Narrow washing machine - reviews

On narrow washing machines, the reviews are very different and there are a lot of them. Even without particularly straining, you can find a hundred different opinions about these washers. However, our task was to find the real opinions of the most experienced users or even masters of repair of washing machines and this is what came of it.

Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B

Vladimir Sevastyanov, Nizhny Novgorod

I am a repairman for washing machines with 20 years of experience. What kind of cars did not have to open. Sometimes there are malfunctions that you look for for several days, and then you think how best to fix them. I am writing this review because in one of the large network companies selling equipment, Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B washing machines of very low quality appeared at a great discount. And to our person that, if only cheaply, they will take it. Her price, by the way, is only about $ 230, by modern standards, for a brand such as Hotpoint Ariston is not money at all.

So, closer to the point. Over the past 1.5 months, five buyers of these machines have contacted my workshop. Everyone says that they were "rented" with warranty repairs, but not only this unites them.

• All bought Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B cars and laundered from 2 to 5 months.

Surprisingly, none of the five customers had a narrow Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B washing machine that didn’t even work for six months.

• Three out of five bearings failed, one burned out the control board, and another burned out the heater. The latter still happily got off, because in the first four cases the repair got up very expensive.
• None of the customers violated operating conditions.

The first opening of the case and a cursory inspection showed that such machines lack FPS. I can’t say for sure if this is provided by the design of this model or just a batch of machines without FPS came, but the fact remains. One of the clients has lost a control board, most likely due to the lack of FPS. For a modern automatic washing machine, the absence of an interference filter is a significant drawback.

Then I had to deal with bearings. The tank at the Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B washing machine is non-separable, so before change the bearing in the washing machine Hotpoint AristonI had to cut it. This is not the first time I have encountered such a difficulty, so the operation to turn a non-separable tank into a separable tank was successful. When I got to the bearings, it turned out that they were almost dry, we can say that there is no lubricant at all, it is not surprising that they soon collapsed.

Most interesting is the fact that the bearings were made of some unusually soft alloy. He took out a damaged bearing and quite easily bent it with his fingers so that it turned out to be a figure eight. I don’t remember that I once encountered a similar one. Put normal bearings and FPS from another Ariston and gave the washer to customers. Those who handled the burned heating element received a washing machine the next day. I also installed the FPS and replaced the thermal sensor with the heating element.

The moral of this narrative is this: do not get fooled by advertisements, don’t buy washers of dubious quality and if you buy something from the technique, carefully fill out the warranty card and make sure that it contains all the necessary seals and signatures. If you encounter a similar situation, you should not run to the workshop to repair the machine at your own expense. Hire a lawyer, go to court and defend your consumer rights there, because no matter how buyers will teach a careless seller to comply with consumer protection laws.

Ilya, Moscow

The day before yesterday, they brought this washing machine to my service. I calculated how much the repair would cost, the amount came out normal.Tonight I will please the client, I think he will choose to buy a new car, since it is unreasonable to give almost a hundred dollars for repairs when you gave a little more than two hundred for the entire washer. This tip I want to warn other buyers from acquiring Hotpoint Ariston VMUF 501 B. Rubbish, not a machine, the assembly is terrible, and the details are clearly clandestine in China!

Candy GOYE 105LS-07

Elena, Tver

I can consider myself an experienced user of automatic washing machines, because I owned a total of seven different washers. Candy GOYE 105LS-07 is my eighth automatic washing machine. Choose a machine consciously. I needed to:

• the washer could squeeze the laundry at a speed of at least 1000 rpm, as practice has shown that
  

  

  satisfactory spinning of cotton items at a lower speed of rotation of the drum is not possible;

• the washing machine contained at least 5 kg of things;
• the machine had a display, preferably an informative display and intuitive controls;
• the machine should be narrow so that it fits in our small bathroom without any problems;
• the washer should be relatively reliable and have many positive reviews from users.

Candy GOYE 105LS-07 meets all of the above requirements, however, I still found some flaws during almost 7 months of operation and I hasten to share my thoughts with you. First of all, it bothered me that you should not put less than 1.5-2 kg of laundry in the machine.

If you put things less than 1.5-2 kg, it erases normally, but on the spin it either hangs, or just spins the drum idle, and the laundry remains completely wet.

Candy GOYE 105LS-07 has a too large gap between the edge of the drum and the cuff. It turns out that the cuff covers this space very badly. As a result, such small things as socks, panties are pulled into the tank quite easily and then it is problematic to pull them back. Once, even a baby T-shirt was pulled into the tank. We quickly found a way out of the situation, now we wash all small things in a special bag, although I note that I did not encounter similar problems when I had other brands of washers.

Also in the first month of operation, I found that the washing machine tore a duvet cover. It's good that it was an old duvet cover, and not, for example, a new blouse. The husband put his hands into the drum, very carefully felt it from the inside and found several metal burrs, which he immediately removed with a file and sandpaper. Now my car does not spoil things, but as I read on the forums, I have not had a single similar problem. Well, all that I thought was necessary, I told you, draw your own conclusions!

Vadim Moscow

3 years ago, I adjusted myself to repair washing machines myself. First, Indesit repaired our first washing machine, suffered for a long time. Then he did the Siemens typewriter with his mother-in-law, he managed already much faster and more confidently. Now I'm doing our new Candy GOYE 105LS-07 washer. As it turned out, the thermal sensor burned out. This surprises me, because this is the second thermal sensor that I put on it over the past year. I talked with the masters on the forums, it turned out that the temperature sensor is a sore spot for Kandy’s washing machines, “live a century, learn a century”.

Indesit EWUD4103

Yana, city of Prokopyevsk

We have a specific niche in the bathroom, left to us by the workers. During the first repair, we decided to lay it with bricks and seal it with tiles. So we all stood until the next repair. On the eve of a major overhaul in the bathroom, I had the idea to put the niche back in operation by putting a washing machine in it. The problem was that the husband could only determine its length and width, and the depth was somehow forgotten. As a result, my husband assured me that the niche was no less than 40 cm deep, and I seriously thought about putting a narrow washer there.

Tolley somewhere we were mistaken in the calculations, the roofing felts felted us the memory, but as a result, when the husband picked a niche, it turned out that it was only 30 cm in depth.I didn’t want to change the plans, so we began to look intensely for a washing machine with a depth of 30 centimeters, but as you know, we could not find such machines, they simply weren’t. And then, unexpectedly luck, the new Indesit EWUD4103 model came out and was not very expensive.

The advertisement promised that its body had a depth of only 30 cm, but in fact it turned out that, given the handle, 33 cm came out, but it suited us.

The quality of the washing machine was also up to par. It erases perfectly, holds 4 kg of linen, not enough, but you can put up with it. Squeezes at a speed of 1000 rpm - generally fine. There are tons of features and washing programs. We were very pleased with the purchase and saved a place in the bathroom by placing the machine in a niche.

Sergey Emelyanov, Rostov-on-Don

The washing machine is great. I bought it recently, but already felt that it is much better than my 4 previous ones. I especially liked the selection of washing programs. In the arsenal of cars only the necessary programs, no garbage. Now I have looked again at the Indesit brand washers and henceforth I will never say that they are poor-quality and clumsy, and just recently I thought just that.

In conclusion, we note the feedback from experienced users and specialists about narrow washing machines is very mixed. It all depends on the specific brand and model. One thing is for sure, the reviews of knowledgeable people are mostly informative, they know exactly what they are writing about, which means there is a reason to listen to their opinion. Good luck