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Earlier this week a hole was left under my worktop as my ISE10 W256 washing machine was carted off to be scrapped. Its very sad as I’d always counted on at least 7 or 8 years of good service.The only consolation was that we had worked the machine hard and I probably got a good 4 thousand cycles out of it give or take. To be fair it probably would have soldiered on for a few months more, but the bearing was getting unbearably noisy. We even had a repair company come and look as I felt it would be one of those repairs best left to an experienced tech, but alas they could not source the parts and declared it beyond economical repair (Pity I didn’t get that nugget of info out of them before parting with the call out charge).
The old girl wasn’t perfect, it rusted around the soap panel, it was awkward to clean inside the soap box ,the rear spring had to be bent to stop it catching on the rear transit bolt lug, and of course I really expected that bearing to at least hit the 5 year mark. But, it made up for things with a door that wasn’t covered by hideous perspex, a fantastic sealing mechanism (I did have to change the seal once, but that was easy), a beautifully simple control panel, and above all a perfect clean and rinse in under 90 minutes. Not once did we ever witness hideous powder marks on our wash. Best of all, and I sound sad for saying this, it was entertaining to see the drum bouncing around during the wash cycle, especially as it spun up. Use one of these machines and you marvel at the forces in play, and how the machine has to tame them.
Do I regret buying it?…No. If I break down the purchase cost over 5 years it worked out to approx £15 / Month. I spend more than that on TV entertainment packages. I can live without the TV, but to live without a washing machine – no way. Its as important an appliance in our home as our gas boiler. As a society we really do under-estimate the hard work these machines perform. until they go wrong that is!
Would I buy essentially the same machine if Gorenje introduced the Asko in to the UK market? Maybe, Id be tempted. I would however need assurances over the corosion issue and the bearing life.
Hopefully the remaining ISE 10s out there will keep chugging away, but for owners looking to replace their machine with another 8KG loader here is a spot of advice. Take a tape measure to the inner drum dimensions, especially from the drum rim to the rear of the drum and then get yourself down to John Lewis or wherever and do the same again on the machine you’re eyeing up. I found that while the few I measured share the same diameter, the depth of other machines could be a good couple of inches shorter. You notice the difference straight away. The Miele 8KG were one of the exceptions sharing very similar drum. dimensions to the ISE.
My new machine is OK, but boring, which is OK I guess…Its just a washing machine after all!
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