Washing m/c reluctant to start

I would hazard a guess it's the door thermal interlock to stop it opening and throw a contact to start the program. In mine there were a couple of thermister disks which had trouble making contact, and hence didn't heat up the bimetalic ,mechanical (inter) lock.

I took mine apart and after a few scrapes and cleaning up surfaces I've had trouble free operation. Getting a hand between the drum and machine front is fraught if you have large arms!!

Wouldn't that prevent any cycle from operating though? It's just the wash cycle that's playing up. I can turn the dial to a spin cycle and that will work every time.

Sorry, you said the machine wouldn't start.

On mine there's also mechanical interlock which is engaged when rotating the programmer.

The programmer has to be in one of a number of physical positions otherwise I can't open the door, so that when power's off, I can't inadvertently open the door when it's full of water. It could be that these two interlocks interact in some way or another.

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Thanks for responding nonetheless.

Anyone else have any ideas please? Is it likely to be the dial, voltage issues, water inlet, water pressure?

Its hard to see how it would be anything other than the programmer, aka the main pcb nowadays. You might get an identical scrapped machine for the part.

NT

I was a bit hasty in dismissing your diagnosis. The machine would sometimes work if I kicked the door shut, but still other times it might take 24-48 hrs before it decided to start the wash cycle. Once started it was fine.

The door interlock showed signs of overheating (there's a brilliant videojug video showing how to get the lock out), and with some help from the folk at

Thanks for the pointers.