Inside your washer are 2-3 electronic taps. (maybe more on higher spec machines)
These taps can control water input into your washer from the 1 source and divert it off to different parts.
1 tap will be connected to a tube that flushe's out your powder.
Another tap will connect to a tap that flush's out your conditioner.
Washing machines operate on a cycle thus:
30 cycle
1. Open tap that wash's out powder then fill to level 1.
2. Tumble a few times.
3. Open tap to fill to level 2.
4. Heat till reached 30 degrees.
5. Tumble for x minutes.
6. Drain.
7. Fill to level 1 from the same one that the powder came from.
8. Tumble
9. Fill from conditioner tap to level 1.
10. Tumble.
11. Fill tumble drain a few times to rinse.
12. Spin at low speed for a few minutes.
13. Spin at medium speed for a few minutes.
14. Spin at high speed for a minute or so.
Stop
At any point if the machine stops its waiting for order to go on. If the machine does not reach level one then it will stop at filling, if it cannot detect that the water has drained out it will stop. Knowing what point the machine has stopped will most of the time point to the faulty component.
On your machine it's likely going to be the cold fill valve that has jammed or become electrically faulty. They cost between £5 - £15. They are very reliable and you might be able to get a 2nd hand one from a washer reconditioner. There are 2 terminal connections for power and 2 screws holding it to the machine. Make sure you turn off the water and remove the water pipes from it using pliers or better expandable pliers. (i'm assuming you dont have the pump clips pliers).
Time to change 2 mins.
I should point out that the red one is the hot one and you can tell if that's faulty by selecting a cycle that would fill with only hot water such as a 60 deg or 90 deg, if it did not fill then it would be a busted fill valve.
I should also point out that there are other things that could be causing it but that's the first place that I would look.
HM (ex washer repair guy) Handy by name handy by nature
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Originally Posted by Tightscot
have you overloaded it maybe - bear in mind wet nappies will be heavier than dry ones... I think our machine has a cut out if you overload it so it won't spin out properly...
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This would be a 'out of balance detector' Some machines will stop the spin and perform a tumble cycle to re distribute the weight.
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Oh how do I change a filter did not know it had one
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On your machine there is a filter just before the pump on the inside. It's not easy to get to and will dump residue water all over the place to get to it. Its black and T shaped. Will probably contain the remnants of a bra underwire, and at least £2 in change.
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Originally Posted by Tech_Boy
Not 100% sure where on your machine this would be, but mostly the filter is on the front, at the bottom.
Make sure that the machine is not full of water when you take the filter out, or you will have a flood.
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Not on hotpoints or older hoovers.
Those trapdoors are on the likes of bendix, indesit, candy and zanussi.
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) It is usually the the heater contact that burns out tho not the spin/rinse
