Hotpoint HFC 2B19uk fault

[creon]

I’ve got the Hotpoint HFC 2B19uk freestanding dishwasher for 4 years now and recently it’s stopped mid cycle with me having to open the door and shut it for it to start again to complete its wash cycle.

Now it won’t do a cycle at all, it’ll start to fill and then stop and drain with the programme light and start button flashing along with 3 beeps.

When it starts to fill it’s noisier than usual almost like it’s bubbling, it never gets to heat the water.

Calling on the white goods gods to save this dishwasher from the tip and stop me from buying more crap, I’ve checked the hoses they’re fine, there’s been no water in the flood detection thing underneath. Everything looks ok when I removed the side panel.

[andyjawa]

Possible: With a non flooded under base. The bubbling sounds is the heater coming on without much or any water in the machine OR the motor is running at 1/5th speed and still points to a duff wash motor which is common on Hotpoint and Indesits (they have several incarnations of this magnetic rotored Askol type motors over the years where the magnet usually spilts though they can fail for other reasons such as jamming due to lime and rubbish build ups since the rotor, magnet et al runs in water – these machines also do not like hard water so do not like working based soley on all in one tablets, so without salt, if hard water applies to you). When I did do dishwasher repairs I had your described fault problem many times. Just check the filter and under the filter before jumping to wrong conclusions as a blockage can cause the same symptoms although it is seldom as easy as that.
To be very frank all this stuff has a rubbish rating! Trouble is everything else has too or it`s just down to just pure luck or the lack of due to using cheap parts (though they are, of course, expensive to buy for what they are!) and very often with a poor design. Buying even a Bosch may not help you just in case you think it will as they have problems (actually quite a few of them) with the heaters come wash motors as one expensive unit failing = they have a C.R.A.P rating too but that is IMO.
Anyway, if diagnosed correctly, your machine should be under a ten year free parts warranty if you registered the purchase because that wash motor for your machine is listed on Hotpoints web site at £154 (a total rip off, at a close guess Hotpoint pay 10 quid a motor) part number C00731573 based on your model information based on a randomly choosen version industrial code number you did not quote, so check this yourself please. I think Hotpoint charge 130 quid labour so in your case it is cheaper than DIY if that`s any consolation.
I have very little faith in any brand of dishwasher and even less, as general info, with especially heatpump tumble dryers (usually nothing but trouble) and no faith in manufacturers..
Best of luck.

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