Ariston Magherita

[hooverkeymatic]

Hi again!

Does anyone have any pics of the Margherita washing machines by Ariston.Has anyone ever had one? Were they any good?

Thanks!

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Ariston Drum:

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Arison Options and Dials:

 

[electron800]

That particular one is just an Indesit/Hotpoint I think

Therefore nothing but trouble. These seem to be extremely common machines around here, a number of my friends have them and they're always going wrong as you would expect!

The older margherita's of the 80's/90's were much better, pretty decent machines if I'm honest.

Matt

 

[thomasortega]

Will they launch the Ariston Cosmopolitan or The Ariston Sex on the Beach someday? LOL

 

[hooverkeymatic]

My mothers friend has one and it is pretty good i must say.It spins very well at lower speeds and it washes and rinses great too!I think they look very nice.I dont like the look of the digital model though.

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Ariston Washing on Daily Wash:

 

[zodawash]

Ariston

I had the 1500 spin one for about a year from brand new. It washed rinsed and spun very well. However although mine didn't break under warranty they are known to be pretty unreliable with bearing failures and main board failures, plus the plastic worktops and facias were liable to crack on many of them. I've seen loads like that. So a pretty machine but have a tool kit handy. I'd still have one though! Its a nice design.

Steve

 

[hooverkeymatic]

zodawash...

How did yours break? I love the design too!

 

[bewitched]

Good for the dump! If you take a stroll here in town there is avery good chance you can spot a margherita ariston near a trash can. A friend of mine saw his neighbour rushing its three years old margherita near the trash can and when the owner left he rescued it for me! it had the drum completely stuck! you could not move it at all! it turned out the gasket around the drum hole
apparently grew in size and completely blocked the drum movement. I decided to give it a chance and I replaced the door seal with an original spare part. After that I tested it for a while. It not only wasn't able to get rid of common stains, it banged loudly and moved like it was haunted when spinning. I also tried the famous cachemire cycle! Fantastic if you have to quickly whip up cream! I ended up giving it to a friend who after only two weeks got rid of the damn thing!
One day he came home and found the machine sitting on a side!!!
The drum was again stuck and he decided to quickly discard it!
Not bad for a three years old machine, uh?

 

[zodawash]

Ariston

Hooverkeymatic- mine didn't break I just sold it on because I had an LG instead

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Does anyone have anymore pics of them because i dont have many of them?

 

[zanussi_lover]

powerstream

i'm pretty sure i've seen an ariston video on youtube that has the powerstream wash action, like the hotpoint WMA series.

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Yes.It is the Digital Model.It tumbles very slowly for some reason!My mams friend only ever uses Daily Wash or Delicates.

 

[zodawash]

Powerstream

Yes my Arison had the powerstream wash action I had the A1535 model in 2004. It had 3 different wash rythems during the wash plus of course the wool wash with the long one way distribution wash seen on Hotpoints.

 

[favorit]

badge ?

Hey guys,
do you still have the separate 2 badges there ?
Here now is all double badged Ariston-Hotpoint instead of Ariston.

Marco, I guessed Ariston were slightly better than Indesit, Candy and Whirlpool, as the Margherita have double hinged doors (indesit have just one hinge).

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Ariston is only sold through a shop called Curry's here.Nobody else sells it.Nearly everyone sells Hotpoint and Indesit.

 

[bertrum]

total rubbish, flimsy Indesit electronics, hang on, whats that dial doing its moving on its own, oh just another stupid fault code. Start counting the flashing led's to work it out!

Wheres the dump?...

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Betrum - lol

 

[ronhic]

Harvey Norman and Domayne

...have an exclusive deal to sell Ariston in Oz. So even though they are here at least not every retailer can get hold of them....

Thankfully!

 

[robliverpool]

my friend had one and within 9 months the board was replaced 4 times as it kept burning out after 13 months the bearings failed and it got dumped waste of £330

 

[hoovermatic]

Well I lived in a shared house some years ago that had an Ariston and it was a real workhorse. It had been there 4 years when I arrived and lasted a further 7 years. As you can imagine it was thoroughly abused by the many tenants and never broke down. Washed and rinsed well. Like wise the Candy BOL dishwasher which was put in at the same time (about 1997) and is STILL in daily use and the only thing wrong with it is the detergent dispenser is bust so you have to put the powder on the door.

 

[ronhic]

You can get good and bad with every brand....

BUT, going from the Choice reliability ratings, Ariston is at the bottom of the ladder with well over 30% of respondants reporting faults in the previous 12months....

I wouldn't have one if you gave it to me....

 

[hooverkeymatic]

I didnt realise Ariston were that bad!My Mams friend has the A1435 model.It spins at a maximum of 1400rpm.

 

[hotpoint9534]

Indesit should be ashamed of the quality of electronics they fit to these machines. As Bertrum says, they are absolutely apalling. They have just about the highest failure rate of any machine, even higher than Servis possibly?! Just looking at the machine in the wrong way can cause the electronics to fall over.

There should be some kind of minimum standard these things are built to. It's all very well having 'A' rated cycles but if they are only going to last a couple of years before scrapping, the environmental cost of producing the machines in the first place is shocking. It's far more environmentally friendly to get a 'D' rated machine that'll last 20 years in that respect.

Someone will be telling me how good 'Haier' is next.

Tom.

 

[robliverpool]

TOM

ha ha i like that one mate, HAIER they are a joke i had one which was replaced 4 days later washed once never worked again and the replacement laste just under 20 minutes. NEVER again, would have a scrub board and mangle before i had a haier, ariston/creda/hotpoint/indesit again lol

 

[hooverkeymatic]

We have a new hotpoint Aquarius and it is better than expected.I was expecting the paddles to fall of when you looked at them or someting lol.

 

[paulinroyton]

Haier

Well your gonna laugh at this. My Hotpoint Aqualtis has now broke down, Hotpoint quoted me it would cost over £200 to repair. At moment money is tight, so I bought a Haier.

Up to know it seems to be ok. You can set a load level, and on full load it has deep rinses on cotton cycle.

Will let you all know if it does break down, lol.

Regards

Paul

 

[bertrum]

Hi Paul,

You said you will let us know 'IF' it breaks down, you should have said 'WHEN' it breaks down.
Trust me it will!

good luck mate.

 

[bertrum]

Haeir make Indesit look reliable!.