Washing machine advice

badger09

OP If you do need a new one, the only one under £300 recommended by Which? is Indesit MTWC 91295 (9kg 1200 spin) 
Currently £280 @ Appliances Direct but also available elsewhere 

Leon_W

Another vote for Beko.  Just replaced a 12 year old that has had an absolute hammering over the years.   Got another Beko from AO delivered next day for under £300. 

I've always been of the mind that an £800 washer isn't going to get your clothes any cleaner, and, spending that kind of money you are "invested" in it so if it goes wrong in 7 years time you're inclined to repair it. I, on the other hand, would just go and buy another cheap one.

Vortigern

Could the burning smell be from burning rubber, caused by a drive belt problem?

Pingu1

Thanks for the advice, I've bought a new Beko washing machine, arriving Tuesday.

IvanOpinion

I know you are now sorted but .......

We just replaced our (almost) 10 year old machine. My line of thinking was that, the part I think was faulty would cost just under £50 (inc.delivery) and 1-2 hours of my time to fit, and then there is no guarantee that that would fix it. Of course I could call out an engineer and spend £100-200 on (hopefully) getting it working again, but still no guarantee. Even then in another few weeks something else could go wrong with it costing more. Not forgetting the possible damage risk to my kitchen of pulling the machine out and getting it back in again.

In the end I decided not to spend money on a machine that had served its purpose and we bought a new machine (had looked at the Beko but in the end went for a Haier). In a way I consider that I got it for half price because we did not have to spend money on fixing the old one.

Bigphil1474

We've had a few machines over the 30 years in this house. I'd say it has only been in the last 15 years that we've stopped getting repairs done. Our first washer lasted for a good 10 years and it was bought second hand, and it was usually the bushes (?) that went. We knew an old guy who fixed them and it didn't cost a lot. Last machine was about 5 years old, the computer had a fit and it stopped working, and wasn't worth fixing. 

Albermarle

Bigphil1474 said:

We've had a few machines over the 30 years in this house. I'd say it has only been in the last 15 years that we've stopped getting repairs done. Our first washer lasted for a good 10 years and it was bought second hand, and it was usually the bushes (?) that went. We knew an old guy who fixed them and it didn't cost a lot. Last machine was about 5 years old, the computer had a fit and it stopped working, and wasn't worth fixing. 

Replacing the bushes on the motor is one of the easy/not too costly repairs, that is usually worth doing.

EssexExile

Bigphil1474 said:

We've had a few machines over the 30 years in this house. I'd say it has only been in the last 15 years that we've stopped getting repairs done. Our first washer lasted for a good 10 years and it was bought second hand, and it was usually the bushes (?) that went. We knew an old guy who fixed them and it didn't cost a lot. Last machine was about 5 years old, the computer had a fit and it stopped working, and wasn't worth fixing. 

Brushes, but all customers call them bushes!

Bigphil1474

I think the brushes :-) are the only thing I've ever known to be fixed on a washing machine, not my area of knowledge, but they always seemed to be the first thing to go. 

IvanOpinion

I've had a couple of spiders (?) crack over the years (made the machine sound like a tractor with asthma) and with our last machine it just stopped heating the water (I am guessing the element had packed in.