this is a very big leak, its coming from the back of the machine, usually when the rinse cycle starts, there are plastic moulds at the back of the machine, some with thin black pipes going into them, this is where the leak is coming from, will i have to replace the whole plastic mould thing or just get a new machine?

tracy cuthill, April 2005

that plastic thing on the back is your condenser and its very common for them to fall off! make sure the machine is disconnected from the mains supply and then take the back off, you will see the condenser is connected down on the left near the bottom off the drum, it should be held in place by 3 7mm hex head self tapping screws and 3 sort of C shaped plastic brackets. further up on the right of the condenser should be another self tapper,this normally breaks off leaving part of the screw in the drum and its a pain to remove, if it has you will have to look for a top-hat shaped plastic washer that has probably dropped down into the bottom of the machine. At the top of the condenser where it joins to the heater box there should be two more self tappers one each side of the box, if the fixings for these have broken off from the condenser you will have to improvise somehow! Check there is a rectangular reddish rubber seal at the heater box end of the condenser and a large black "O" ring on the end that goes into the machine and screw it all back on

Geoff, June 2005