"Matthew Newton" wrote in
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Hi

Sorry if this has come up before. I've had a look and tried all the
suggestions I can find, but nothing so far has worked.

Problem: Washing machine (Hoover SoftWave, about 8 years old) sticks in
the middle of the cycle, sometimes more than once. When it does, it is
letting water flush through the drum. This happens indefinitely until the
control is clicked around, and then continues as normal.

It normally happens (so I am told by my wife) soon after the programme
starts, and before it is going to do its final spin. I guess, therefore,
when it is filling up at the beginning, and for the final rinse. It
doesn't always do it, though.

I have tried the following:

Removed the programmer switch, filled with WD40 and cleaned as much as
possible without dismantling.

Checked pipe to pressure switch. Seems all clear (cleaned small plastic
pot at bottom of the pipe where it connects to the drum, but wasn't a lot
of scale in it). Pressure switch clicks at different pressures when
blowing in the pipe.

Checked output drain pipe from the bottom of the drum. Completely clear as
far as I can see. Nothing obvious in the pump, which is also clear.

Does anyone have any other ideas? There doesn't seem much more
than can be wrong with it to me, unless the programmer itself is broken
internally. There are a couple of what look like sensors on the front
of the outer plastic drum in the machine (the bit that doesn't spin
round). Don't know what they are, could they cause problems?

Have had no problems with it at all so far, and don't want to waste money
for someone to pull out a paperclip or similar, if possible!

Thanks for any suggestions.

Matthew


Don't know if it's relevant but I had a similar thing happen a few years
ago.
The old machine's waste was plumbed directly into the household waste pipe -
did the same with the new machine and got similar symptoms to yours. This
only happened on certain programmes which is what confused me - called out
the engineer and he solved it immediately - appears my machine needed the
waste pipe to be hooked into an upright open waste pipe to prevent
'siphonage'. On certain progs (possibly during the rinse) the out going
water caused a siphon effect and the incoming water never reached a level to
cut off and so kept flowing. (Hope that makes sense).
On reflection I now wonder if I'd looped my flexible waste pipe high enough
in the first place things might have been ok.
Just wondered if your flexible waste pipe may have recently dropped down
behind the machine and it's no longer 'looping' high enough to prevent the
siphon effect.
Just a thought ..................................