I just fixed my Hoover tumble dryer following answers on howtomendit.com and there were many people with the same problem on several Hoover and Candy tumble dryers over several years.

This suggests bad design or inappropriate components being used, and possibly still being used today.

As consumers, we need a site where we can report bad design or the many products which are designed to break, and where we can challenge manufacturers to produce products to last.

Does anyone know of a site which caters for this already?

DoubleDecker, November 2010

when you find out how much white goods cost to make you begin to wonder how they work at all.The price you pay in the shop has nothing to do with the product as most of the cost is mark up and good old VAT!.

Tim, November 2010