how do you fit a new belt on a hotpoint tumble dryer?

We have just fixed ours........ yey. Right, depending on the tumble dryer you need to have a look from the front or back to see which side you need to fit it. We had to take the front off ours. We could not completely remove the front panel, but we managed to do it with it half off.
You need to make sure you get the right belt.... they are cheaper online but if you can't find the correct model number you need to go to a repair shop with the old belt to make sure you get the right one.
Fitting our belt was difficult.... they are REALLY tight. You need to make sure that it is the right way round. Ours went over the drum and through a guide at the bottom so it took two of us to fit it. We had to stretch the belt a bit first (be careful not to do it too much because it will be too loose). Then it took loads of strenghth (from my boyfriend) to hook it on and fix it into the guides. Hey presto...... working dryer. This was well worth doing because it would have been cheaper to buy another dryer than get an engineer out. It cost us £15 for the new belt and took about 45 mins. We could have got the belt cheaper online but I wanted to make sure we got the right one so I got it from a shop. Good Luck!

Sarah
December 2008

You have to take the front panel of the machine off. This is done by removing the lid and behind the control panel their are plastic posts with metal clips around them. use a small drill and a hammer and gentle tap the centre plastic posts this will will push the control panel off Behind the panel is 3 screws undo those and the whole front panel including door off comes off exposing the whole drum. this is as far as i have got at the moment. The rest is down to you!

martyn
December 2004

See http://www.applianceaid.com/images/belt-config.JPG

Pete
June 2004