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My washing machine has just stopped spinning this evening. It's a Hoover 1400 AAA, two years old. I have managed to get the washing out, but there is still water in it.

Anyone know what's wrong with it? Is it terminal?

Thanks

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Is it a 140 or a 160?
Does it display an error number?>

1400 AAA is what it says on the front

Put the drain hose down at floor level into a bowl to see if the water runs out freely. If it doesn't then your filter is blocked. If water comes out freely, you may have an object of some sort blocking the drain pump. Remove the filter and see if you can see it. Careful with the water, you might have to raise the pipe to stop the flow and empty the bowl.
Ken.

Mine did that a few months ago. I thought either the pump had died, or the belt connecting it to the motor.

I put it through a spin only cycle and could hear the thing trying to pump. I took the back off the machine, took the pump outlet off (the one that goes to the (outdoor) drain).

Examined the bottom of the pump and found about £4.00 in small change blocking it up.

Its worked OK since.

Have a look at   http://www.howtomendit.com/   and enter your machine type into the search. There may be something usefull there .

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

What would I do without you?! I now have a very damp kitchen, found a big lump of fluff in the filter and it's working perfectly!

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!!!

;)

Happy you managed. ...and you did it all in less than an hour! You is something else, Katy. Well done.

(Also mentioned about raising the pipe when your bowl got full. No wonder you wet your kitchen....Tsk!.. :P )

Glad you got it all sorted Katy.  That sometimes happened with my old washer and the amount of stuff I found in the filter when I eventually looked was phenominal.  I am sure the wet kitchen was worth it.  Happy laundering again!  :) busy_lizzie 

Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on January 19, 2008, 21:54:06
Mine did that a few months ago. I thought either the pump had died, or the belt connecting it to the motor.

I put it through a spin only cycle and could hear the thing trying to pump. I took the back off the machine, took the pump outlet off (the one that goes to the (outdoor) drain).

Examined the bottom of the pump and found about £4.00 in small change blocking it up.

Its worked OK since.

Have a look at   http://www.howtomendit.com/   and enter your machine type into the search. There may be something usefull there .

BUGGA! 3rd attempt now to reply..

Bugga! So what I wanted to post but got timed-out was....

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Mine did that a few months ago. I thought either the pump had died, or the belt connecting it to the motor.

I took the back off the machine...

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Amazing! How on earth did you manage to move the m/c to get at the back of it? Mine's firmly stuck to the floor :-[ You gotta be a Martha Stewart type? :P ;D

So pleased you fixed it Katy 8)...please, please don't tell me you moved your machine as well? :o

wow think of the money you saved!

My washing machine 7 years old now and used just about daily went bang mid dec last year and it cost me £45inc vat for him to tell me it needed a new spring which cost 25p machine fixed and serviced its still going strong :)

Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on January 20, 2008, 15:46:03


How on earth did you manage to move the m/c to get at the back of it?

By using my skill and judgement, and when that failed shear brute force.
Modern machines are not that heavy, and can be swung around with a little persuasion.