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Re: Hotpoint Aqualtis AQXXD 169 PM Washing Machine Blocked E

Guys,

Thanks from taking the time to reply and the suggestioins as they all helped.

Anyway – to cut a long story short, the filing problem was in fact a small peice of circular rubber behind the filter on the water inlet.

The rubber was partially worn partially restricting the water flow such that it did not fill up in time! In fact, it was right on the cusp of the timing limit and would “sometimes” make it!

The pressure switch was all OK and I tested this by submerging the presuure switch & tube in a bucket and noting how many mm it took to trigger.

Just to help me further – having solved this, the cycle would get all the way to the end and never finish…. this was the heater element open circuit! New one fitted – all OK. This is a bit gob smacking as the drum has a temperature sensor which it could use to detect no increase in temperature and then report a specific error? But no no …. that would be too easy!

It was bit of a marathon but I wanted to pass this on to anyone else who may need it in the future.

Thanks once again. 😀

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