to worry about.I never heard from her again but I will be more than careful next time I have anyone trying to pin me down over the telephone to make a diagnosis.
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