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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Yebbut didn't need the interweb for that - Frank Zappa told us that ages ago!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
We had a shower that kept cutting out multiple times in a shower to finally not working at all, and the call out looked like it was going to be in the £100 to £200 range, so Mr Summerdays decided to take off the cover and have a look - found lots of crud in a filter thing, washed it, reassembled and turned the power back on, and the problem has not reoccurred since!
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Duty idiot
- Location
- Leighton Buzzard
[QUOTE 4036435, member: 76"]I have a Bosch dishwasher, this afternoon the display showed E15, which didn't seem good, the pump was running but water was being fed. I tried a reset, unplugging all sorts, no joy. The call-out fee for a local engineer is £'s and I can't afford that this month. So, I Googled the error message and read the first response. "Pull the dishwasher away from the wall, with it switched on, tilt it backwards a good way, put it down and it should be fixed."
Oh yeah right mate, like that's going to bloody work, you muppet. Sooooo I pulled it away from the wall, switched it on, tilted it back and 'whirrr, clunk, whoosh, whirrr' error message gone, unit working perfectly
That must have saved me dozens of £s, thank-you anonymous engineer man
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E15 - had a huge saga with that error message last year, so I can share the following:
First of all - if you are out of manfacturer's warranty DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, use KNOW HOW (Curry's Dixons's fix people). Long long story - over 6 months - featuring dozens of calls, emails and Tweets (name and shame on Twitter and you get quick responses) 8 visits, 6 different call centres, 5 different customer service cases, 2 floods, 1 torn kitchen floor and still no working dishwasher. However, they eventually did replace my machine after I threatened them with BBC consumer department intervention.
Second - the issue could be that your dishwasher's tank (which recycles the water during running) that may need replacing due to limescale and/or salt deposits building up over time, and the water not being able to drain quickly enough, giving you the alarm and the breakdown. The SEVENTH engineer who came to look at mine - a local one, not one of the KnowHow muppets - discovered as much.
So, if it goes again, and you bring in a local engineer, rather than one from a big company, get him to check the tank. I don't know what the replacement cost might be, but it could be cheaper than replacing the entire machine.
Or it might be worthwhile getting Bosch itself out for their fixed price service. May be a bit more expensive, but at least they know at what they're looking.
Oh yeah right mate, like that's going to bloody work, you muppet. Sooooo I pulled it away from the wall, switched it on, tilted it back and 'whirrr, clunk, whoosh, whirrr' error message gone, unit working perfectly
That must have saved me dozens of £s, thank-you anonymous engineer man
[/QUOTE]E15 - had a huge saga with that error message last year, so I can share the following:
First of all - if you are out of manfacturer's warranty DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, use KNOW HOW (Curry's Dixons's fix people). Long long story - over 6 months - featuring dozens of calls, emails and Tweets (name and shame on Twitter and you get quick responses) 8 visits, 6 different call centres, 5 different customer service cases, 2 floods, 1 torn kitchen floor and still no working dishwasher. However, they eventually did replace my machine after I threatened them with BBC consumer department intervention.
Second - the issue could be that your dishwasher's tank (which recycles the water during running) that may need replacing due to limescale and/or salt deposits building up over time, and the water not being able to drain quickly enough, giving you the alarm and the breakdown. The SEVENTH engineer who came to look at mine - a local one, not one of the KnowHow muppets - discovered as much.
So, if it goes again, and you bring in a local engineer, rather than one from a big company, get him to check the tank. I don't know what the replacement cost might be, but it could be cheaper than replacing the entire machine.
Or it might be worthwhile getting Bosch itself out for their fixed price service. May be a bit more expensive, but at least they know at what they're looking.
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Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
We have a monitor in the kitchen that tells us how much heating oil is left. Oil level data is sent via a small transmitter attached to the tank outside, which has copper battery about 6 inches long.
When the battery ran out, I looked at replacing it and found it would cost over £100! Sod that I thought, I'll just use a stick! Anyway, after a bit of research on the World Wide Wait, I discovered these 'batteries' are just empty copper tubes with 3 AA batteries in them!
So I just unscrewed it (bit of a faff) and replaced the 3 batteries with new ones for about a quid. Unfortunately I mentioned this to my neighbour (who has the same device) a day or so after he'd just orderd a new one for £100. He wasn't best pleased!
I cant believe companies are charging £100 for what is effectively 3 AA batteries in a tube, and getting away with it.
When the battery ran out, I looked at replacing it and found it would cost over £100! Sod that I thought, I'll just use a stick! Anyway, after a bit of research on the World Wide Wait, I discovered these 'batteries' are just empty copper tubes with 3 AA batteries in them!
So I just unscrewed it (bit of a faff) and replaced the 3 batteries with new ones for about a quid. Unfortunately I mentioned this to my neighbour (who has the same device) a day or so after he'd just orderd a new one for £100. He wasn't best pleased!
I cant believe companies are charging £100 for what is effectively 3 AA batteries in a tube, and getting away with it.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Jealous - our tank which is a big 3000L jobbie (used to hold a small fortune in oil but not so much nowadays since the bum fell out of the oil market) has a clear tube going up the outside which shows the level.
I like the sound of your piece of kit - guess that makes me a lazy sod.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
Yep it is useful, when it works. It hates powercuts for example and throws a wobbly for hours afterwards.
Amazing how cheap it is to fill the tank at the moment. I'm no longer having to lob bricks into the tank to keep the level up!
jefmcg
Guru
I'd just like to speak up for Bosch. My mother tended to most of the household appliances, and when she could not longer help us, I tried to sort things out as best I could for dad. The Bosch dishwasher wasn't dissolving all the soap (they used powder not tablets). It was under warranty, so I called Bosch. Helpful lady who answered told us the callout would be free, if a fault was found, but the first thing the engineer would do is turn the wash temperature up, and if it worked it would be deemed to not be fault, and we would be charged. So we tried this, and it fixed the problem - still frustrating as it used to work ok on the economy setting. Then I set about convincing dad to switch to tablets.
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
