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Lying washing machine!

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 09/05/2019 13:04

I've got a Samsung ecobubble machine, not had it long and still getting used to it.

I put a full load of cotton t-shirts, shirts and underwear on to wash at 12.30pm. I selected the cotton wash at 40 deg. The display said it was going to take 3 hours 10 mins. I thought "that's a bit much but never mind, I want it all to have a good long wash".

It's now 32 minutes since it started and the display says there's only 47 minutes left to run. So that's more like 1 and a quarter hours instead of 3 hours!

Why? Why even have a display in the first place?

OP posts:

LightDrizzle · 09/05/2019 13:56

I’ve got one in the U.K. and one in Portugal. Both are liars.

RattyTat · 09/05/2019 13:57

What's so terrible about the Ecobubble? I have one. It seems fine to me(Annoying tune asides)

Narya · 09/05/2019 13:59

The Samsung ecobubble weighs the load on some if the cycles including cottons. If you stay and watch after pressing go, it spins a couple of times in each direction then changes the cycle time on the display.
It's a bit of a pain if you use the delayed start, as it often ends up finishing early.

Kismett · 09/05/2019 14:00

On our old machine you could set a timed dry for half an hour, step away, and it would loudly proclaim it was done after about five minutes. With an alert that wouldn’t stop until you physically came to deal with it. And the clothes would somehow come out both wet and permanently creased.

I find laundry much more of a chore here than I ever did back in the US. It used to be a breeze! And we’ve been through three machines. I’m sure it’s better for the environment though.

RattyTat · 09/05/2019 14:01

Although now I recall that there are some double duvets that the Ecobubble won't wash when our previous machine, which was lower in capacity by one kilo, had no trouble with.

Fairylea · 09/05/2019 14:03

Our eco bubble was fine for the first couple of years and then all sorts of things started to go wrong - heating element errors, unable to drain properly despite cleaning out filter many times and even replacing drainage pipe and tube, water leaking from under front of machine etc. We had it fixed tons of times and something else would go wrong! Maybe I just had a crap one.

SplashPad · 09/05/2019 14:08

Marvellous! I have just bought a Samsung Ecobubble in part because people on here kept saying how great theirs was! Where were all you haters before?!

RattyTat · 09/05/2019 14:10

Interesting, thank you for the explanation. I've had mine for three years, no problems so far but no doubt there will be now that I've mentioned it.

HeyTodayIsTheDay · 09/05/2019 14:11

My Hoover does that. I have given up on trying to understand it.

Sexnotgender · 09/05/2019 14:12

Where were all you haters before?!

In their kitchen waiting for the lying bastard to finish?

MiniMum97 · 09/05/2019 14:13

The machine will adjust the time after it's been weighed.

MiniMum97 · 09/05/2019 14:13

The washing that it not the machine!!

It should also adjust he amount of water depending on the volume of the clothes.

DontCallMeShitley · 09/05/2019 14:16

Join up here for the Samsung Ecobubble Hater Club

Can I join too please?

The first thing I did was find out how to turn off Schubert's Die Forelle at the end of the cycle. As follows:
Sound On/Off
You can turn on or off the key. ...
Activating/Deactivating the Sound On/Off Function.
Press the Power button to turn the washer on.
To activate the Sound Off function, hold down the Rinse and Spin buttons simultaneously for 3 seconds.
The Sound Off icon will be illuminated when the function is turned on.

Then I discovered the machine was a heap of crap which the engineers couldn't fix and it was gone within a week and replaced with a Bosch which I didn't want but was the only other option in the size drum I wanted from the company I wanted to buy it from.

Shamalamalam · 09/05/2019 14:35

Mine lies too

I put a quick wash on at about 11pm one night and sat up waiting for it - forgotten to put the kids uniform through and they needed it the next day

Should have taken 17 minutes, took nearly 45. I was not amused

MumOfTwoMasterOfNone · 09/05/2019 14:40

Pretty sure I was vocal about my hatred

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 09/05/2019 15:04

"Quick wash"

They lie to our faces. They feel no remorse. Surely MN must diagnose them as narcissists? The "quick wash" lie in particular is a red flag. I think I will get my ducks in a row...

TwinsTrollsandHunz · 09/05/2019 15:08

Mine (a Bosch) does the same. It’s because all these modern ones have sensors in them to maximise efficiency. It is a PITA though when you go to check on it last thing at night and it says ‘10 mins’, so you think, ‘fine, i’ll lock up etc and it’ll have finished before I go to bed’ and 25 minutes later the bloody thing STILL says ‘10 mins’

DappledThings · 09/05/2019 15:12

I have a Samsung EcoBubble too but I only ever use the 59 minute wash and that comes in at 59 minutes everytime.

Gingernaut · 09/05/2019 15:17

My Bosch does this.

The funniest is when I do an eco cotton with pre-wash and set it for drying as well. 11 hours.

The irritating one is when it tells me there's 2 minutes to go, so I wait around for it to finish.

It counts back and forth between 2, 3, 1, 5 and back to 2 minutes until 15 minutes later, it unlocks and starts beeping.

StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff · 09/05/2019 15:17

Ha! I'm actually quite pleased to read this because I thought it was just my stupid fucking Candy washing machine that does this! At least I know, I'd have the same problems with another machine!

steppemum · 09/05/2019 15:21

I have a samsung ecobubble and didn't even realise it, but all of you saying the annoying tune made me go and look.

I only ever use the Daily Wash cycle, using different temp. The 40 says it takes 1.03. and it actually takes ..... 1.03. Never changes time, never changes during the cycle, always finishes in 1.03 hours.

The door lock is locked for 1 minute after cycle ends.

Sorry, love mine, very easy, clothes clean, no silly 3 hour cycles here.

Choccyp1g · 09/05/2019 15:22

Has anyone ever found the "anti-crease" feature on the Ecobubble to do anything other than reduce the spin speed, thus creating a pile of very wet creased washing instead of the usual creased wet washing?

michaelbaubles · 09/05/2019 15:31

My Indesit once read 3 minutes. I went upstairs, bathed two children, read them stories and came down and it was still chugging away. I've never trusted it since.

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 09/05/2019 15:34

Well my Beko is 👼compared to some of these! It doesn't lie.

ChopinIn10Minuets · 09/05/2019 16:01

I've found my Ecobubble can go into a sort of feedback loop at the beginning of the spin cycle with heavy items that are unbalanced, so it refuses to spin at a proper speed and gets stuck at 9 mins. The way to fix this is to switch it off, turn it to some dummy rinse and spin cycle with the spin turned off, let it do its stuff and then rearrange the load or remove some items before you do the spin again.

I have also been known to lean heavily on the machine as it gets to fast spin. Unscientific, like bashing an old cathode ray telly, but it seems to work.

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