[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

Hi kwatt,

Saying that you’re -not legally allowed- to give the information changes the situation somewhat!!! I was not aware of that and this thread makes much more sense in light of that information, though it’s very strange to hear. What laws prevent you from giving such details when the information to do anything you like to a car is freely available? And much more likely to kill you if you do it wrong I would say!

Cheers for the heads-up. I’ll do some more experiments to isolate the cause then probably use the Repairs@ section (very handy) here to find an engineer if needed.

Thanks,

Chandy

[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

I was casting no aspersions on the advice given here, I was implying I was being misdirected by the fault code.

I’ve never seen the inside of a machine before, and can find no good diagrams, so all I can do is to check for the obvious and try and deduce what things are from looking at them. I have no problem opening and checking things, especially on what seems quite a simple device. I have to say that, just because I don’t know what I am looking at and have to try and make deductions, does not make me an incompetent. It simply means I do not have the information to hand, hence why I asked the questions here.

Clearly I have misinterpreted this forum as a help resource when it is more accurately a sales tool for service engineers?

Chandy

[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

Woah woah woah, this is all going a bit weird now.

Okay. On a whim I decided to try a short cycle (30 mins). This appears to be three repititions of fill, forward and back for five minutes, drain then spin. It pretty much worked perfectly! I basically sat and watched the entire time and tried to nurse it though if and when needed. I held it down a little on the spins because there seemed to be a lot of movement of the drum but it span through fine each time. The only blemish was that, at 13 mins. left, it added another two minutes, then sat for two minutes at the end doing nothing. Right now I’m attributing that to my having accidentally bumped it to another programme for a few seconds part-way through.

This is all with the same load as when the F-03 error came up. There was one item in the load that was at least twice as heavy as the rest (big jeans) and the load was maybe a little under what I would usually wash. I can see how that could potentially make it impossible to get the balance right for a spin, though Indesit and consensus in here both point to an electrical/thermistor issue.

When I took the top off I played around a little with what I thought (wrongly it seems) would be the thermistor (am I right in thinking now that the temperature is measured in the drum itself?). I removed and re-attached a couple of connections and generally had a poke around to see if anything was loose. I also twanged a couple of times at an odd-looking thick, black wire that sits between the drum and the wall of the appliance. The wire seemed to be sprung and was padded. I guessed it to be some sort of balance-detector? Is there a proper diagram around here of what all these bits actually are/do? 🙂

Other that my accidentally fixing it by poking about my other theory is that the machine is able to get hot enough water from the hot water inlet just now and so doesn’t need to heat its own, which it may have had to yesterday when the fault occurred. Is this a plausible scenario? Could it ‘ignore’ a faulty heating element if it knew it could get 30C water from the inlet?

Anyway, I have another 30-minute wash on right now with a bigger load so I’ll see how that behaves. Definitely some experiments to be done before calling out someone who actually knows what they’re doing. 🙂

Thanks for the help.

Chandy

[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

I think I’m being misdirected here. I put the machine on a short-spin only. The programme came up as two minutes duration and the machine started, but never moved. It -sounded- like it was though! The wet rrrrsh-rrrrsh-rrrrsh-rrrrsh noise is there but the drum doesn’t move. I can rotate the drum fine using he hub on the back and the belt looks good.

I suppose the open thermisotor circuit could be casuing a loss of power to the motor?

Think I’ll go unplug it again!

Chandy

[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

Hi Dave,

Okay, the top is off (and plug out) and everything looks fairly shiny, new and in good order. I’m guessing the thermistor is the bit positioned just behind the inlet for the hot water? If so, this is the only item that seems loose? I can slightly rotate and move what seems to be a partially copper-clad plastic housing around on the inside-side of that pipe. There are wires connecting into it which seem solid enough though the whole unit moves if I wobble the wires.

What should I be looking for from here?

Chandy

[Chandy]

Re: Indesit evolution 1000 (we10) F-03 fault

I could have sworn I did that already and didn’t find much of a consensus but looking again…
Okay, I can check for and fix a broken wire if that’s all it is. Got a multimeter too. Is there a guide available to where to find the thermistor for someone who’s never seen the inside of a washing machine? Right now I don’t even know how to get the top off!

Chandy

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