The Lemon Fool

Apologies for the "how long is a piece of string?" question, but maybe someone will have some experience?

15 year old Bosch WFF 2000 washing machine has served us faultlessly but is now making loud and rhythmic banging noises from the general direction of the drum. Particularly during normal wash operations and on lower spin speeds, but at faster speeds the noise stops.

I'm not seeing a lot of excessive movement from the drum itself. Bearings? Detached stabiliser weight? Busted drum? Ring any bells with anyone?

I am one of those people who believe that everything is worth repairing once, but right now I'm rather busy, and I'm not sure I fancy the job much unless it's something I can see immediately by taking the back off and having a look. Any large/expensive parts and I'm probably going to splash £330 on a replacement and just say thank you for the 15 years.

What would you do, chums?

BJ

Buy new. 15 years is good, but other things are likely to fail soon. White goods have never been cheaper.

Apologies for being late in replying, Imbiber. Yes indeed, common sense prevailed in the end, and we have a new Bosch w/m being delivered this afternoon. 40% faster spin speed than the old one, all sorts of gizmos, and change out of £350 from John Lewis. Can't say fairer than that. My spanners can stay in their box!

Cheers

BJ

bungeejumper wrote:Apologies for being late in replying, Imbiber. Yes indeed, common sense prevailed in the end, and we have a new Bosch w/m being delivered this afternoon. 40% faster spin speed than the old one, all sorts of gizmos, and change out of £350 from John Lewis. Can't say fairer than that. My spanners can stay in their box!

Cheers

BJ

Keep those spanners handy..... faster spin speed means the machine can shuggle about a lot more if there is any unbalance. We bought a Miele a few years back. Higher spin speed and higher load capacity (= bigger drum) and it bounces around all over the place, despite attempts at levelling.

--kiloran

Anti vibration feet help.

Something like

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anti-Vibration ... chine+feet

Loads of different sort available stops the machine dancing

todthedog wrote:Anti vibration feet help.

Something like

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anti-Vibration ... chine+feet

Loads of different sort available stops the machine dancing

Yes! I bought some of those, but ...

How do you get your washing machine under a worktop onto those feet?

I never got them out of the packet as I assumed (wrongly?) that if I pull the machine out and then put the machine on top of them, then the machine isn't going to slide back into the recess.

Would love to be educated!

Meatyfool..

Ours fits under with a couple of cm to spare.
I guess that with the washing machine feet sitting inside it raised the machine by about 1 cm.

The new machine (which arrived 90 minutes ago) has integral screw adjusters for the height at the front. Unlike an integrated dishwasher, though, you don't seem to be able to lower it, then slide it into place, and then jack up the back legs. Unless, that is, I've missed something?

First wash is chuntering through at this very moment. Looking good so far.

BJ