I bit the bullet a arranged a call out.
Turns out that when I replaced the pcb in the facia plate ( fiddly thing it is requiring a bit of patience) I didn’t plug the two terminal blocks into the edge of the pcb, they were in the right place but 90° out, so not making contact:mad::mad:. But the dirty buttons cured the original problem. Will try to keep on top of the cleaning of those in future in-situ so I don’t need to disturb the pcb again.
These repair people don’t like you trying to do it yourself, yet it’s the only way you learn.
We were envisioning having to buy a new washing machine whose longevity is even less being chink scrap, instead of Eytie.
All’s well that ends well, well almost, just have to sort out the bubble in the lino that was under one of the feet.