Is this a bargain or what!

[newwave1]

The blomberg cost my brother £399.99 in 1999!! It was very good! It did full loads and span at 1500rpm on everyload as i say. It started billowing smoke when it died! lol! It had a few quirky features like the dial for the spin speed also controlled the delay timer! you turn the dial for spin and the outside of it for the delay time! & it had the progress indicator like a launderette machine! My bosch does the same thing except its a dial with the intergrated delay timer before the cycle progress.

Servis machines needed to up there game. Though now it seems to late for them with the current admin problems. I have an orginal servis before they were taken over which is now 25years old. & i had a merloni servis which died within two years.

Beko to give them there credit seem to be better. My buddy has one. They have a 1year old little girl and expecting another, and it's not gone wrong! I got to see a cycle when i was round one after new, the tumbles were rather fun to watch, nice and long, the interm spins were long and the rinses used a nice amount of water! The motor was abit whiney though!

Darren

 

[dyson2drums]

yes the beko machines are quite loud as my cosin brother has got one 1400 spin and 6kg. it cost him £250.

I had a servis m6115 1100spin and 5kg, it lasted approx. 6 months which was appawling and broke down four times and finally the module blew and they took it away and the hotpoint aquarius came wma58.

 

[newwave1]

Did you hate your servis as much as i hated mine? lol. I had a gem 800. The only thing i liked about it was the fast anti clocwise distributions! I liked the wash action when it was jam packed as small loads just bobbled along the surface of the drum and it drove me nuts!

 

[dyson2drums]

yes i hated everything about it and the spin was not efficient as the 1100 left clothes wet and when we wring the clothes by hand water would come out!

yes the drum paddles were very un useful due to them being very short in height and they didn't even shower the clothes hotpoint paddles because the holes were at the side!

I used it on my own for 6 weeks when my mother went to visit family abroad so my gran or my neighbour did ironing but i did washing and many times the whites weren't whites although i put them on 60oc and only whites with whites!
So my gran had a hoover logic 1200 (old but good) and she did many of the washes in there coz it washed better!

 

[ronhic]

Servis

We had a Servis in a rental mainsonette when I first went to live in London in 2001. It was truely revolting. I know the machine was new, but I would have put pretty much anything up against it - even a bucket and plank of wood...

 

[newwave1]

Lmao! ronhic- have to agree. Plank of wood wins hands down!!

Darren

 

[dyson2drums]

yes that's so true ronhic and darren coz the clothes were wetter than handwashing after 1100rpm in servis and it took an awful lot of time!

washing by hand was better i'd say! But then the hotpoint aquarius wma58 came to the rescue to help us with great washing performance with powerstream and 1400 spin which was great and quick wash times an all! 1 hour 2o minutes for cottons 50oc with time saver! And now the hotpoint is given to aunt who needed a washer and i've got the dyson which is working great again, i think the wire on the unbalanced sensor got loose so it always thought it was balanced! Now it's fine!

 

[ronhic]

Ariston

What is it with Ariston (hotpoint)?

They have one of the worst reputations here for expensive repairs and breakdowns...

We can only buy them from two related retailers for more money than a basic (Thai built) Bosch and at least 50% more than a Electrolux (British Zanussi but most are built in Asia) for the same features.

 

[favorit]

British Zanussi ???

.... ok, greetings from Aosta Valley,Scotland *LOL*

...but you'll have to own even our fake prince/future king Emmanuel Filibert Savoy. As we turned to republic in 1946, his dad and him are ... jobless.
Now he's about to appear on TV @ the IT version of "Strictly come dancing" (and this isn't a joke).

@ Darren : congrats 4 your son !!!
About Bosch : your "new" one is of a far better quality than the 8 kg Logixx. I've read on the german forum these have some issues with bearings.
I suspect this is the why Miele doesn't sell the 4800 serie here in EU : they are afraid of loose some brand value with those machines that surely aren't tank-built as their standard and commercial ones.

Just about big mieles : thaks to our cat, last week I'd the chance to try a big Miele at a launderette. Here in IT launderettes are rare ... running into a "mieled" one is even rarer. I washed some huge pillows in the 13 kg PW6131. Aside there was a little giant (6,5 kg) PW6065 : it is really noiseless until it ramps up to 1400 rpm !! Even the machine with my pillows was quite silent while spinning @ 1100 rpm, despite the fact it was overloaded in the typical launderette customer way

 

[newwave1]

Hey mr favorit!

thank you for the congratulations! My bosch is amazing. I just wonder how long it will carry on for as the pump keeps sticking now and again and parts are expensive. If it dies i will have to find another beauty on ebay Though i do like the logixx models. I know they are nowhere near the quality of the WFF models!

I think if miele know the model they haven't put out isn't normal standard, they shouldn't bother at all they know better than that ;-)

Darren