Have a reasonably new Washing Machine .... and bearing is on its way out on the drum. Groaning badly if you rotate by hand and very noisy on spin ......(no shaking or vibration of machine though) Its a Hotpoint WMUD962 Ultima Local repair guys (who are trustworthy & honest) advised on this model bearing is on inner drum and there is a sealed outer nylon drum - bearing can't be replaced. (great design idea) Needs a new drum tub, £140 from Hotpoint.
Found new one at £90 ..... comes complete with heater.
Anybody changed one of theses drums .... any tips/hints.
Ours failed at around 2 years. A search revealed a couple of utube vids of the repair. The bearings (better spec.)can be found for around a tenner. The repair is effected by carefully splitting the drum apart and glueing back together with silicone + self tappers. The video strip down and reassembly may be helpful for you. At £90, I think it's a lot less grief, but the replacement will fail the same way. I will never buy another hotpoint (or rebadged clone).
We had Bendix before - which was a WHICH best buy for reliability - failed after 5 years (bearings) replaced them myself, then programmer failed - so scrapped it.
The local guys won't offer bearing only change ... probably as you have to split the drum. I have ordered the drum ... is this a fairly straight forward job to do
Yes but I bet that was when Hotpoint was Hotpoint, and not just another name purchased off a bankrupsy pile by Whirlpool or one of the other major suspects, who mostly don't give a shit till something catches fire. Brian
Exactly. We had a Hoptpoint that lasted nearlyu 20 years.
The replacement knackered its bearings in just over a year (P+L warranty of 1 year). Parts warranty (3 years I think) was useless given the labour costs.
Fixed price repair for £98.
It started to fail again a year later. WE gave it away (with warnings) and bought a Bosch.
Yes, several. Pretty easy if like for like but ...
We picked up a 13 month old Zanussi from Freecycle that had been written off (sealed tub like yours) because of a failed bearing, otherwise it looked like new.
We got it home and stripped it down and noticed the tub was designed to be screwed together by various lugs around the central seam. So I drilled the lugs out to M6 and then carefully cut round the seam with a saber saw.
After replacing the bearings I made a seal from some round section neoprene (with a spliced joint at the top) and after placing stainless steel spacer washers [1] at each bolt hole, applied a bead of CT1 sealant around both sides of the join (and under the neoprene seal) and then carefully placed the open end onto the main tub, put the bolts though and nipped up the Nylok nuts.
Allowed to cure overnight, passed a leak test the next day and carried on working for a further ~8 years.
I could have bought a replacement splittable tub but apparently it would have need a different drum, dampers and some other bits (costing more than a new one).
Cheers, T i m
[1] We needed to use the spacer washers to replace the plastic removed by the saber saw or the drum would rub on the inside of the tub mouth.
Hotpoint WMUD762 Drum was 50% of cost that dealer wanted to charge (Hotpoint retail price) much cheaper and free postage via eBay
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Was 2.5 Hrs of fun ....... I found a video on-line of how to change a drum..... gave some clues. Biggest issue was the videos all showed front being removed and drum out that way. Front is welded on for this model .... Had to come out through the top ..... heavy with bottom weight attached - but could not remove that until drum was out.
Refitting all was quick enough.
Hardest part was trying to figure out how to get door latch off .... all videos show it is fitted by 2 screws - no screws on this version - took some fun to remove.
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