On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:48:42 +0100, Toby
wrote:

Calvin Sambrook wrote:
"Phil L" wrote in message
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Calvin Sambrook wrote:

Guess what I'm doing this weekend! (Apart from dismantling it all
out of interest).

I'll wager 50p that one or more of the concrete blocks have come away
from their moorings, broken and the resulting debris has caused the
rest of the damage.


It's dark right now so no photos but I think I now know what happened.

The agitators (three plastic fins sticking into the drum) attach to the
inner drum by a fancy nut and bolt the head of which sticks into the
space between the two skins of the drum. Also in that space is the
heating element and normally the bolt head misses the heater. From the
current shape of the heating element, the gouge out of the inner drum
skin and what's left of the nut and bolt I'd say the bolt came loose and
caught the heater, mashing it further into contact with the drum. The
drum then continued to rotate for another 300 or so degrees with the
heater gouging into it and reshaping it as it went past.

All that energy bounced the drum around within the outer casing ripping
hoses off, tearing one of the support struts and smashing the concrete
block into the side walls of the machine so they dented outwards (I
wondered why it was so hard to get out of the gap it was in!).
Interestingly the block only lost a small chip off one corner.

Does anyone need any bits from an Indesit WIE167 before I Ebay things
like the motor, control board, pump etc?

Surely if it is only 2 years old, you can get it replaced under the sale
of goods act!?

You could be entitled to a free repair or a replacement if the problem
is not down to misuse. Contact the retailer. They may try to fob you
off but a washing machine should last more than two years.

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