Electrolux group out of balance machine

[aeg03]

This machine is very dangerous.

I have reported my AEG spinning like this when it is out of balance but I am just very lucky that because the AEG is so heavy the machine has never jumped up like that. It has moved once but nothing like this machine.

 

[hotpoint9534]

That would never have happened on a 1980s Electrolux with decent springs and friction dampers.

What is wrong with the out of balance protection on that machine?

 

[favorit]

There's a IrishMark's post in the Imperial forum ...

... with a shot that tells more than any word :

In the last 10 years Electrolux had to face increasing costs : Germany and Italy are the countries with the highest labour costs, so they outsourced a lot of parts from far East and Eastern Europe .... with such results. Frontloaders made in the Nurenberg AEG factory were said to cause to Electrolux a 60 € loss per each item produced. So in 2007 they shut that plant and moved the production to Zanussi works (BOL DW and FL in Poland, MOL TOL frontloaders in Porcia-Pordenone,**whatever brand** MOL TOL dishwashers in Solaro-Milan) with not so enthusiastic results .... Since january the plant in Solaro changed production approach : instead of mass production they switched to lean manufacturing (read here about latest AEG dishwahers made in that same plant ) . Last week I spoke with a salesman. He told me finally Zanussi has gone back to two pumps dishwashers and AEG has gone back to install pumps on shock adsorbers. We will see .........

 

[ronhic]

Yeah.....

....well my machine is the model before that one and even with worn shocks never, EVER did that....

Interesting thing is that we don't get to see what is actually in the machine.....maybe a brick wrapped in a bathmat?

 

[fl1012]

Im shocked.......

that a model of that generation leaped about like that. Id imagine it's got a fault that has developed over time.

Our Electrolux from 2000, which looked very similar to the Tricity Bendix below, used to jump quite violently on occasion, but its replacement, a 2007 Zanussi Essential, which i thought had the same internal parts as the machine in the video, very rarely leaps on spin. Occasionally i'll find it's moved round at an angle when its finished, but its a once a month occurance rather than once a day like the old Electrolux.

Interestingly our machines have both been in similar setups to the machine in the video, with no cupboards either side. Id imagine this doesn't help matters.

With the current Zanussi i think it'd probably stay still if it was in between cupboards, but it'd probably take alot more than that to have stopped our Electrolux!

 

[ronhic]

Ok...

....well if you turn the sound up...

Right at the very beginning, just before it goes to spin, you can see the drum 'rock' left and right AND hear the light 'knocking' or 'tung tung tung' noise....

....I'll bet my you-know-whats that there is a completely bung suspension strut in that machine....possibly both...or one of them has sheered its' connection to the drum/base....

 

[logixx]

Ditto on the broken suspension.

Our E-Lux from 2006 will also vibrate a bit when the load is not balanced too well - it'll still spin at 1400 rpm no matter what - but it never moves a bit. It's on tiles over concrete.

 

[hotpoint9534]

Electrolux should have stuck with friction dampers like on pre 1990 machines, they never seemed to go wrong.