Hotpoint Aquarius WD420

Yep, another reviewer advising against buying this machine. They might as well have delivered it straight to the tip. We got this on special offer from comet at half the retail price. At the time we thought we'd found a bargain as it seemed to have everything we needed - including cycles for delicates and hand wash only items We'd had it about a week when the electrics went. It took comet 2 weeks to send out an engineer to look at it. The engineer said that we were very lucky not to be standing near it at the time, because the faulty electronics would have killed us as they blew. We decided to return it to the shop ourselves. ...

DON'T BUY THIS MACHINE!
I bought one new for £350 and 18 months later it is going in the bin! After 3 months the electronics broke down and it refused to start a new program. It was under warranty so an engineer plugged in a laptop and reset it. Now after 18 months the electronics have broken again and its out of warranty. As its electronics only Hotpoint can repair it. They want to charge £160 to repair with a 1 year warranty. A quick look on the internet and talking to some independent repairmen shows that this is a very unreliable model. So who knows how long it would last after that year! I have decided to bin it and get a Bosch washing machine instead as the dryer function was useless anyway!

Oh my goodness! I have honestly never experienced such an unreliable machine! I bought my WD420 brand new, and had to call out an engineer within the first three weeks! Six weeks later, three more call outs, three new control panels, as it seems whatever goes wrong with the machine burns out the electrics, my machine was replaced. The handbook/instructions that you receive with the machine are incredibly vague, not even listing the most basic/common of fault codes. The main problem with this machine is that it has no external filter, so if it gets clogged, as it often does, as it seems incapable of washing dirty clothes or woollens, so it begins ...