Hotpoint FFA60 – behaving oddly

[AntiHero]

Hi,
I have a Hotpoint FFA60, 6 years old and has worked without problems until this week.

Beginning of the week the fridge and freezer stopped working. About 2 days before I noticed that the fridge was running ever so slightly colder than normal (small pocket of ice on the drain run, and under salad drawer), so turned it down a fraction, on the dial from No 3 to about 2 2/3rds.
The next evening, the FF stopped working altogether, no lights, internally, or externally. I changed the fuse, and it powered back on and seemed to be working fine.
This lasted less than 24 hours and again today, I returned to a FF that has no power. I changed the fuse again, and checked the socket (have just had a kitchen rewire). No luck with the new fuse and the socket was fine.
I tried 3 more fuses incase of a duff one.
None seemed to work, so I left it plugged in, seemingly dead and came here to search the forums to advice on new FF.

Have just been back to the FF (5 hours from last fuse change) and now all the lights are on and it’s working, the motor (or something) is going and it’s on fast freeze and recognising that the temp in the freezer is too high.

Does anyone from my descriptions (let me know if need more info) know what could be causing this behaviour and what could be checked (I have an electrical engineer in the family)?

I don’t have enough money to call an engineer out to potentially replace a part, only for another part to conk out a few months down the line with it being an old ish machine. Hence utilising family member first.
I understand 6 yrs for a Hotpoint to be good innings.

I think I’ll go for having family member try to fix it if electrical, otherwise buy a new FF.

Thanks for any time you spend on responding, have been a reader of these forums for a good few years and have made some sound purchases and alterations to the way I use/run the washing machine particularly thanks to the information here.
So thanks for that and any time/thoughts on this query.

Anti

[spimps]

Re: Hotpoint FFA60 – behaving oddly

Could be fault around the pcb/module area or a poor connection/short circuit.
Power off first !

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