The machine tries to spin, it goes around abit and tries to accelerate but then comes to a halt. I noted that somebody else had had similar problems but it was not clear whether in their cases there was no spinning at all.

The behaviour resembles the situation where the load is not balanced. This is however not the case, I've tried several loads.

Any advice well appreciated

JK, Herts, April 2005

did you get to the bottom of the problem

jamie, September 2011

My machine stopped spinning, I checked to make sure the belt was ok and it was, called out a local repairman who came 2 days later, he switched it on and it started spinning! Baffled!

Gareth, April 2007

I have a hoover CA230-003 with similar problem, there was a crack on the module, paid a repairman a total of £55 for two visits to solder the break, then found out a new module is £37

George, April 2005

check the belt,and the carbons

aa, April 2005