Bosch washing machine problem

When I had similar problems with similar age Bosch machine it turned out to be main motor brushes. "Branded" ones not cheap, unbranded via ebay or google worked fine for me.

Not too difficult to replace, I think I had to remove the motor.

Don't know if it applies to yours, but one common problem on these is when the heater element fails, it can block or greatly extend the wash programs since it gets into a state where it expects and event that never happens.

Its easy enough to test the heater, have a look at:

I have in the past found some helpful ones at

I've even seen the pcb kind of getting v apourised around joints for components. Often due to escessive current from the relay or motors.

Often when they get to this sort of state you fix one thing and another bit drops off!

Brian

After 10 years I'd expect the brushes to be close to worn out so defintely worth checking.

A bit fiddly IIRC.

Take a look at the filter. My bastard of a Hotpoint would not work last night; the filter had a colour catcher stuck in it.

It was the colour catcher ...