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Re: Badly packed spares

Had to put up with a round of jeffing from the customer who wouldn’t listen to our side at all. He’s decided to start again with someone else.
Thanks to our suppliers(s) another lost customer!!

Tony C

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Re: Smeg range ~ Commutators

Then there’s Candy calling a plinth / kickstrip a SOCKLE. 😯
Probably someone heard that a sockle get stuck in there if your’e not careful!!

Tony C

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Re: Amusing Ancedotes & Other Tales

Could be in the old “free estimates” category, but here goes.

Call booked in last week to a Hoover vented drier no heat.
As I got there she says the phrase that grates ” I only want to know if its worth repairing”

Up here its a no call out charge area, but deffo charging for estimates and they are told on the phone if theres any doubt.

So I carried on knowing that it’s a £15 local estimate.
Twenty minutes later she’s informed that the stat has gone and the price. Declined repair so she is charged £15.
Then I get the “WHY?”
She gets out Yellow pages and says” look it says free estimates” and points to the ad. I say “no it says no call out charges” and do the same.
Her husband duly pays up (not a peep from him…..who’s wearing the pants springs to mind)
So I called back to the office to warn of the impending chav on the warpath.
Ten minutes later I get a call back. Yes, they rang accused us of false advertising 🙄 and telling us that we should advertise the fact that we don’t do free estimates. To which she was told ” But we dont do toast or sell jam either, should we put that in!” :rotfl:

Tony C

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Re: Top pseudonym!

Personally I think Rudolph Hucker is tops. Took me six months to get that one. 😳 I thought we had a German contingent.

Tony C 😳 😳

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Re: Hoover 3761 Automatic

Had a good few of these modules failed recently. Usually relay or dry joint related.

Tony C

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Re: ARISTON LV68 DISHWASHER

Ouch!!! 👿 wot a git to get to.

Found the fault to be a connection off the thermistor. 40 minutes to strip down the thing and get to the part even though I saw it after about ten.

Wot a nasty little builder Mr Merlotpoint is. 👿

Tony c

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Re: PROLINE FE600W

Thanks Dave,

Thought as much 😥

Tony c

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Re: AEG Lavamat 86720-W clicking

Thanks Martin.
One clickless AEG, one happy customer and one engineer with a 0.05mm thicker wallet 😉

Tony C

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Re: smeg dwi64

QER helped me out with one of these the other week. Same fault . Turned out to be the heater relay O.C. Then again, no use if its not a chargeable.
Tony C

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Re: Hotpoint Refrigeration T’Stats

Seamy,

I had the same problem about a year ago. On all occasions I changed the stat like for like and the fault didn’t re-occur. Bad batch as Dave suggested!!
Tony C

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Re: Blomberg 1501 brushes

Thanks for that DP, sorry for the late reply. I might be back to you on that motor.

Tony C.

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Re: Hotpoint wm73 no fill

😳
That should read “stunned expression”
Tony C

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Re: Hotpoint wm73 no fill

I’ve got a few old tubs that I use for recons. A bit of time wasted but
its a fault I don’t think I’ll ever see again and the customer is ok with it.
She even noticed my sunned expression and made me another brew!!!!

Tony C

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Re: Hotpoint wm73 no fill

Bl***y Hell 👿 👿 👿
This one has been sent to haunt me.
Fitted the heater a week ago all fine!!
Get a recall today , machine noisy. Huh?
Fitted bearings and spider last week and now the ali bearing collar is loose inside the foam outer.
In fifteen years and hundreds, of Hotpoint calls I’ve never seen this one before 👿
AND a pulley spoke busted getting the nut off………….

🙁 Tony C 🙁

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Re: Blomberg 1501 brushes

Thanks for that Dave, I’ll go down that route.

Tony C.

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