Hotpoint and Indesit washing machine recall DEC 2019

Hi Andy. I think so, but hoover had the exact same fault on their soft-wave and new-wave washing machines. They had the same overheating at the door lock with the wires connecting to it baking and burning as far back as 2 or 3 inches. Sometimes the insulation on the wires melted completely exposing the charred copper wires.

On the Hoover door lock though, the wires were connected to the door lock using exactly the same 13 amp tags that were on every other wire (including the heating element). That’s why I reasoned that the heat was generated inside the metal switch of the door lock that they were connected to. The hoover door lock in question was actually just a very small micro switch.

Very true. The connector block to the doorlock. My dodgy memory truimphs again! Was the actual tags inside the 3 inline block - the tags surface area was not large enough for the current causing the wires and block to frizzle. The heater wire terminals were actually different.

Anyway that was all years ago now.

Hi Andy. I always thought it was the connections inside the door interlock that weren’t good enough, causing excessive heat that heated everything up right back to 2 inches of the cable.

It could be the connectors, though they didn’t have the same problem with connectors on the heating element drawing nearly 13 amps. And of course if it was the connector, it’s still down to poor quality. The fact that it happened in the 1980s and still happened 30 years later is a disgrace.

In my experience at the time it wasn`t the actual door locks at fault it was the wire terminals going to it. The connector was not butch enough to take the current and so the wires over heated where their teminal block plugged into the interlock which gives the impression it was the door locks (the interlock) being at fault when it was infact it was the connector block. You could also say that many more models NOT listed this also occured and was a problem.