my lass thinks that all machines should work flawlessly all the time regardless of how you treat them.
this means i have no greif on the washing front but allways have a mountain to climb when i have to fix her bike.
you could always wait till it packs up and get the wife a more reliable washing machine like this one
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3 daily washes
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Are you a member of the MF let's do loads of laundry club?
there was a great bit in the mag ages ago (or maybe a post on here)
some bloke whose wife got a repair man out to look at the machine & when she asked what was wrong, or why the repair was expensive or summit, he said "talk to your husband, he's ****ed it!" 😆
Not so much damage them but when the nice man came to fix our machine that wasn't emptying it was entirely down to the waste pipe being blocked with trail dirt from the clothes!! Took 3 years to get blocked though.
I hoped the grit would help remove limescale build up 🙂
I put muddy stuff in mine all the time, still going strong after two years (when I brought the flat, tho it wasn't new then, and probably cost all of 150 quid) I do tend to brush the rocks off it.
I'll say maybe; we've had three washing machiones during our 14 year marriage, the associated crap of washing MTB kit may have contributed to premature demise of these machines, although m;lud, engineers have never attributed a breakdown to what has been washed.
If I can be bothered I'll rinse my kit off before bunging it in the machine or I wang it in straight out of tug bucket before the misses notices, then just wipe door seals down and voila clean kit 🙂
just a pain in the arse you can't tumble dry most mtb gear 😥 so always draped over rads etc