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True. hot and cold fill model or cold fill only? If you are attracted to the hot and cold fill check the way they do it! If they have followed the Hotpoint type of hot filling i.e. 60 degree programmes + fill hot only whereas a 40 / 50 degree programme fills hot and cold so much the better but if they have done it continental style not so good as that would probably mean only 1 programme trully fills hot 1 or 2x progs fill mixed and everything fills cold – no point in that unless you like 3.30 hour wash cycles starting from cold, even though you could still be washing in, catch frazed: “low low temperatures” which is in fact not good for the machine. My old Hotpoint for instance fills purely hot on a 60 degree programme but has the advantage of an economy button. In this case it still fills hot only but washes in what it gets ( skips the heating programme entirely ) say, at an incoming 50 / 55 degrees which is a damn useful programme since I spend all day under machines on grubby floors and 30 degree washing is next to bloody useless.
One point to mentioned is that Gorenje bought Asko who were then bought out by Hisense i.e. the ever invading Chinese.
Another point to be careful of as a general comment is if you went to Partmaster parts whilst doing a bit of buying research on future parts availability and say typed in a 3 year old ( to be fair ) Hisense or a Haier model xyz you might find that there are say, 170 parts listed for that model which sounds very promising but as you skip through to page 4 you`ll find those immortal words ” sorry this product is now unavailable” ( which could mean it is temporarily unavailable or could mean you are permanently stuffed ( who knows? ) from page 5 to page after page. So what looked promising at the outset is a spares nightmare storing itself up now never mind in x years ahead and with Chinese stuff that happens all the time ( `cause I sometimes work on the stuff ) right to repair law or no right to repair law which has more loop holes in it than an icing sugar sieve! You can get that happening on machines currently for sale on the shop floor that are current models and I kid ye not!! So if lashing out 500 + quid or so on an Ebac I would contact them for a chat, I never have, and see whether they are forth coming with all the details you deem fit to ask before you buy the thing and not after the event. Sales Dept have a very distorted view of reality that is for sure! Trust no one which is why I keep what I have or would buy fairly cheap and treat it a disposable if I could not fix it – luckily for me I can.andyjawa wrote:So if lashing out 500 + quid or so on an Ebac I would contact them for a chat, I never have, and see whether they are forth coming with all the details you deem fit to ask before you buy the thing and not after the event. Sales Dept have a very distorted view of reality that is for sure! Trust no one which is why I keep what I have or would buy fairly cheap and treat it a disposable if I could not fix it – luckily for me I can.
Good suggestion. Have just checked parts availability and there don’t seem to be any parts listed for EBac washing machines anywhere, although on the other had there are plenty of reasonably priced parts for their dehumidifiers available. Perhaps if their washing machines have always had a seven-year warranty there are none old enough yet. Will call them tomorrow to ask.
Spoken to Ebac:
- All parts will be available at sensible prices but none required yet as all machines are still under warranty, early machines had a ten-year warranty. Any parts required in the meantime they will supply direct, just ask.
- Check-out availablilty and cost of parts for their dehumidifiers to get an idea of how washing machine spares will be.
- Hot-fill is an ‘Intelligent’ hot fill which mixes both hot and cold to get the required temperature.
- Service manual – not willing to sell me one at the moment as all repairs at the moment carried out by their warranty Engineers.
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