Buying Advice

My wife and I are looking for a new washing machine, we have an ailing 7 yr old cheapy Zanussi which apart from nicking the odd item and poor door closure sensor is still going fine. Repairing the door would be ok but it put a hole in a new top so the wife wants rid.

its 6kg drum is also tiny, and with a new addition to the family we would like a larger drum, the wife now agrees that drum size over kg rating but finding decent sized drums excludes a lot of the machines out there. Also like the miele comb copy drums, especially as ours is nibbling clothes.

I would have an ise but its too much for us and there are no specs on drum sizes so he wife has used her veto lol. We went round curries and I liked the look of the aeg L87680FL, drum was large, door opened nearly 180 degrees and looks ok. Steam mode for all my work Shirts seems quite nice but doubt we will use it much. Unless it really is ok for dry clean garments in which case it might be very handy.

is the aeg a Decent machine , I Have read the thread on the great con and don't expect a 20yr machine but honest opinions and recomendations welcome before we take the plunge. It comes with 5 years cover which seems a good sign or at least some confidence on thier part.

2 adults, 1 baby (touch wood)
average loads atm but expect 6 a week
dryer not required or wanted
no water meter here
cold feed
600mm wide
no skin allergies
would like countdown to program end.

AEG is, basically, a Zanussi in a dress, same basic internals as both brands are owned by Electrolux.

I shouldn't get too hung up on drum sizes, this explains why:

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buyi ... sizes.html

But do remember that what's claimed as a drum size isn't always the whole truth. They are allowed to use the full door opening to test, without the door closed and once the door is shut you can loose heaps of space depending on the design.

HTH

K.

thanks for a quick reply,

we have an electrolux dish washer that's quite nice (wasn't cheap) so that's not a killer, if it was paired with indiset then that would have been. If it uses the same internals how come they offer more waranty over he zanussi models, is it simply down to higher insurance offset loaded into the price?

I have been physically measuring the drums, but not thought about the door ingress but will have to check that out as can see how that could cut down on usable space drastically.

ours atm gets probably 3 chock full loads a week, so the economy side would probably not be an issue as we do wait and do full loads atm,

out of the "disposable" brands do any actually offer some level build quality and wash quality.

Electrolux are one of the better mid range machines but I personally have my doubts about the money they ask for machines with an AEG badge stuck on the front. And, in a lot of cases, that's all it is but with a premium loading. Could be that covers the extra warranty costs, I really don't know how they work it.

None of the "disposable" brands offer much. Most are poor quality and poor performance from why I've seen. There is really no way with washing machines that cheap and good go together in the same sentence. But, that of course depends on your definition of what cheap is.

K.

I was just checking back thinking I really should have put a budget or cost indication. I think the aeg was just over £600 which is really our limit. I am really supprised our £250 zanussi has lasted as long and as well as it has but its not really been put under much stain with just two young professionals and no kids, this will change and so must the machine.

knowing the cost of my parents old washing machines and the cost of the ise and miele's 600 is a "cheap" machine, but am hoping to get something that has been designed more than cost engineered but I think its a tall ask.

turk3y wrote:knowing the cost of my parents old washing machines and the cost of the ise and miele's 600 is a "cheap" machine, but am hoping to get something that has been designed more than cost engineered but I think its a tall ask.

These days, it is I'm afraid.

I tried to explain it, as best I could, here:

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buyi ... -cost.html

It never ceases to amaze me that people very often wash clothes in one cycle worth more than the washing machine they wash them in and yet expect so much more from the washing machine than the clothes they wash in it. Again and again, hundreds of times over the life of the machine.

K.