Indesit Wixl 163 Machine Just Stopped

Had a look at the pcb and as there are a number of obviously heat damaged components, even soot! I'll stop my investigations there and get another budget machine. As it is date stamped 26/07 internally, not too bad for almost six years hard work.

Much obliged.

You could always have a look on the pcb's to check for anything obvious, but if you found anything blown you'd need to test components with a megga for insulation leaks, or work out what had blown it. Some washing machines can hold a nasty charge several minutes after being unplugged so don't poke around there until it's been unplugged 5 or 10 mins. Washing machine engineers don't normally repair pcb's they've always been trained to simply replace them, therefore unless we see a dry joint we don't repair them.

Hi Andy, Thanks for your reply, but just wondering if this is a common fault on the machines that armed with a decent multimeter and soldering iron I can fix? I am a marine engineer (suitable in the amount of bailing out I had to do) so not averse to getting my hands dirty and working in a safe environment without doing anything daft if pointed in the right direction.

Many thanks.