Funky Colour Hotpoint Aqualtis!

[samsungfl]

Quite A Hard Choice

Personally, i'd reccomend an AEG or Zanussi to be honest as there good value and the quality is there really. (im happy with mine so far.) lol or the new Hoover Vision which looks good, dont know much about it though lol

Richard

 

[dascot]

If you're happy with the Aqualtis aside from the strange water puzzle, why not ask them for a top of the range replacement, a 5 yr guarantee and some money back

 

[carlstock]

Sorry to put a dampener on things, but I would not touch any Hotpoint UK products any more. :-( Hotpoint always used to be our favourite, and we had no reason to go anywhere else.

We have two engineers coming round next week, and we are having the Hotpoint fridge taken away and seeking a refund. The other appliance, a Hotpoint dishwasher, is playing up, but we cannot get a refund on that because it was an insurance replacement.

Since Indesit (or Merloni, as it was called then) took over Hotpoint, they have *ruined* it. I do not wish to come across as nationalist or xenophobic, but long-standing British factories churning out pretty looking continental European rubbish is a disgrace. Miele, Bosch and Zanussi (Electrolux) can make decent products on the European mainland. Why can’t Indesit? There is no excuse for it. The Hotpoint brand in the UK has been completely dumbed down.

We still have a Hotpoint WD860 sitting in the hall, waiting to be collected. It has completely failed. We could not wait for a refund, so we went ahead and purchased a Miele Premier 520, and we are simply waiting for this Hotpoint to be collected. Of course, it isn’t *really* a Hotpoint – it’s an Indesit made in a UK factory. Even the Hotpoint Aqualitis is just an Ariston Aqualitis.

I like the way the WD860 works, and I do quite like the styling of recent Hotpoint products. However, all of the fancy looks are worthless if behind the pretty panels there is nothing but unreliable electronics and mechanics.

I am sure there will be many of you without any problems with Hotpoint and Indesit products, but we have got nowhere, and the unreliability of their products is well known in the trade.

Sorry to sound so negative, and I hope I have not caused any offence.

 

[dascot]

Hotpoint have, in the last 10-15 years, always been a little hit or miss with reliability, but their big downturn came after they redesigned their machines to make the larger load capacity machines. The ones based round the older design were still not too bad. It's a shame that a company should fall down so much in such a short time, but there's time for them to bounce back.

I think with Hotpoint, you take your chances on whether you get a good or bad machine - some are good and don't go wrong, some are bad and you have no end of trouble.

 

[carlstock]

Thanks, dascot.

Hotpoint will not be able to improve if Indesit continue to source such unreliable parts. I just wish they would because it is nice to have a machine made in UK – daft in some ways, I know – but that will not happen in the current climate.

The Hotpoint UK factories can build so much better appliances. I just wish were allowed to.

 

[dascot]

I know what you mean Carl, it's similar to the way car manufacturing has gone in the UK. MG-Rover were hampered by out of date products and very poor management, while Honda, Toyota and Nissan are producing decent reliable products in their UK factories, and exporting them as well. I think Nissan certainly has one of the most productive factories in Europe at the plant at Washington.

I guess the point is that the product has nothing to do with it's country of origin and everything to do with the way the product has been designed, parts sourced and the management of the factory.

Dave