Siemens machine – bearings shot – recommendations please

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Just out of curiosity 😉 how many loads are you doing a week?

Don

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don wrote:Just out of curiosity 😉 how many loads are you doing a week?

Don

One. On occasion two.

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1totalshambles wrote:Re: Siemens machine – bearings shot – recommendations please

“Martin is quite correct…and I’ve heard anecdotally that a number of the WQ machines have had this problem. At two years old the manufacturer is unlikely to quibble….”

And the Bosch and the Neff sister branded machines too bearing failure is common. I`m almost retired now so I don`t repair a lot of machines but my point is even I come across this ever increasingly so that surely makes things worse. I have also come across heater failure because the pcb relay sticks alowing the heater to come on full blast for 5 secs on spin just before its internal fuse goes pop. This supposed up market stuff is no longer reliable and the sooner the public and the trade stops trying to kid themselves the better. I seriously think folks would be far better off with a simple 6kg 1200 spin Logik for less than 200 quid e.g L612WM13. Why? Parts are fairly cheap, thousands of them sold because they are so reasonable and then they`re expendable when they go wrong big time, never been to one where the bearings have failed at 2 years old, 4 yes but not 2! Why does the trade not like these machines? There`s no money to be made on repairs that`s why or rather who`s going to lash out a typical 60 quid callout plus parts on a 170 quid machine that`s 5 years old, answer: only a very few people.

Please read my post before this on above for a update.

Question – if it’s a known fault on the WQ range – did they ever get around to doing a product revision – and sorting it. Or are any replacements likely to still have the same flaw?

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