Washing Machines - What to Look for?

Avoid like the plague the following.

Hoover / Candy
Indesit
Beko
Curry or Comet own brand.

Miele are over priced, you would be shocked at the mark up on them.

Honest advice buy and LG with direct drive.
 
Avoid like the plague the following.

Hoover / Candy
Indesit
Beko
Curry or Comet own brand.

Miele are over priced, you would be shocked at the mark up on them.

Honest advice buy and LG with direct drive.

I'm surprised you've missed other major named products out since they are made with the exact same parts as one you've already mentioned.
 
My mum's had a Beko washer for years and we just got rid of a Hotpoint that my OH's parents had for about 10 years before we got it, been working fine for another 3 years at our house.

Our fridge is Indesit and is great.

Think there's a lot of brand snobbery about - "I must have Bosch or Miele products which cost £1 gazillion otherwise I'm less of a person."
 
My mum's had a Beko washer for years and we just got rid of a Hotpoint that my OH's parents had for about 10 years before we got it, been working fine for another 3 years at our house.

Our fridge is Indesit and is great.

Think there's a lot of brand snobbery about - "I must have Bosch or Miele products which cost £1 gazillion otherwise I'm less of a person."

It isn't brand snobbery certain brands are dire.
 
OK, well that's fair enough, if you repair a lot you probably know more than me.

Just seems that whenever people ask for advice on these sorts of things, says for example, "I have a budget of £300", then straight away people are going "Oh no, don't go for a **** cheap brand, splash out another £600 and buy an expensive German one instead!" which to a lot of people is just totally out of budget.

Anyway, I'm probably just chatting beans now so I'm going to bow out there.
 
My mum's had a Beko washer for years and we just got rid of a Hotpoint that my OH's parents had for about 10 years before we got it, been working fine for another 3 years at our house.

Our fridge is Indesit and is great.

Think there's a lot of brand snobbery about - "I must have Bosch or Miele products which cost £1 gazillion otherwise I'm less of a person."

So your Hotpoint was made around 1999 which would have been made in Wales at the Hotpoint factory.
These were excellent products up until around 2004/2005 when Indesit took over (in 2002) but started to source the cheapest crappest parts they could find.

Fridges are a different beast apparently and something I never had anything to do with in 27 years of lab testing.
I was told (don't know how true) that virtually all makes/models of fridges have the same internal parts made by the same source so the only thing the company makes is the box it goes in to.

There isn't snobbery, it is a fact that certain products have more callouts than others and any domestic appliance 'engineer' will tell you the same thing and what gives them the best living.
I also sat through 1000s of quality meetings discussing the competitors who were a major threat to the Indesit Company and when the Italians first came it was just Bosch above Creda & Hotpoint products.
Miele wasn't considered because they weren't in the same price bracket.
Five years later I was sitting in meetings where Creda, Hotpoint, Ariston & Indesit were nearly at the bottom of the quality pile and now they are made in Poland they are at the bottom.
 
Just seems that whenever people ask for advice on these sorts of things, says for example, "I have a budget of £300", then straight away people are going "Oh no, don't go for a **** cheap brand, splash out another £600 and buy an expensive German one instead!" which to a lot of people is just totally out of budget.

No, I say Bosch which might be a tiny bit dearer.
 
I would be cautious of Bosch because they don't seem to make anything anymore.....

They tend to buy things in and rebrand them as their own, so trust in the brand name seems foolish. I know that's what they do for most of their products, not certain about the washing machines.

That said, I did just buy a Bosch car battery, but only because I know it is made by Varta, and Varta are good.
 
I would be cautious of Bosch because they don't seem to make anything anymore.....

They tend to buy things in and rebrand them as their own, so trust in the brand name seems foolish. I know that's what they do for most of their products, not certain about the washing machines.

That said, I did just buy a Bosch car battery, but only because I know it is made by Varta, and Varta are good.

However (and this is a big however) Bosch still keep their German quality ideals no matter what they put their name on and where it is built.
Perhaps things have changed now but I know for a fact that German quality technicians would keep a very close eye on their sources.
 
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