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Oli,
The machine will have been circulating foam instead of water, which will almost certainly have caused some sort of heater safety thermostat to cut out. Your machine will be stuck at the heat part of the cycle; the programme will not continue until temperature is reached, which it isn’t going to do!Get out as much foam as you can and try resetting to the rinse and hold programme, use it to flush out the machine.
Some safety stats are resettable, some are one shot devices.
Unless you are very confident in your abilities it’s engineer time. Whatever you decide to do, pull the plug first.
Regards,
Penguin45.Jason,
Did a bit more digging – try http://www.appliance.asn.au – seems to be an appliance trade organisation in Oz, so you might get some more informed advice through them than we can offer.Good Luck,
Regards,
Penguin45.BB,
Do you have wash action on the drum and if you listen at the programme knob can you hear ticking?If neither of these is happening (or you have constant motor action in one direction ONLY), you have a programmer fault and it’s engineer time.
Regards,
Penguin45.Jones of Oakwood, shops at Oakwood and Moortown ring road. It’s a reputable family business been trading for years.
Regards,
Penguin45.It’s an Aussie top loader Martin. There was another one last week. The only vaguely useful bit of info I could find was http://www.hoover.co.au
Hoover Australia is part of E/lux, which struck me as rather ironic!
Regards,
Penguin45.I think we could even put it a little more succinctly than that –
UKW – 18 months – 1,500,000 hits.
Resources – virtually nil
Advertising budget – Definitely nil
Impact on Trade members – astounding
Impact on Public – well, they keep coming….
Future – INFLUENCEAnd Influence equals WORK. And that is our livelyhood.
The case rests M’lud.
Chris.
Good post RS. The beauty of UKW is you get to share your mistakes with the whole country!
Welcome on board.
Chris.
DC can probably help you out with this. However it is essential that you find the model number and preferably the serial number of the appliance. Check around the edge of the door or around the cavity and let us know.
Regards,
Penguin45.If it literally isn’t doing anything, most likely culprit is timer advance motor failure.
Penguin45.
Greetings, oh pink spotty one. There was a duplicate of this thread running back in July, where the answer was found.
Seemingly the digiboard is looking for a component which is not actually fitted to your appliance! The only solution is to “reset” the computer, which is a bit of a specialised job.
Best bet is probably to get some professional help. Check in the Directories for a UKW engineer in your area or pop your postcode up here and someone will pick up on it.
Regards,
Penguin45.Difficult to know where to go with this. IPX 4 is something we see on the back of Indesits quite regularly, however the rest of the label appears to be in German – Schleuderdhzahl is “spin speed”. So we appear to be dealing with a low specification machine, which means it should be simple – no computers.
The best thing to do might be to give an outline of the problems you are having and see if a bit of logic can solve it for you.
Regards,
Penguin45.So, the logical step would have to be recognised field trainers who can grade newbies work – how can that be done? If we finish up as regulated as CORGI, somewhere down the line they’ve got to recognise the senior hands and maybe say “They’re qualified”.
With the scale of the industry today, there would be no possible way we could all be hauled in for testing or training – business would stop!
Affiliation with local tech colleges might be a good start – if we could get appliance repairs recognised as a valid career or trade in the first place!
I think this what the Americans call a “buddy system”. Knowing our luck (and our government) we could no doubt finish up with six months practical experience and then a bloody expensive six month training course.
See what happens I suppose.
Chris.
Re: DASA
This is a very curious thread. When I went on my own (nearly 13 years ago), I was invited to attend the local “chapter’s” meetings and meet the rest of the “official” independent repairers. After a few months, I was, as previously mentioned, wondering “What’s in it for me?”. It seemed to be a bit of a club, but was so introspective as to how we should be doing the job, and the right way of doing it, and how to fill in the paperwork. What it DIDN’T do was create any sort of dynamic as to how to profile the organisation in public.
Anyway, I opted for Fair Trades for a few years. After a (must say) VERY thorough vetting, I was awarded my set of scales….. High profile for a few years, lots of “Presentations” in the local rags but it seemed to lose momentum after while.
Now, it’s all referall work or repeat business, I try to be honest and (hopefully) my customers trust me.
Then came UKW. Sure, it’s a site designed for us in all aspects, but has the thing that DASA lacks – an altruistic side which is basically the public side of this site. After thinking about it for a while, it’s perfectly obvious that the Public is not daft and wants and appreciates the free input they get from us. The latest batch of business cards have the UKW logo and web address on the back – customers have all the tools in their hands when I leave.
I suppose the key point to the current discussion is that WHY isn’t this “ukdasawhitegoods.com” ? Opportunity missed, never to be recovered. One of my boys has pointed out that 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs became extinct because they couldn’t adapt. For myself, 13 years has gone by and nothing seems to have changed at DASA apart for becoming even more headless! Extinct without radical surgery soon? All too possible.
I suppose the way things are going, sooner or later someone will come on here and complain that they’re not happy that QWR did a job to their satisfaction. Even if they’re right or wrong, if you guys came back and said “Sort it out”, I’d accept it from you guys because it would be a fair and unbiased opinion; rather than because I failed to tick box 17 in the flugelhorn wranglers checksheet!
Regards,
Chris,
Penguin45.First thing required for exact diagnosis is the model number Ryck. Should be around the edge of the door.
General pointers can be pump jammed by foreign body, or start/run capacitor failure.
If overflow circuit was activated the machine would NOT fill!
Do not do anything without unplugging the machine first!
Regards,
Penguin45.
