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Re: AEG dishwasher only heating a little
Thanks Dave. The mere suggestion I gut it seems to have woken it up again. It was on 65C cycle today and was most definitely hot. Fingers crossed it stays that way!
Re: AEG dishwasher only heating a little
Thanks – is this easy to find? I’m pretty handy but not too familiar with appliances. Also would it not give an error of some sort if it was trying to heat but didn’t get to temp?
Re: AEG leaking from matrix
Nope nothing out of there.
I have however fixed it. The muck where the blue arrow is on the photo was the problem. Where there is alittle sluggy stuff on other bits it doesn’t seem to be interfering, but the bit where the blue arrow is was causing a partial blockage, so on filling, the water couldn’t get to the fat black pipe quick enough. Once I figured that out and cleaned it out, it doesn’t leak and it doesn’t overflow the sides of the hoopper-shaped thing in the middle. Cleaning was a right laugh as it’s past a couple of narrow 90 degree bends, but the bobbly red cable tie on the back of the machine that tidies the hoses turned out to be the best tool for the job.
Thanks for the replies anyway, why is the matrix such a complicated beast?!
Re: AEG leaking from matrix
Me again, this is the softener:
http://www.diy-spares.com/cgi-bin/produ … ath=108277
It doesn’t have a pipe off the bottom, it only connects through the matrix.Re: AEG leaking from matrix
Thanks for the reply. To be honest, I’m not sure, I know where the softener and salt bottle combo are, but not where the pipe is. I took a photo of the matrix:
http://www.johnnyrod.co.uk/dw.jpg
When it starts to fill, water goes down the right-hand of the four pipes and up the left-hand one, there doesn’t seem to be any flow in the middle two (maybe these are for a different part of the cycle, I can’t figure out this thing). It then goes up (red arrows), swirls about a bit in the bit that looks like a hopper, and weirs over both sides. At this point it starts dribbling from the slots on the back (green box).It does flow down past the water marks, but where the blue arrow is there is no flow. I don’t know if there should be, some of the dividers seem to be more like baffles rather than making closed channels. Once it’s filled it washes fine, it just leaks on filling. I’ve an inkling I haven’t answered your question though. I’m also not sure, if this needs cleaning, how to do it, most of the inside seems to be inaccessible.
Many thanks, JohnRe: AEG leaking from matrix
I’ve run a cleaning bottle through it at 70C, and before that I rodded the fat black hose that comes off the bottom of the matrix and disappears underneath, it all looks pretty clean. I’m pretty handy with a spanner but am at a loss now as to what to do, I would really appreciate some advice from someone. Thanks.
