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quality disappeared when AEG/Electrolux began to produce machines with 30cm door diameter.

And "real" Asko machines is produced in Sweden, "unreal" Asko's, is produced in Finland or Italy, but those "unreal's" is only toploaders!
 
AEG

I had a 1600rpm model bought in 1998, lasted 3 years, then the drum bearings went. The machine was not cheap, something like £700-odd.

I currently have a Zanussi, and it seems okay just now (6 years old), but there is slight vertical movement of the drum within the tub. I'm just waiting for the day the bearings give up the ghost.
 
zanussi

what zanussi model do you have? me mum used to have a zanussi nexus loved it to pieces, think that lasted around 6 -7 yrs.
 
Jay! You shouldn't have too much trouble with your AEG, they're very nice machines. They're not there with Miele (I used to have an AEG and Miele set up side my side back in the good old days), but definitely an improvement over other manufacturers.

In terms of reliability I wouldn't worry too much - Electrolux have the second best washer design IMO to Miele and Maytasko on the British market, I always recommend to people who are buying a new washer to buy a Zanussi if they're spending anything between £200 to £400, and to splash out on a Miele if they're wanting to pay more. I must admit, though, that my AEG does have an electronic blip every now and then in that it won't tumble on just the 40*C cottons cycle when time save is selected, but apart from that I've had no issues at all. Although, compared to the Miele, the Miele seems to do the job much faster, more smoothly and more "professionally" whereas the cycles on the AEG teetered on the long side, for a modern machine you can't go wrong with an Elux machine if you don't want to go the Miele route. After all, I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying but Darren's mums is ALWAYS either on, or has laundry in there that's waiting there to be unloaded, when I'm round his, and his is still going strong 4 years later! I know several people with XC design Zanussi's that are getting on to a good age now which are used a lot which are still going - so I wouldn't worry.

Jon
 
Zanussi

It's normal to have a little vertical movement in the drum on Zanussi, AEG and Electrolux...
 
additional main wash water

hey peeps,

was wondering if ya could explain summit for me, during the linen/easy cares cycle, sometimes the washer will fill with more water just before the end of the main wash and sometimes it wont, i know on the models both my mum and nan have this happens everytime on the cottons and easycare cycles.

I know my model is supposed to have the turbity sensor and was wondering whether this has anything to do with it, also the water jet will sometimes stay permanatley on during the rinse cycles and other times it'll come on, then off, then on and so forth until the rinsing is complete.
 
hi
great washer
the idea behind adding more water i believe is to cool down the hot water thus to cool down the clothes and reduce the risk of shock creasing during the spin after the main wash.It would occur probably near the end of a 60* and above wash cycle and may not on a 40 or 30 degrees cycle.
Matt
 
thats what i would of thought, although it can do it on a 40, 50 or 60, havent seen it happen when washing towels though. mums and nans will always do it regardless or temperature. i always remember they were the first washer i'd seen that only does 2 rinses on a standard cycle. delicates, easy iron, fashion programmes will always do 3 but there are no intern spin between.
 
Jay - on my AEG, as the Cottons/Linens and Easy Cares is an automatic programme which will perform either a cottons or easy cares cycle depending on what it senses, it will change some of the programme stages depending on the load. If it detected it was an easy cares load, my 86741 would delete a rinse, wouldn't spin after the wash, only spin at 800rpm for a short time between rinses, and would add a cooling stage. Whereas if it detected it was a cottons load it would do the normal amount of rinses, spin at 800 after the wash, 1200 after rinse 1 and what sounded like 1400-1600 after rinse 2, and obviously the full 1600 after the final rinse.

I'm not sure if you can on your particular model, but on my AEG you can programme the machine to do the cooldown rinse at the end of cottons cycles - I always had this activated as I found it actually prevented suds locks in the wash spin. It would do this at any temperature, even at 20*C.

If you select the sensitive option this will also activate a cooldown cycle. I always thought of this very similar to the Easy Cares button on AEG machines of yesteryear - instead of a vigorous wash action it would tumble nice and gently, it would perform 5 rinses with no spins after the wash or rinse 1, and the rinses would vary between a high to a very high level (high being where the door glass is flat, very high being halfway up the window!).

I do miss the 86741 - was a very flexible, well performing machine. Doesn't do some things quite as good as a Miele, but some things better (I preferred the spin cycle on the AEG), and performance wise it comes pretty close. The only thing that really pissed me off about it was how if you selected time saver, my model would cut out the nice final spin, which wa sa burst, back to distribute, 1 min 800, back to distribute, then profiling up through 800/1000/1200/1400/1600 and maintaining 1600 for about 4 minutes - on time saver it would burst, distribute, and then just work its way up to 1600 as normal but only stayed at 1600 for a minute resulting in a 3 minute final spin which was alright for most clothes, but not for towels. Reliability wise is questionable, from what this thread shows, but as I've said before both Darren and I have had AEG machines from the same range in 2003/4 and have never had major problems.

Hope you enjoy the machine!

Jon
 
2nd vid

main wash,

hey jon, yeah it does have the sensor which i did wonder why it does different things.

 
My AEG Lavamat 78800 does a cool down at Easy Cares, Boil Wash, and at short wash cycles.
The Jet-System is always turned on at the short wash-cycles.
At Easy Cares and Boilwash not.
If I pushed Sensitiv ist always turns on off..on..off..
Donßt knwo why..
 
just another vid of the delicates 40, do the darks on this, love the high water levels.

your aeg looks just like me nans L74810 but that one doesnt have the jet. what was the model of the other pic? i know in germany u can get the lava logic with the 1800 spin, wonder if that'll come here.

 
The modell of the other Pic was a Privileg, an other german brand, but AEG, Privileg , Zanker get their machine by Electrolux.
Privileg is a bit cheaper.
The machine on the pic also has 1800 rpm.
 

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