One of my dream machines - I have been after one for a long time. They come up on Ebay quite often but are either in less than good condition or so far away as to make it completely impratical. This one appeared in Cheltenham and looked to be in good nick and it certainly is! Picked it up for £36.00. I had been looking for a Hoover Electron/Logic or something of that ilk but had no luck whatsoever. The Bosch is only 5kg load but big enough for me. The front fill is excellent - never had a machine that did that before - and the range of programmes is interesting - 15 degree washes on delicates or wool, soak, starching, short wash, rinse hold, anti crease tumbles after the final spin as well as variable spin control and something called IVS on the spin which I am told by Boschlover1997, is a series of spins of increasing speed up to the maximum allowed for the programme. Not sure what it is to be used for but will soon experiment! Water levels are also much more acceptable in my opinion - great rinses in particular. Made in Germany, like the proverbial tank. Am chuffed to bits to finally get one - so much so that I am even going to take some photographs and post on here! This is the first front loader I have had since 1999 and could have wished for a better one.