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Re: john lewis JLDWS1208
Follow up. It was the motor. What happened was the plastic conveyor was split and spraying H2O on to the base, the float swt`s polystyrenne float, er….didn`t and so the motor got covered in water. Surprisingly, and this was a fear, the pcb wasn`t goosed; a bit of luck!
Re: john lewis JLDWS1208
Thx Martin. Yes the motor runs very slowly. I`ll put it to the customer and see if he wants to go ahead.
Re: bosch d/w sms53e12gb/01 (about 4 years old)
He has indeed. Outrageous!!!!
Luckily his side line business as a theatre Dresser and make-up artist keeps him occupied for evening work fitting costumes to 19 to 25 year old actresses though he tells me it only pays 6 quid an hour; not much I hear you cry but apparently this is all he can afford!!!Re: bosch d/w sms53e12gb/01 (about 4 years old)
Yes it is low, very low for this rip off area, because it`s close to Sin city but this reflects three things (1) I`m never without work, not a single day, word gets around very fast that I don`t fleece people. (2) I mostly deal with repairs to pretty old, originally cheap to medium priced machines, where noone is going to spend a fortune getting stuff fixed or they`ll scrap the stuff, afterall a replacement machine is cheap to buy whether it is a pile of Euro/Asian modern eco based cr*p is immaterial-I refuse to sell any new machines because of this.I also repair very cheap brands like Bush…Vestel stuff because someone has to and I like them for what they are……so there!! Good business when you know what spares fit what and avoid Partmaster/Connects outrageous parts prices for these machines…..25 quid for a belt; a bunch of tos*ers, so some have said, but of course I never would! Most of my work is by word of mouth, but I do alot of flyers too and my area is fairly small-no tearing off 30 miles to a job for me anymore. (3) My vehicle is 16 years old but looks good, not a tatty wreck, but is worth nothing and so expendable at MOT times should the need arise and so no fancy new van on costly HP. Most of my jobs are between £35 and £80 with most being £60 and I do not get involved, or only rarely, with p c board replacements. Bearings I have a different charge rate which is variable depending on the machine- usually 80 to 110 quid with perhaps a few other parts chucked in to the bargain as and when. I do some letting agent/ private LL`s work, not too much just enough, and I`m am choosey who I`ll do work for until I know them ( and visa versa )and how much until I`m paid what they owe me-I very rarely get problems and when I do it is an admin error. Business is good 3 to 5 jobs a day, usually 4 but getting better, 5 days a week, work it out! Trying to breath some realistic thinking in to this sorry trade, over charge and you`ll get few jobs- people hate feeling they`ve been ripped off as much as you and I do, charge something realistic and reasonable and people will get `em repaired and come back again and tell their mates, shame garage mechanics don`t do likewise: a bunch of lying deceitful sharks most of them, at least around here! And above all it is better than working my arse off to fund some other buggers` life style by working for someone else and allows me just enough time to run my other side line business.
Re: Hotpoint Ultima Wmud843p
Might be the actual interlock door switch ( part number C00285597 about 12 quid ), if the door does not lock. Failing that, at a guess, you could be right and the pcb could be at fault-with Hotpoint any thing is conceivable regardless of age! Do not buy the pcb and try to do it yourself as they have to be onsite programmed and in anycase your under a five year freebee parts warranty so in this case you`ll have to call them out unless you feel happy buying and trying a door lock first-at 12 quid verses a 100 quid call out for any freebee parts perhaps you should.
Re: bosch d/w sms53e12gb/01 (about 4 years old)
No Martin, near Reading, but I know who you were thinking of.
Re: bosch d/w sms53e12gb/01 (about 4 years old)
Her idea to scrap it certainly not my idea! Yes I looked up the price and it is reasonable I`d be the first to agree and I quoted a reasonable figure to get the job- I`m only charging labour and call out at 35 quid plus parts and that is round Henley-on-Thames hardly classed as a “poor area”- though many are probably in debt up to their eye balls if truth be known; shame she`s choosen to throw it, what a waste! Mind you last year I went to repair a Hotpoint w/m and a bloke turned up to collect a Miele built-in frothy coffee machine, 2000 grands worth, got talking to the owner and she said she`d had Miele out to repair the thing, twice, I won`t touch the things even though I was never asked to, and was quoted 600 quid to repair the offending thing- it was going out on its final journey into oblivion, and if what she told me are the correct figures why bother with this expensive stuff anymore.There again, she`s replaced it with a table top R/Hobbs thing, I think, so that should last hmm, let me think, 2 years at the most? The best thing is to have nothing or the bear minimum, maybe we should all look to the Jains for inspiration?
Re: pro action
Check that the alloy drum pulley centre hole only is worn-soft metal. Check the steel spindle flats it might be ok and only the pulley is zapped. You`ll have problems getting a pulley under the Pro Action label but might have better luck under the Bush label as both are Vestel made contraptions. Try Partmaster site and type in Bush and see if one of their pulleys match what you have. This may work for you and save the machine.
Re: bosch d/w sms53e12gb/01 (about 4 years old)
After a lot of hassle discovered that the impellor was warped rather than something trapped in the wash motor. Scrapped! Sing a long: Another one bites the dust and another one gone and another one`s gone…..I used to have respect for Bosch products once up to 2006 but this newer stuff is rubbish, better off with a Beko dishwasher at least they`re cheap to fix and if not at least you haven`t lost much which is what the real Green Agenda in whitegoods was always going to be and is, in other words why buy something micro proccessor based, as they all are these days, because no matter how much you spend they can all go pop at anytime; as they do; as they will with the old Bosch models, and most other makes, the timers were the last things to fail and you could rely on them not to. So it is better to devalue as scrap to 10 quid from 200 than devalue from 500+ to 20 quid spares or repair is it not?
Re: candy grando gc1472 d1
Yes, your right Rograbbit. I keep getting these and other elements going down to earth slightly which mucks up the pcboard temporarily. Wonder why? Perhaps rather than poor quality elements it is the low water levels and that they are cold fill only, though to be fair most if not all machines from a distant past except older Hotpoints and Hoovers tended to be cold fill on 40 or less degree washing in any case. Or it could just be pcboards are microprocessors rather than just simple speed control units these days but this hardly answers the question; I suspect it is low water levels. Also, thinking about it, washing machine cleaners that foam- perhaps as the water turns to mostly foam the heater then goes wrong, to date I have no proof, but an interesting idea all the same. Anyone want to make a comment or two with their own thoughts on the subject?
