My AEG 74640

[newwave1]

mrboilwash,
sorry to hear you had a bad experience with your machine. i have to say im really pleased with mine. do you have a miele instead now then?

 

[mrboilwash]

Yes I do have a Miele instead of the AEG and I love it.
Differently from the AEG 74640 it realizes the loadsize and shortens the wash, rinse and even the spincyle dramatically for small loads. I also fancy the rinseperfomance much better than the AEGs because the number of rinses does not change, when I use a quickwashprogramm.
I also hated the recirculation pump of the AEG because of hygienic reasons. The Miele showers the gasket and the door with fresh clean water while the rinsefills. I like that.

 

[mrboilwash]

Oh I almost forgot....the out of balance control of the AEG was just brilliant. At this point it even beats the Miele.

 

[newwave1]

i have to agree on the out of balance sensor. its never given up a spin and has spun dramatically many a time. much better than my samsung which i thought i'd try n sold because it never did full spin and took about 6years to balance!

 

[lavamat_jon]

OOB sensors

Might be different on mine cos mine's a larger capacity model than Darren's, but I've found with my AEG 86741 that it takes 2 or 3 minutes to get into a spin sometimes and even when it is "balanced" it isn't that balanced anyway & still shakes somewhat; whereas the Miele is distributed evenly in 15 seconds I think, and mum's new Zanussi likewise, however after seeing Darren's 74640 spinning I think my AEG must havea more sensitive sensor!

Jon

 

[sparkcymru]

Your Samsung sounds like it had the same system as the LG Darren. The display countdown hung for about 6-9 minutes whilst it tried to balance the clothes out and it did that everytime it did a rinse spin so it added ages to a full program. My Miele just went into spin and was rock solid everytime. The Hoover Nexta was very good at balancing only having the odd go at rebalancing if it wasn't happy. My Candy and Ariston machines would rarely spin at 1500 though unless it was perfectly balanced, seemed to hold at about 1200 instead so 1500 was abit silly as it was once in a blue moon lol. Steve

 

[newwave1]

hey hey.
jon i think ur theorys probably true of you OOB sensor...it does seem a tad more sensitive than mine. my machine seems to not care too much. lol.

Steve. i couldnt stand the fact my samsung refused to spin. i think the only time it ever did full 1200rpm was when i ran it with nothing in it when i first got it!

im in the process of picking a new machine at a reasonable price for my brother. around the £300 mark give or take a little. might go abit higher if i get him on a payment plan through work.

lets have your opinions of reasonale machines for the price.and maybe a line as to why you think the machines are good! thanks! i'll be interested to see peoples views.

Darren

 

[lavamat_jon]

Darren - I think you know my answer already

*cough*Zanussi ZWF1437*cough*

Jon