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Re: Help! Need motor for Tecnik TKD-701 dishwasher

Many thanks to all of you for helping. It’s much appreciated.

Unfortunately, I think I may have spent a lot of money I didn’t need to spend 🙁 I was in a real rush to try to solve the problem because I’m moving house (I hope) next Friday and didn’t want to leave a broken machine. The repairman didn’t initially ring back as promised re: a new motor, but when I rang him back he told me he’d have to wait until next Tuesday to hear from his spares source re: whether he could get one or not, and that even if there was a new motor available he might not be able to get it in time to install pre my move.

I therefore looked online for a used semi-integrated machine, and (miraculously!) managed to find one just 10 minutes from where I live via a website called PreLoved. I paid £140 for it, and was told it had never been used as it hadn’t fitted into the owner’s kitchen. As it was Saturday I didn’t try to ring the repair man but spoke to my neighbour, who is very helpful and very handy. He installed it for me last night, and it’s working.

Significantly, he told me that there was no problem in taking the old one out–I watched him do it, and all he did was lift and pull–and said that the repair man had not undone the screws where the old machine was fixed to the cupboard 🙁 It seems he simply hadn’t wanted the job, but for some reason he didn’t just tell me that. Now from what you all say it sounds as though there might have been a quick and cheap fix. I’m pretty disgusted with the repair man. I found him through Which Local and used him because 5 people said how good he was.

Well the good news is that I now have a working DW to leave behind, which is a great relief. The bad news is that I might not have had to spend £140, which I could well do with for the expenses of moving. On the other hand, my neighbour was a star and wouldn’t take any money for helping, and so it could have been a lot worse. Had I not found the used machine I’d have had to buy a new one, and I wouldn’t have thought of asking my neighbour if he could install it.

Thanks again to all of you for your help. I’m not an idiot in every aspect of life (honest!), but it’s easy for people to take advantage of me in relation to this sort of thing because I’m one of those women who just doesn’t know anything about domestic applicances, and since I don’t proceed on the basis that people are lying to me it didn’t occur to me to check whether the bloke had actually unscrewed the machine. I wish my repair man had been helpful and straightforward like you.

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Re: Help! Need motor for Tecnik TKD-701 dishwasher

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for helping.

When I turn it on it will drain, but it won’t run a cycle. There’s a low humming sound, and the bloke said the motor wasn’t running. He thought there might be a bit of food caught in it, but when he managed to get to it with his hand he said he could turn something (I’m sorry to be so clueless), and that told him it wasn’t jammed.

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