[Madmac]

Re: The new Hotpoint MUD

If a car maker released a model with a sealed Engine,no bolted joints, all welded together and not possible to open, it would be all over the papers, Watchdog etc.

I know the purchase price is in a different ballpark but I think a customer has a right to expect a 500 quid consumer durable to have servicible parts and a ‘reasonable’ life expectancy. 😯

[Madmac]

Re: The new Hotpoint MUD

And its name will certainly be mud if it has a sealed drum and has to be skipped at three years like the rest of their range :rolls:

I’m all for them pushing higher cost machines like these though because customers are more likely to have a £500 machine repaired than a £200 one. In theory at least 8)

[Madmac]

Re: Hotpoint – Indesit Fridge Freezer Fires

There’s a heater to deal with condensation according to the manufacturers.

[Madmac]

Re: Hotpoint – Indesit Fridge Freezer Fires

One line in Hotpoint/Indesits’ response had me spitting out my coffee 😯 ‘We accept that this falure is not in keeping with our normal high product quality standards’ Say whaaaat?? :eeek:

Last job today was confirming bearing failure in yet another 3 year old sealed drum wonder of theirs :rolls:

****ing wonderful product quality standards 🙂

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: yellow pages

Lots of pensioners still use it and they can be worthwhile, loyal customers I find.

My rep has assured me the cost is actually dropping this year so will probably keep an ad running for now.

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: Zanussi ZWF12070W1 not starting prog.

Just to update the outcome of this one. BER’d an identical machine 2 days after looking at this one (bearing failure in sealed tub) was given the machine so took its PCB and a few other bits back to look at the first one again.
To cut a long story short I eventually found a tiny chip on the board with a leg blown off 😯 Traced the severe current overload back to one of the valve coils, it obviously had a prob in its winding.
Replaced valve and PCB and now its going like a good un. 🙂

Fault code was a total red herring it would seem. go figure 😕

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: Zanussi ZWF12070W1 not starting prog.

Thanks so much for that, I’ll go back for another attempt 😯
Strange thing is the heater did come on when I was running through the diagnostics (had a new one hooked up at the back of the machine and it nearly damaged the customers floor when it came on!!)

I hate Electrolux products more than indesit these days 😥

Thanks again,

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: Name That Burnt Out Wreck

Older Zan by the looks of the door, think the timers are prone to “resistive heating failures” 😯

[Madmac]

Re: Haus WM1050w 7 flashes.

Thanks for quick replies guys. Checked motor for continuity and leakage.

Might be worth checking motor relay on PCB and wiring between the two, the wiring seemed particularly unsupported I noticed.

I think these machines are pushed by that retailer of quality….Argos :rolls:

Thanks,

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: another candy gone bang

Bigger drums,faster spin speeds and minimal content of materials like expensive stainless steel can only end in tears.

I really wouldnt be suprised if a young child is eventually seriously injured or killed by one of the many machines self destructing on spin these days. 😯

[Madmac]

Re: Where’s everybody gone?

wilf wrote:Wheres everybody gone? Well I’m still here but only just. this site is now so slow its a real effort to use it. any chance it will ever run at the old speed?

wilf

Try updating your browser to the latest version wilf. Did that the other day and this site as well as others are much improved speed wise. 😉

[Madmac]

Re: A real case of SWAN’ upping!

Had a call to look at a Swan machine today, just one month old apparently, going into full speed spin on wash 😯

Customer bought it off some online outfit and they’re refusing to give a refund, asked her to ‘get someone local’ to look at it and bill them… according to her account anyway.

Funnily enough I declined.. :rolls:

[Madmac]

Re: Where’s everybody gone?

Martin wrote:Well exactly 2 months has passed is by since I started this thread and I can only speak as I find in that all the old regulars have either gone or more likely, I suspect, can’t get on with the new website. All very flash and with many new features, true, but all the same it’s lost its charm, ease of use, its all fashioned friendliness I reckon.

I class it now more of a functional site than a friendly meeting place. It’s all there if you have the patience and time to mess with it. The search facility is a major gripe for me I must confess. I’m sure it’s just down to me not pressing the right buttons (story of my life but hey. :D)

But the trade in general has now has long since peaked and lots of guys have been made redundant or retired, which goes some way toward explaining the demise. Coupled with the dramatic downturn in repair work across all products and brands. The Internet is the major contributor toward that fact. Providing easy solutions for folks solving their white goods problems without the need to phone their local repair shop.

It’s everyone for themselves these days and technology marches onward for better and for worse in equal proportion. UKW is just keeping keeping pace and going with the flow….que cera….!

I agree Martin, the new layout has ruined a smooth running, easy to use site IMO, I simply cant get on with it either 😥

Kinda feels like another nail in the coffin of the independent repairer to be honest, the buzzing site I joined just four years ago has changed beyond recognition and thats a real shame.

The format change is a big part of it but i think we all noticed a decline in trade activity last year too, if we’re all doing less work we’ve less to bitch and gossip about I imagine!

The threadworn argument about whats responsible has been gone over many, many times on these pages but theres no doubt in my mind that the main reason is the simple fact that fewer and fewer people even consider repairing white goods these
days.
Static or falling white goods prices versus ever increasing average incomes was only ever going to end where we are now 🙁

With all of us facing spiralling costs to keep a Business afloat while struggling with declining incomes this part of UKW is likely to get quiter still in the coming years.

I do miss the old days 😥

[Madmac]

Re: L.G WM 1285 FHD Constant pumping.

Cheers Phidom, not really a fan of QER but will return to this machine to remove my pump and collect callout, will spend a half hour looking at the board, hate to see an otherwise good machine dumped 🙁

Eddie.

[Madmac]

Re: More Consumer Woes

Linda of Airdrie…”I chose a semi decent machine because I wanted it to last” :rolls:

Someone should tell her £199 only buys you badge engineered chinese tat these days :rolls:

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