Indesit IWC125

[Rowland Mitchell]

MY Indesit , IWC125 Yesterday My Machine worked Perfectly But today when I Plugged it in to the Mains I filled it up with dirty Clothes as  I Plugged it in all the Lights Came on but within 7 seconds the Lights went out: The Main Trip clicked off all the Electricity to the House so I reset the Fuse Box and tried to switch the Machine Back on: the Same thing Happened again where it Cut out at the Main Box again: It was what one would call a Direct Short where all the Power to the House went off I'd reset the Trip switch But the Machine this time Did not even light up when I switched it back on again where the lights did not come on the Trip switch Blew the Fuse.I'm lost to Know what to do. Has anyone else Had this problem: I Tried to get a Repair Guy out but the Cheapest was £114 call out where I'd have to pay extra for Parts 

[Whitegoodshelp (Andy)]

You need an engineer to trace the cause of a washing machine tripping the electrics

Sadly it seems the days of repairing washing machines are almost at an end after a long slow decline over the last 25 years. The only hope you would have is finding a local engineer but there aren't too many left. Most of the online repair companies are run by big money people who pass the work onto 3rd party engineers and take a big cut. Most of the big repair people and even manufacturers operate insurance based repairs where the minimum repair charge is over £100 and sometimes a lot over £100. They offer to guarantee the whole machine for a year but basically they are just charging you to take an insurance out on top of the repair. The fixed repair companies can only operate by charging everyone a lot of money even for a minor repair. Again, most will quote over £100 and that's even if it turns out to be a 5 minute job. It's a great shame but it's been driven by declining prices of new appliances and increasing prices of labour and spare parts.