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My Hotpoint 71340 is stopping in midcycle (cycle no 3). I've cleaned the filters (they needed it!), and filled up with salt, and removed the door cover to look at the programme knob. What should I try now?

Thanks.

I'm not familiar with the model at all but often stopping during the cycle would be a heater problem of some sort. You can easily check the heater for continuity with a meter, once you get to it.

K.

Thanks (and sorry for the delay), but I don't think it is the heater. The machine seemed to be heating OK in the part of the cycle it performed.

I gave up on trying to diagnose the fault myself and called in a service engineer — but by that time the machine had begun to work again and to complete its cycle! He said, from my description of the symptoms and of the point in the cycle where it had been stopping, that it seemed to be an inlet valve sticking. If it happened again, he said, I should listen for a faint hum from behind the kickboard, and that would be the valve sticking where the water is trying to re-enter. I could try getting a new inlet valve from the internet.

This is where I come back to the forum. There are several internet sites with many parts for the 71340, but nothing which I can recognise as an "inlet value". Probably it is called something different. Can anyone point me to it?

Thanks again.

giomach wrote:Can anyone point me to it?

Certainly can, HERE IT IS...!!!

Not cheap mind you and a costly error if that isn't the fault. But from my experience and from where I'm sitting I would think its 95% certain to be the case.

Thanks for identifying the part, Martin.

I made an interesting discovery in the meantime. When the machine is stopped with the inlet valve stuck, all I have to do is turn on the nearby cold tap in the kitchen, and the dishwasher will continue its cycle! Presumably there is a connection with the fact that we changed to a pressure water system about 2 months ago.