Dishwasher packed up. Potential call out charges?

Leon_W

I've got exactly the same machine with probably exactly the same fault.


It starts sometimes, but more often than not, just after starting all the lights on the front start flashing. If we turn it off then on, maybe a few times it will start and run through the cycle normally.


There doesn't seem to be a lot of info on this machine but what I did find pointed to an electrical fault on the main board. Therefore the machine is scrap. I'm just putting up with it until it dies completely then I'll go out and buy a proper machine which doesn't have Hotpoint written on the front. Like yours, it's only about 3 years old.

toneeb

Leon_W wrote: »

I've got exactly the same machine with probably exactly the same fault.


It starts sometimes, but more often than not, just after starting all the lights on the front start flashing. If we turn it off then on, maybe a few times it will start and run through the cycle normally.


There doesn't seem to be a lot of info on this machine but what I did find pointed to an electrical fault on the main board. Therefore the machine is scrap. I'm just putting up with it until it dies completely then I'll go out and buy a proper machine which doesn't have Hotpoint written on the front. Like yours, it's only about 3 years old.

Cheers

Weirdly, mine has started to work again. I put it on a 60 minute wash (rather than the longer one) and it completed the whole cycle. No idea why its suddenly started to work.

Perhaps its just delaying the inevitable and I'll have to get a new one but fingers crossed, it'll keep going for a while longer!

Good luck with yours!

AlexMac

Glad its back in action; if you do replace, I'd recommend a bottom of the range Bosch. The one we'd inherited packed up (after 15 years!) and the manufacturer's minimum call out of £100 or so seemed daft compared with less than £300 to replace like for like. We're delighted with the new model, but even more so with John Lewis as a supplier. Their 2 year g'tee's free and previous experience proves their excellent no-quibble customer support.
In fact in a previous house, we bought a replacement dishwasher from them then, when the old one mysteriously sprang back into life (I managed to unblock the flooded 'float chamber' which was preventing the cycle ) JL cancelled on the morning of delivery and refunded me- after they's already put it on their van