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Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
I did, of course have a shop until earlier this month and had happily turned away vac repairs for the last 10 years. Any engineers good enough to repair one should have been out doing proper white goods.
Re: Indesit W103 Problem (concrete block broken off)
Do Indesit really offer a 5 years parts warranty? Not certain about that one.
Re: Whirlpool Tumbledrier start switch problem
Its not magnetic or anything but it is linked witht the door lock. Last one I fitted came with a bundle wires and complex looking bi-(read non) lingual instructions. May be a job for an engineer. Part number though is:481227618248
try here for just the part: spares@ukwhitegoods.co.ukor here to find an engineer near you:try our repairs@ service: click here
If you look yourself, remember to unplug first.
good to hear from another Archers fan!
Re: Strings + Codes
But I never click those tiny url things as you never know where they are taking you, i prefer to see the real url as it will give some clues to where you are going.
Re: PCB Repairs
Only thing to watch out for when sending a PCB in for repair is that they often come back un repairable which means a wasted few days at the very least.
Re: WMA Drum 5 yr Guarantee
Penguin45 wrote:I don’t have the time to waste to find out that the sumps blocked, the belts off, the door seal’s got a hole in it, and oh yes, the bearings have gone……
My ad in Yellow Pages for years said “No Candys”. I am quite seriously considering changing it to “No Hotpoints under 5 years old”.
It’s junk. I know it, you know it and a lot of our customers now know it. I’d rather no risk my hard-earned reputation on this sort of rubbish.
Give it back to Hotpoint, not my problem.
Chris.
Just done a quick check over thast 4 weeks Hotpoint WMA’s
1 Pump failed
7 sump blocked
2 carbon brushes
1 susp peg out (Hotpoint engineer did bearing change in Feb this year!)
2 module blown due to chaffing wires, both repaired by patching.
err…. bearings? none!All of which were repaired at less than Hotpoints service charge at a decent profit for me too.
Oh and watch out for the Ariston A1436, despite Ari swing out dispenser, and EEprom module at rear, it has a WMA tub and door seal in it.
Re: AEG 40300 drain pump
prat (sic) centre/ wash vac list an equiv at under £20. PUM081 often even the gen comes as a normal round screw on askoll I think.
Re: WMA Drum 5 yr Guarantee
How does this work anyway. Do the “morally correct” ones tell every customer who phones up reporting a noisy WMA that they should call Hotpoint and get it done cheaper, hence loosing out on the coin in pump/bra wires/loose weights/dislodged susp pins/frayed belts/loose worktops or backs/whatever may also cause noises which he could sort out cheaper than Hotpoint anyway. OR conveys his morals while at the customers house thus charging them a moral charge for the estimate which when added to the Hotpoint rate would work out about the same anyway? Just wondered.
Re: Whio makes this built in washer please?
If its a washing machine intergrated from MFI then it is almost certainly a Merloni (servis) clone. Model number is usually behind the kick plate alongside the filter. Dont recognise that other number though. Try posting a photo to be sure.
Re: spares from UKW
I can see his point about returns, judging by the amount of customers who “know” their programmer has gone, regardless of the real problem.
Maybe if Tony were to attend the meeting and meet some of us we could come to some sort of arrangement with him.
They provide an excellent service, IMO.Re: Philco RWM1041
Think I have a scrappo one of these left if you are out of luck. was a great machine though, and like you sold many all of which are still out there and loved by their owners.
Re: WMA Drum 5 yr Guarantee
Of course, another realy good reason for passing over wma tubs to Hopoint is that we can do 2 maybe 3 ‘normal’ jobs at say £60 a piece in the time taken to complete one. Is that morals or just good bussiness practice?
I charge around £130 inc vat for those regardless what parts were fitted or how long it takes. Its hard work for 90 mins or so + the workshop time building up an exchange unit. OK the other guy’s price may have been slightly over the top, assuming he is vat registered he is getting £125 odd about the same as 2 carbon brush jobs on a WM.
Re: AEG cooker B4100-1-d Fan Running Continuously
Yep, that picture has to win the most useless part picture of the year!
Actualy, we are fitting loads of these right now, usual complaint being the oven cutting out completely when hot as the cooling fan is not being initialised. ID of this part is not helped by it not being shown on TDS or Pro corner and it being offically described as a “thermal cut out” which it is not. It first appears to be just a join of 4 wires but is infact a tiny heater strip wired in series with the oven fan element, the current for which heats up a bi-metal strip that initialises the cooling fan motor after a while. The object being that even when the oven is turned off, the cooling fan will continue to run until the bi-metal cools down and breaks to circuit. Simpl? yes, cheap? yes, reliable? NO.
