Still oven problems

monkeysnapper

I've had my zanussi oven 5 years and I'm on my 3rd element , oven overheats and shuts down . I've just put in a new thermostat in and its made no difference . I'm gutted, I can't put any more money into this , I wish I hadn't done anything to it and just bought a new one.

When you put temp very low, like 50 it clicks and turns off but anything after that it just keeps heating till it shuts oven down .

Can someone please help me. It's driving me mad. As usual the wife was right. Just buy a new one. For once I just wanted to fix something.

Thanks

The Red Ace

if the oven is heating the stat has to open circuit on the rise of temp. unless it is faulty or wired incorrectly, live supply in to the single contact and lead to oven element and neon light on the double contact. if you have kinked the capillary it will not function

monkeysnapper

I had a brain wave today ( doesnt happen to often ) try the top oven, and surprise surprise , the top oven isn't working properly either, it doesn't stop heating either, this to me looks like a wiring problem somewhere.

I think unless I get help soon I'm going to just dump oven, take off my parts I bought and go out and buy a new oven . I'm just sick to death with it.

Billy Bunting

It's the Thermostat that controls the oven temperature, if its not shutting down the stats aren't being told to turn off, if its both stats then the issue is likely to be on the selector switch, what oven are we talking about ?

monkeysnapper

Billy Bunting wrote: »

It's the Thermostat that controls the oven temperature, if its not shutting down the stats aren't being told to turn off, if its both stats then the issue is likely to be on the selector switch, what oven are we talking about ?

A zanussi zdq695x ,

Thank you very much, I know there has to be a simple answer to this

Billy Bunting

This is the selector ....... http://www.espares.co.uk/product/es507783/cooker-selector-switch?SearchTerm=zanussi%20zdq695x%20selector%20switch

Depending on your DIY skills you should be able to trace the cable back from the elements through the stat to the selector switch.

monkeysnapper

Billy Bunting wrote: »

This is the selector ....... http://www.espares.co.uk/product/es507783/cooker-selector-switch?SearchTerm=zanussi%20zdq695x%20selector%20switch

Depending on your DIY skills you should be able to trace the cable back from the elements through the stat to the selector switch.

Again thank you for your help. You may have saved my day. Can I ask, if I buy that selector switch will it be a easy like for like in changing it. I saw a video on changing one on e spares youtube and it was.

You say trace cable back. Why do I need to do this.?

Can I just say I've only ever used fan oven , so when I still had problems after changing thermostat , for the 1 st time ever I tried to use other element in main oven to see if it worked for that and that element doesn't even work. And there's no signs of it gone. ( broken) is this further proof that its a selector switch.

Thank you again for your help .:)