Servis M6160W (EasiLogic 1600) Review

Overall Rating

It looks good.
When it works, it does a good job.

Mine broke down just months outside of the guarantee period.
There seems to be a minor bug in the software!
The timer forces you to select from a particular number of delay times, which sometimes doesn't quite suit.

I've had my Servis M6160W Easy Logic 1600 washing machine for just over a year now, and the other day I returned, and it had apparently just switched itself off mid-wash. I replaced the fuse in the plug. It wasn't that. So, I guess it's repair time. Unfortunately it's outside of it's 12 month warranty, so while I've probably still got a right to some assistance from Argos (from whom I bought it), legally speaking, it might be trickier than I hoped.

So, yes, it's probably fair to say, that it's mostly dreadful, or really wonderful products that end up with reviews on these sites. Most of us don't get around to mentioning products that are "just okay". Well, as you can probably tell, this isn't a review of a "really wonderful product"!

Originally, when it was delivered (Servis did the delivery on behalf of Argos), I can honestly say that Servis were absolutely rubbish. The first one they delivered had flooded my kitchen within a couple of hours. The replacement did arrive eventually, but I can't remember how many times they told me "It'll arrive tomorrow". So, certainly at the time, Servis didn't have it together delivery-wise. So, if you order one, and find it's them doing the delivering, you might have a memorable time of it!

During it's working life it's actually been fine. It totally managed that whole clothes washing thing. The only fault I could find with it, is that while it normally displayed "done" on it's LED screen at the end of a wash, what seems like a software bug results in it sometimes just displaying some number instead. But at that point the wash has actually been completed successfully, it's just not as obvious.

The timer isn't quite as flexible as it might be. You press the timer button to step through the available delay times, and then press the start button. I can't remember what the available times were (and my machine's just packed in, so I can't check), but you can select some delay times and not others. For example it might be possible to delay by 4 or 6 hours, but not 5.

Generally, it's a nice little machine, but if mine can break down in less than one and half years, then it doesn't say much for it's quality does it? So, I can't recommend it, just because I'm sure you'll need it to last a little bit longer than that. I might mention at this point that I'm a single guy who lives alone, so this machine has hardly been worked to death!

Members' Comments onphilthy's Review

• philthy on 13th Apr 2006

  Okay - time to do some serious backing down here! Ever find a switch that you never knew existed in your kitchen, which happens to control the power to your washing machine? Ever blame the washing machine when such a switch was in the "off" position, without you knowing? So, basically, what I'm saying is that machine didn't have a fault at all in the end, and is still working to this day, and that I've no big qualms with it at all. Sorry Servis! I'll stand by my statements about the delivery being traumatic, and the first one they delivered not working, and that the end of washing isn't always reported correctly on the LEDs but apart from that, it does exactly what it says on the tin. And it was probably pretty good value for money. Ooops.