I Have a Hotpoint WD860P washer dryer and I have to replace the door seal but for some kind of reason I can't get the top of the machine to get the old door seal out...are there any screws in the fron tbit?

Hi there,

First of all remove the door from the machine by unscrewing the screws on the hinge than remove clip at the top of door seal, when it unclips remove metal band, pull front of door seal off of front panel, Pick up metal bracket. Now with the hinge attached to door hold in place and place bracket behind the two holes fit screws and then fit the seal and clip.

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the heat coil may be damaged. A few years ago I took apart my dryer and saw that the coil resistance wire (glows red when a current is passed thru it) was broken. I was able to buy the part and put it in and it worked after that. If I had to do it again, I'd just call a repair guy.

Tilt the washer back, and you will be able to retrieve the back plate from the bottom of the washer.
To refit it, you will have remove the front of the door seal from the cabinet front.

No need to remove seal.
Remove top cover, undo 2 screws securing door lock. and reach down inside the washer to access the door lock.. This is the easy to do it.

First switch off electrics , Remove door interlock , leave wires on .remove soap dispenser,remove front panel with controls 3 screws top of machine 3 screws bottom remove front casing you can now see door boot. remove sring note how boot came off refit is oposit to this noting top / bottom of seal ..Hope this some help-

the door seal are hard to do just take a good look at it befor you take it off you can take the frount panel off the washer to do this job give your self a few hrs so you dont rush

the usual problem with tripping is the heater of the dryer box has become loose and touching an earth.
if you take the lid off you will see the box on top of the drum.
with the electric off you can look for loose/disconnected wires and wiggle the 2 metal tabs that are the ends of the heater, should not move.
you may be better with an engineer visit if it's not an obvious fault.

It is quite involved to change the seal, as requires a partial strip down, if the hole is not very big, then you can do a fairly good repair using a bicycle punture repair kit..
Remove the plastic clip that holds the clamp ring on the front of the washer seal at the top, remove the clamp ring, take note how it is fitted, then pull seal off front of washer, and fit patch on underside of seal, refit seal and clamp,and job done!!!!
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Hi, This is a very simple and straight forward job. First turn off the washing machine and remove the plug from the wall and earth the plug on the cabinet of the machine to remove any residule current in the machine. Remove the top of the machine with the screws at the rear of the machine. You can now look in the top? Open the door and take off outer door seal clip ( look and you will see how ) If it is a plastic clip it will have a small cut out in the side for a small screwdriver to be put in a pushed open. It could even be a small spring that is laying in side the small lip of the door seal. You could now attempt the removal of the door seal if you can see the inner clamp to get a long screwdriver onto the screw! If not now remove the soap drawer. Remove screws from around the soap drawer and slide the facia to the right and it should all be off.. Then you can remove the three screws that hold the front on along the top and the same along the bottom edge of the front panel. This then will allow you to take off the front panel and have better access to the door seal. Then once you have replaced the door seal you just need to replace as you took off..
Good luck................

watch the drawer closely as it fills, on out side of machine it might be hard to see or else small hole in door seal also hard to find good luck luck close ire