The Hotpoint WMA52 looks good. We have only had our machine for 1 year and it has caused us no end of problems. We have pulled the machine out and cleaned all the filters etc and it has made no difference. The cost of getting an engineer is so much that it is cheaper to get a new machine. Bad points are it has hard to access filters and stopped working after 1 year. I will be staying away from Hotpoint in the future.

The Hotpoint WMA52 was our first move into Hotpoint as we has been advised by an independent engineer they were the easiest to obtain parts for and cheapest to maintain. Previously we'd had a Zanussi for about 12 trouble free years and only changed it as we had an opportunity to do so and because of the age of it. Our Hotpoint is just over two years old and is now causing major problems. We cannot empty it and therefore none of the cycles will work as a result. Where on other machines we've had there' been an accessible filter to clean there isn't one on this and if that is the roblem it needs an engineer visit to sort out. Not impressed by this episode but overall it's been an OK machine. I would replace it with a Zanussi though. No doubt.