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Re: Help diagnosing Bosch dishwasher impeller jug fault

Impeller jug replaced, and the dishwasher is away and working 😀

I had a devil of a job getting the old jug off, as I expected – these things never go straightforward for me!! It just didn’t want to come off the white aquastop supply hose. Even with a hairdryer it just wouldn’t budge a millimetre. Eventually, twisting it to “break the seal” so to speak achieved results.

Thanks for your advice Martin!

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Re: Help diagnosing Bosch dishwasher impeller jug fault

Thankyou Martin! Will order a new impeller jug right away.

For removing the impeller jug, I can easily unclip the hose from the matrix/reservoir/thing-on-the-side-that-fills-with-water, then I assume if I unclip the plastic cover at the rear where the aquastop hose enters the machine (this thing:)

-and being careful of any wires that are still connected, I should be able to withdraw the hose with the impeller jug attached from the rear of the machine, enough to replace the jug?

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Cheers. I think I’ll probably leave it for a while, it’s not exactly going to be easy to get the motors out!

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Re: Dyson DC07 cut out in use: help diagnosing what’s failed

Thanks for your reply Oliver.

I think the motor has probably gone, then. The root cyclone unit was pretty gunked up, I’ve given it a good clean but the Dyson still won’t come back to life.

In the meantime, we’ve been given a DC05 cylinder unit. Now I’m pretty sure it won’t use the same motor, but am I right in thinking that the thermal cut-out device is the same? It certainly seems that the replacements you can buy are for the DC05 and DC07. What I was thinking was that I could take the thermal cut-out from the DC05’s motor, and fit it to the DC07’s motor. That way I’d know for certain whether I needed a new motor, or just a new cut-out.

I’m not in any hurry to do this though, after all we do now have a functional Dyson – I’d just like to get the upright DC07 going again at some point.

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Re: Adding brush control to a DC07 – possible?

Well, just to let you know, I did it successfully 🙂 I now have a Dyson I can use all over the house.

There’s a great exploded diagram of the two types of head assembly over at espares, hope they don’t mind if I link to it. The parts I ordered were:

Cleaner head assembly (1)
Brush housing assembly (6)
Clutch actuator outer (7)
Clutch Assembly (8 )
Clutch Cover (10)
Brushroll Assembly (12)
Soleplate Assembly (13)

I managed to get a combination of new and second hand parts, total cost was under £40.

Using the information at Dyson-online’s technical advice pages it was pretty straightforward to work out how to disassemble the old head and reassemble the new one.

I’m still not convinced that a DC04 head wouldn’t fit on a DC07 – I’m certain that many of the parts I received were actually DC04 parts, and they all fitted together fine. I’m loath to recommend anyone to go out an buy a DC04 head in case I’m wrong, but given that I could have bought a complete DC04 head for £10 or so (!) I do wish I’d given it a go myself – if it didn’t fit I could have just ordered a couple of new DC07 parts rather than the whole lot, and the total would still have been less than I paid in the end.

Can’t complain though – in all, it was a lot cheaper than a new vacuum cleaner!

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Cheers!

I’ve found some extremely useful information on Dyson maintenance over at http://www.dyson-online.com – I’m pretty confident I can handle the disassembly and reassembly now (provided I don’t lose the screws 😉 )

I’ll report back when I’ve had a go – I can’t be the first to realise I need brush control after all, and £40 for the parts is pretty reasonable compared with the cost of replacing one Dyson with a new one!

I guess the only drawback would be that if I make an obvious hash of it my warranty will be void.

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Well I’ve found someone who says he can supply a complete head assembly, so I guess it depends on my ability to disassemble and reassemble that part of my Dyson without losing a myriad of tiny parts under the sofa 🙂

I think I’ll have a go at taking off all the user-servicable parts first, to give me an idea of the complexity of the task. Might as well take the opportunity to clean the filters!

Any advice on disassembling a Dyson head? (Beyond unplugging it first obviously!) If it looks too frightening to proceed further than removing the user-servicable parts, I guess I can always take it to a repairs shop to get it done.

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Re: John Lewis/Bosch(?) machines any good?

Ahhh right. My Mum’s had some bad experiences with Zanussi, so I think I’ll steer clear of the John Lewis brand ones.

The Bosch one you linked to looks decent; shame the guarantee’s only 2 years, but if it comes recommended that’s good enough for me.

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Pistol wrote:Well, it didn’t fast spin even when empty 🙁

For the first part of the final (supposedly fast) cycle, it changed direction a couple of times during emptying – am I right in assuming this is normal behaviour, balancing the load before fast spinning? It then went into slow spin, always maintaining the same spin direction, just never getting up to speed.

It made a bit of a noise, but not excessive – hadn’t noticed it before, but it wasn’t exactly terminal-sounding. Just a sort of background rattly hum (hard to describe, but it wasn’t squealing, it wasn’t grinding etc.)

The drum does appear to be slightly out of alignment – if you look at the outside edge of the drum you can see it “wobble”. I’d estimate it’s no more than 0.5cm of misalignment though, and I’ve no idea if this is normal or not (how often does your average bloke sit and watch his washing machine?)

Am I right in thinking that if the machine was (or believed it was) out of balance, it would have been constantly alternating direction during the last spin cycle?

Any suggestions for what I should look for if I open it up, or should I just bite the bullet and replace it? Suppose I might as well open it up first…

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I’m going to open her up tonight…

Is it fairly easy to get into Servis machines? I’m assuming I don’t need any special screwdriver bits to get the top/back off…

Going to check the belt tension (I understand it should be VERY tight, and if it’s white it’s worth replacing as a matter of course?)

Will have a look at the module, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to tell if there’s anything wrong with it! My brother’s got a multimeter, anything we can do with that to see if it’s at fault?

Thanks for all the help so far…

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Well, it didn’t fast spin even when empty 🙁

For the first part of the final (supposedly fast) cycle, it changed direction a couple of times during emptying – am I right in assuming this is normal behaviour, balancing the load before fast spinning? It then went into slow spin, always maintaining the same spin direction, just never getting up to speed.

It made a bit of a noise, but not excessive – hadn’t noticed it before, but it wasn’t exactly terminal-sounding. Just a sort of background rattly hum (hard to describe, but it wasn’t squealing, it wasn’t grinding etc.)

The drum does appear to be slightly out of alignment – if you look at the outside edge of the drum you can see it “wobble”. I’d estimate it’s no more than 0.5cm of misalignment though, and I’ve no idea if this is normal or not (how often does your average bloke sit and watch his washing machine?)

Am I right in thinking that if the machine was (or believed it was) out of balance, it would have been constantly alternating direction during the last spin cycle?

Any suggestions for what I should look for if I open it up, or should I just bite the bullet and replace it? Suppose I might as well open it up first…

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Thanks, I’ll keep an eye on it’s behaviour during the spin cycle…

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