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“Hoover OPH 716 DF - an utter dog of a machine - do...”

written by Pierreg346 on 06/08/2015

I bought one of these machines from Appliances online some three years ago as my previous Hoover machine lasted a good 10 years with no problems whatsoever. Within 2 months it had a problem spinning out. I would put the odd garment or item of lingerie or sweater on a wool or handwash cycle and at the end of the wash the item was still soaking wet where the machine hadn't performed the final spin properly. I reported this to Hoover and they sent and engineer who just did a test wash cycle, declared the machine ok and went away. He did tell me that these machines were not built at the Hoover factory and are in fact manufactured by Candy!

Well I learned to live with the intermittent no spin problem by switching the machine to the manual drain, spin setting and eventually it would extract the water, however, today it decided to perform the final spin on the manual spin cycle and then blew a fuse. When I went into my kitchen to empty the machine, there was smoke coming out of the top at the back of the detergent drawer. I'm not going to pay for Hoover to come and fix something that was a dog for the last 3 years and will not be buying a Hoover washing machine again.