Washing Machine Very Loud

notjustamum

Thanks for your advice everyone. I’m just going to get a new one as I think this one would be expensive to repair and I got it half price in a sale anyway - reduces from £700 to £350, so it owes me nothing really x

neilmcl

Chances are it may simply be the carbon brushes need replacing which is fairly straightforward and cheap to do if you can access and remove the motor.

mwarby

notjustamum said:

Thanks for your advice everyone. I’m just going to get a new one as I think this one would be expensive to repair and I got it half price in a sale anyway - reduces from £700 to £350, so it owes me nothing really x

so its probably done about 3000 loads aand cost about 10p a load, not too bad.

grumbler

neilmcl said:

Chances are it may simply be the carbon brushes need replacing which is fairly straightforward and cheap to do if you can access and remove the motor.

The motor is brushless

MollieGough

notjustamum said:

It’s actually a 1600rpm and having a family of 6, it does about 2 full loads every day. I’m not able to take it apart on my site own so I’m wondering if you think it’s worth trying to get it fixed or just invest in a new one? I’m worried about continuing to use it in case it goes on fire as the noise is horrendous. I was sat yesterday at the back of the garden with the kitchen window open and had to shout on the phone to be heard and it’s a long garden!

Same problem was with me , but my mechanic change the belt of it and it was very effective then .

Hasbeen

notjustamum said:

I have a Hotpoint Aqualtis AQ113D 697E Eco Tech 11kg machine. It is making a seriously loud noise, especially during spinning and a 45 min wash took nearly 2 hours!  When I emptied it I found the drum doesn’t move freely when I try to push it around, it seems to ‘bump’ around like it’s come off it’s runners. It’s 5 years old. Is it worth getting it fixed or am I better getting  a new one? Thanks

Loud noise, long time to wash. Simple thing to check would have been belt that appears to be slipping?

A quick pull out, a few minutes with Philips screwdriver to take access panel off,  check belt, take it off is easy, then turn drum by hand.

If still bumpy then probably you are correct to get new machine. As others have suggested perhaps bearing.

floppydisk1

If it was  motor  that would overheat and cut out or smell of burning or both, might be something in belt or pulley , check those if you can,but most likely culprit is  bearing. 5 year old Hotpoint  will be Indesit in posh coat or maybe already under Whirlpool as they bought whole Indent at around that time , in any case only thing common with old British make is the name and is Indent, Whirlpool ,Creda  etc in different coat but with the same  bits inside and will have almost certainly sealed drum/tank so you can't change bearing anyway, whole new drum assembly will be some 200 + labour so new machine time most likely.  Those sealed tanks/drums are really  order of the day on cheaper brands as that's how they can sell more of cheap machines - making them not worth repairing. Only one brand I  am 100 % certain that make no machine with sealed tank, but they don't come cheap. Having said that - I value quality material and quality engineering and machine  designed to last  ( that is simple to take apart and put back again ) higher than 50 different programs and " features " and massive  kg  load coupled with tiny bearing and plastic tank - designed to last 3 - 5 years max.....