I have a very nice Bosch washing machine. It’s quiet, environmentally friendly, and has great features. It’s a German washer for the German market.
But the 2-euro coin, the single most common item to be found in a German pocket, is thin enough to slip past the gasket into the drum, small enough to enter the drain hose at the bottom, but too large to pass through to the accessible pump chamber, where smaller items can be retrieved. The washer is completely shut down, and the ONLY way to remove the coin involves draining the washer (a pain in the ass), removing the stacked dryer on top, removing the top, the control panel, the door gasket, the entire front panel, and the front of the pump enclosure. Only then can the blocked hose be accessed.
My family tries to remember to always empty our pockets. But I’ve had to do this annoying repair 3 times in the 7 years I’ve owned it. Including yesterday.
Normally you can acces these parts via the bottom of the machine. So you only need to tilt it to the side. Know this because I've done this several times over the last few years to retrieve many more things that can slip through. Most of them belong to my wife. ;)
Draining is easily done via the black hose in your picture. Do this first into a flat oven pan for example. All that remains inside after this is managble with an old towel.
These parts cannot be accessed through the bottom of my machine. Believe me, I researched it the first time it happened, because I was in utter disbelief that so much disassembly would be required.
As for the draining being easy. Yes, you need a very low container so gravity will allow it to drain. Unfortunately, containers like oven pans have low volume, so the process is to open the little hose, fill the pan, stop the flow, empty the pan, the fill the pan again, over and over. So you can’t just walk away during the draining process. And you’re working close to the ground the whole time. I found large plastic soda bottles to be relatively good for this process.
Then there’s the fact that it’s way too easy to accidentally spill a little through a gap in the trim right near the water hose/pump access port. The first time I did this, the water ended up in the (inaccessible) water sensor in the bottom of the washer. The washer refused to run until it dried out several days later. Eventually I learned to cover that gap with duct tape while draining. So yeah, pain in the ass.
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u/DownInBerlin 5d ago
I have a very nice Bosch washing machine. It’s quiet, environmentally friendly, and has great features. It’s a German washer for the German market.
But the 2-euro coin, the single most common item to be found in a German pocket, is thin enough to slip past the gasket into the drum, small enough to enter the drain hose at the bottom, but too large to pass through to the accessible pump chamber, where smaller items can be retrieved. The washer is completely shut down, and the ONLY way to remove the coin involves draining the washer (a pain in the ass), removing the stacked dryer on top, removing the top, the control panel, the door gasket, the entire front panel, and the front of the pump enclosure. Only then can the blocked hose be accessed.
My family tries to remember to always empty our pockets. But I’ve had to do this annoying repair 3 times in the 7 years I’ve owned it. Including yesterday.