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Re: Hotpoint D/W FDW 60T
Thanks Jim
This is not the problem, I am talking about a door not sealing up the sides of the door, ie the seal not touching the door. The top of the door is ok, but as you look down the sides of the door the gap get gradually greater. There is water leaking past the seal. IMO the feathered edge of the seal does not make contact with the door. I am reluctant to change the seal unless there is an improved version. Noise can be heard past the seal when washing, pushing the door eliminates this.
IMO this appliance is designed and manufactured poorly, I am just trying to find out if this is a ongoing problem before taking further action. 😥 I am tempted to send the customer to H/P and let them try to explain why the design is poor. 😳
I am sure that this is not a one off and other engineers have come accross the same problem
Re: Happy memories eh Jim? 😀
gegsy wrote:Thats no way to talk about Martin and Jim 😆
GregSteady now 😆
Re: What chance Sean or Gegsy
gegsy wrote:Your one sick puppy Malt 😆
Why go to the grave miserable? 😉
Re: Happy memories eh Jim? 😀
Them bu*gers used to go off with a hell of a bang, soiled undies if I remember 😆
Re: diplomat adp8221
I presume this is a model with a timer knob? if it has hold the knob over to one side and see if anything kicks in, if it does the timer will be faulty with bad contacts
MalRe: Dippy ADP8332
Penguin45 wrote:It had the cable attached with a pair of female receptacle terminals – the new one had the cable disappearing up its bottom 😯 .
Chris.Nurse, nurse,nurse 😆
Re: Dippy ADP8332
Chris
I had a similar problem on one of these NTC’s it turned out to be water in the NTC, fitted new one, problem sorted. Did you manage to get it wet when fitting the pump? easily done. 😉
Re: Bespoke kitchen ding dong!
Built in D/W in my village. When I get there I discover that that the DW won’t lift high enough to get over the new tiled floor even when raising the legs. The lady of the house informes me that her husband had laid the floor and it should be alright as he does this for a living 😆 Ok I said can you get him to get the DW out and I will call back tomorrow.
Next day I called back to find the DW was standing out from the units, on investigating I find the plonker had cut the legs off to get it out. Then I noticed the work surface above the DW was damaged to which she “shrugged” her shoulders.
I completed the repair, fitted longer hoses to it as well and suggested to her that “hubby” will have to refit it, no problems she said he is going to fit it onto blocks of wood so it will come out again.Several months later I called to see a friend of mine who lives two doors from the floor tiler. My friend says to watch out, the plonker is telling everyone in the street that I had damaged his kitchen and I was a lazy b*****d and usless for not being able to get the DW out.
As they say “dammed if you do dammed if you don,t”
I feel sorry for his wife, I have known her for years and she is OK unfortunatly for her she will now have to find someone else to do any repairs cos I ain’tRe: whirlpool toploader
Are you definite that the drive coupling is ok? the “flats” on the plastic sometimes get “rounded”
If it is the clutch then they are available and are not to hard to fit if you can get the cabinet off and have enough room to work that is 😉
Re: How easy we engineers have it now!
Martin wrote:
Time and tide wait for no man and if it takes 2 hours to fix the problem, then 2 hours it is. You win some and you lose some. For the most part guarantee work is a doddle, 5 minutes to figure it, 10 minutes to fix it. 10 jobs a day, home by 3pm at the latest. That is a day in the life of an employed whitegoods ‘engineer’ in essence. (That 2 hour job means its home by 5 pm though 🙁 )
Cripes Martin, all of my work is chargable, 5+10 minutes in and out of the house, in this area I would be linched if I presented a 40+ bill for 15 mins I wouldn’t have time to dunk a second rich tea 😆
Re: How easy we engineers have it now!
kwatt wrote:
To be honest one of the biggest changes that I see is that the customers have changed as the machines are less well respected and, it seems, so are we. In essence I think that we are often regarded and treated as a commodity, just like the machine.
K.
I can’t say I agree with this totaly, maybe the younger generation have little respect for us, but in general most customers are so pleased with the service we give.
What gets my goat is people asking me to do the odd plumbing job when I arrive to fix an appliance, toilet leaking, overflow in loft leaking etc. When I explain to them that they need a plumber to do those jobs I get the answer ” oh are you not a plumber?” 👿 no disrespect to plumbers but give me strength 😥
