Whirlpool Washing Machine WWDC 6400/1 Flood – Please help!

[BeccaH86]

My Whirlpool WWDC 6400/1 flooded at the weekend – thankfully I was in the kitchen at the time and able to turn off the water valve quite quickly, but it was literally pouring out of the soap drawer and I still ended up with a large amount of water on the floor.

I had changed the washing programme halfway through the cycle, after realising I’d put it on the wrong one. The washing machine seemed to fill up again after I did this, and I’m guessing it just reached full capacity and then overflowed.

I’d have thought the machine would have some kind of safety mechanism to prevent this from happening. Does anyone know what the fault might be please? Or was it just my fault for changing the programme halfway through?! It seems to be running fine now on a standard wash without me faffing around mid cycle but I am worried about leaving it in future in case it happens again.

Any thoughts much appreciated. Thanks for your help! 🙂

[1totalshambles]

Re: Whirlpool Washing Machine WWDC 6400/1 Flood – Please hel

Well since this machine is behaving itself now it is going to be pure guess work based on just what we know rather than the sequence of how.
Did you reset, as in press the rest / cancel button then change to what you really wanted i.e. started afresh or just turned the machine to the new programme, if you did the latter it would not have cancelled the original programme unless you turned the selctor knob to off then turned to your new programme with water still in the machine….surprised it flooded either which way though, as no-doubt you were!
Things in general that can cause a machine, not necessarily your make or model, to mess-up like this, try not to get too overly worried!
1) the air trap is blocked up fairly common or there is a pin prick hole in the thin rubber hose to the pressure switch ( latter pretty rare). doubtful the actual pressure switch is at fault itself. check wires to it.
2) the inlet valve failed to cut off because its plunger got jammed. Pretty rare but possible I suppose.
3) programmer relay / pcb got totally but only temporarily confused. Impossible to verify, would be a total expensive guess at this stage and very rare. Do not tat about with it you will prove nothing.
4) soap box breather blocked up causing a part tank vacuum – as machine fills up the displaced air cannot go anywhere to release the pressure within the tank. Water then pours out of the soap dispenser draw. The actual water level in the machine however is not NORMALLY filled up above the top of the door when this happens and it is not that common unless the machine is ancient which yours isn`t.
5) AS A GENERAL NOTE. This is what happens when you trust a machine. Distrust all machines as much as a politician. Never ever put any machine on and not be around i.e. pushed off shopping / gone to work / gone to bed. You got lucky you were in hundreds of folks nationally never are!
6) loads of other wierd and wacky stuff it could be.
7)What you would have to do to prove this is to replicate the fault exactly how it failed the first time if you can remember what you did in the panic. Even then it might not screw-up! e.g. does the machine fill up with water, and how high, on wash programme X. If the water gets up to half the height of the door glass it is at fault: if you turn the machine`s plug off at the mains and the machine carries on filling it`ll be your water valve at fault. If it does shut the valve off immediatly it`ll be something to do with either a blockage in the air trap / pin split pressure swt hose, pressure swt itself or wires leading to it. Should also check the breather at the soap box to tank hose too. Any large amounts of gumming soap powder in the soap box underneath the soap draw check there too and obviously the hole where the water goes down which is much more likely to blockup there.
Can`t think of anything else but it is more likely to be something silly than major.

[1totalshambles]

Re: Whirlpool Washing Machine WWDC 6400/1 Flood – Please hel

EDIT. “If it does shut the valve off immediatly it`ll be something to do with either a blockage in the air trap / pin split pressure swt hose, pressure swt itself or wires leading to it.”

Should read: but if it DOES NOT cut off the water as the machine is filling up with the power switched on then it`ll be a blockage in the air trap…..etc….

My sincere apologies for this error..

[BeccaH86]

Re: Whirlpool Washing Machine WWDC 6400/1 Flood – Please hel

Thank you for all the advice – really appreciate it! I often put my washing machine on then go out somewhere – not anymore!!

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