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Hi, I’m Helen from eSpares. I’m here in the eSpares kitchen to fix our broken dishwasher.
Now we’ve got a fairly new Smeg dishwasher but the handle has been broken due to it being
pulled too hard. The inner part of the handle has broken off and fallen down into the door
somewhere. So this is what the inner part of the handle looks like and I’m going to
show you how to replace it. While I’m here I’m going to replace the door interlock.
Because if you’ve got a problem opening or closing your dishwasher door it could be
due to this. Before you order any parts be sure to get all of the appliance details.
On a dishwasher these can normally be found round the edge of the door somewhere. And
before you start any work always switch off at the mains first. To begin this job I need
to remove the control panel from the inner part of the door. To do this I want to remove
the screws around the upper part of the door but I want to leave these two as they hold
the interlock on.
Now I’m using a torx head screwdriver and a set of bits are available on the eSpares
website.
And now I can separate the control panel from the inner part of the door. I don’t know
whether you can see here but the handle has completely come away from the machine. The
two edges have entirely snapped off. So I’m just going to slot the new handle in. And
it slots in pretty easily, just like so.
Now while I’m here I’m also going to replace the door lock. When replacing a part like
a door interlock that connects to a control panel via wires you need to be very careful
that you wire the replacement part exactly the same way the old part. Now my problem
here is that these to wires are pretty much identical so I’m going to use a small sticker
so I can identify which is which, like so. Now I just need to remove the wires and then
unscrew these two screws that we left earlier. And now I need to screw in the new interlock
and connect it up in exactly the same way.
And now I just need to put the door back together.
There we go, the eSpares kitchen now has a working door handle. Spares and accessories
for most makes of dishwasher can be found on the eSpares website.
Thanks for watching.