I recently needed to buy a new tumble dryer. After the horrendous service I’d received from Currys, there was no way I was going there again, so Comet it was. They had a Candy GOV58F vented tumble dryer at a reasonable price, so we bought it and I connected it up.

When we actually came to use it properly, it started but within a few seconds stopped and all the lights flashed. Nothing in the manual helped and it was the same whether we were using the sensor drying programmes or timed drying. So we rang the 24 hour service number which is only working from 9 to 5…

Eventually we spoke to them today: apparently when it’s cold, the sensor gets too cold and refuses to allow the dryer to run. It’s a known fault. And the remedy?

“Try using the dryer when it’s warmer.”

Like? When it’s not winter or when we’d be pegging things out on the line? Ah…

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