My dishwasher fills with water and then nothing. It makes a strange ticking noise as though waiting for a call. When I advance the control knob still nothing. If I whizz the control round a few times then the pump will kick in and circulate the water and even empty the machine, but then it sticks again when it refills. Engineers told me that the water pump was at fault (bl**dy cowboys). After spending £70 and fitting a new one myself it still hasn't fixed the problem.

David, April 2005

I have a similar problem but it is freezing before any water is pumped in. As a quick fix I find that isolating the water supply then removing and purging the water hose before replacing and re-engaging the water fixes the problem. I think that there must be an airlock before the inlet pump and I am trying to identify the faulty part but it is not the pump itself.

NHarry, February 2008