Help fixing my oven!

thomaspassmore

Long shot, but I wonder if anyone is an expert in ovens

I have a Bosch HBN131550B and yesterday the oven stopped working. Neither the grill of over heat up. When I turn the oven on, there is the quiet sound of a fan (not the one by the element) and the thermostat light is not on

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks
Tom

phill99

Elements or thermostat! (Just because the thermostat light is on, doesn't mean the thermostat is working)

thomaspassmore

The thermostat light isnt on so...

Is there a way of telling if it's the thermostat before buying an element?

Thanks
Tom

fletchflash

Remove the element first-

Take the back of the oven off.
Remove connectors and screws
Then put your head in oven and remove more screws and element.

When you have removed the element check to see for any damage. Often if faulty the element may have ruptured and split.

If you cant see any damage you can test if you can get hold of a multi-meter. The resistance in ohms for a 2-2.5kw element should be about 21ohms.

If either of those test indicate element get another off ebay.

If not then its stat

McKneff

Just a thought, friend of mine complained her oven had stopped working.
I asked her if she had it on normal or automatic, she fiddled with a knob and it came on, apparently one of the kids had been fiddling with it and left it on 'automatic'


Long shot but worth a try.

bondy01

I put a new element in my oven a month or so ago for less than £20. I was originally going to buy a new cooker. It was a reasonably straight forward job , there are videos on the net. Mine didn't look ruptured but measured open circuit between the connections. The thermostat light not being on could mean it is not the element though. Is it the same element for the oven and grill? An element failing is quite common but if it is two different ones it is (probably) unlikely.

Ms_Chocaholic

We had a similar problem with our Siemens oven, it was the element. My partner replaced it with a non-Siemens replacement but, after about 6 months it kept blowing the fuse and we had to replace it again for a proper Siemens replacement element which is going strong 18 months later.

It was definitely false economy to buy the non-Siemens part, we had to buy 2 and twice as much work.

bondy01

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

. My partner replaced it with a non-Siemens replacement but, after about 6 months it kept blowing the fuse and we had to replace it again for a proper Siemens replacement element which is going strong 18 months later.

Interesting , when I was looking around there were some non genuine Beko elements a few quid cheaper but I had read comments about the screw holes not being correct so went for a genuine one (assuming it was!).

thomaspassmore

Thanks fletch. That's very helpful. On the back of the oven which one of the many wires goinginto a little box is the thermostat. Can I test it by taking the two wires that go in and out and connecting them? Or is that a bad idea? I don't want to buy an element and then find out its a different one

To answer other qns the grill and oven have separate elements...
Cheers

thomaspassmore

If it is the oven element would you expect the grill to work?

If they're both not working does that indicate something else?

bondy01

thomaspassmore wrote: »

If it is the oven element would you expect the grill to work?

If they're both not working does that indicate something else?

Looking online it seems to be a single oven with a top oven/grill element and a circular oven element lower down in which case the grill should work if the lower element is faulty. If the thermostat is not lighting up then I would suspect that rather than 2 elements. As mentioned if you know anyone with a multimeter you could check the resistance across the element terminals (they are a lot dearer than Beko ones) I would guess that the stat would control both oven and grill temp so is more likely to be faulty but I'm not a cooker expert so may well be wrong!