Hotpoint Aquarius WDF756 no spin or drain with clothes in.

[Greying Goose]

Hi
I have the Hotpoint Aquarius washer / dryer WDF756PUK. It’s been temperamental of late, currently it won’t spin or drain with clothes in the drum but will happily do both when empty. Does anyone have any ideas?

The fact it drains at all suggests to me there’s no blockage. I replaced the pump less than six months ago so that part isn’t that old, part was described as genuine from Ransom.

My wife has suggested it’s previously ran wash cycles when put on drying cycles but I’ve yet to experience this myself. Just mention mention in case it points to actual current issue.

Cheers

GG

[andyjawa]

Well I was going to say check the motor brushes but I checked for you and it seems your model has a brushless 3 phase motor fitted but if I was you i`d have a visual check just in case. If you do have a brushless motor: because your fault does seem to be very odd, so how I understand you it will not spin or pump out with clothes or does it actually pump out but will not spin TAKING into account wet clothes draining down and thus leaving water in the machine because it will not spin although it did actually drain. So if it you try the machine soley on a Spin programme only with wet clothes see if the machines screws up? If so I think it will be the lineear pressure switch messing about or maybe the main pcb, more likely to be the linear pressure switch ( p/swt ) playing about which is fairly well known because….. these things as you know control the water level BUT they also control the machines ability to spin plus what complicates things is they can sense there is no water in the machine and do not turn the pump on. The pressure switch is listed as a J00192066 which is Hotpoints parts website number NOT the true part number which should be c00289362 about 25 quid from Hotpoint or about 18 quid off ebay or an alternative one from qualtex part X reference quawmp11 (12 to 14 quid). Do NOT blow up into the new pressure switch as that will ruin its settings. You could also visually check the p/swts thin hose for any rubbed pin prick holes and remove this hose off the present p/swt and blow down the hose it into the machine to test for part blockages before you buy anything – don`t forgot to re attach this hose!!! If all else fails as your pump, as you say seems ok, then you might be looking a non consumer replacable pcb at horrendous great expense – these damn things are programmable only onsite by Hotpoint. Go try a new p/swt.

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