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cimoreneOh great, now the latch broke off of our washing machine! The latch is plastic and sticks out from the lid; I closed it too fast and the latch snapped off instead of latching. Note that you can't close the lid gently; you have to do it firmly or it doesn't latch at all, but obviously you don't have to do it THAT firmly. Well then!
The latch is part of a mechanism inside the lid - some kind of wheely thing -, all plastic, that is now broken (but can't be extracted easily nor glued together). This seems like really stupid design, especially because the latch that protrudes is quite small and skinny, sort of like a plastic bottle opener. The machine is about 10, 9 years old... maybe 8? We inherited it. Not under warranty. Our own beloved washing machine's in the basement because it wouldn't have fit through our bathroom door - although maybe if we took the door off completely? But our tenant uses it anyway, so we'd have to replace it if we moved it upstairs. Anyway, it seems you can replace the whole lid (going by official replacement parts) for 95 bucks (but that doesn't include the labor of the repairman who has to do it), but you can't replace a smaller bit than that.
I have always hated this washing machine and now I hate it even more. It won't start without the latch engaged.
(The dishwasher has been fine all week so far though.)
The latch is part of a mechanism inside the lid - some kind of wheely thing -, all plastic, that is now broken (but can't be extracted easily nor glued together). This seems like really stupid design, especially because the latch that protrudes is quite small and skinny, sort of like a plastic bottle opener. The machine is about 10, 9 years old... maybe 8? We inherited it. Not under warranty. Our own beloved washing machine's in the basement because it wouldn't have fit through our bathroom door - although maybe if we took the door off completely? But our tenant uses it anyway, so we'd have to replace it if we moved it upstairs. Anyway, it seems you can replace the whole lid (going by official replacement parts) for 95 bucks (but that doesn't include the labor of the repairman who has to do it), but you can't replace a smaller bit than that.
I have always hated this washing machine and now I hate it even more. It won't start without the latch engaged.
(The dishwasher has been fine all week so far though.)
