The machine stops and sounds an alarm when it is part way through its cycle (not completed the final rinse). If you complete rinse by hand and then try a few times to run it on spin it will eventually start spinning. The first couple of spin attempts its motor sounds (a groaning sound) but there is no motion. It's 5 years old, we're a hard water area and the machine has not been maintained in any way. (I can't move the large screwed in plastic thing in the bottom right hand corner).
When a machine stops during its rinse period, it is normally a block in your outlet filter. And you say it has not been maintained in any way for 5 years; at least you shd be doing the minimum maintainance like clearing your outlet filter.
Front bottom right, is where access to the filter normally is; get to it and clean out, plug off the wall first. The large plastic is to be turned anti-clockwise to remove, refit carefully after cleaning.
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My Bosch WFL 2680 stops part way through the rinse cycle. It will only carry on when I turn the switch to spin. I can't make the machine do the entire wash cycle uninterrupted, like jrw_barton.
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