Very clean video. I just brought same Kenwood model which is now 40 years old from my mother to repair. Replacing these capacitor should be the first thing I must try. Hopefully that should work.

Thanks so much for your excellent video! Another toaster saved from the dump... ;)

Excellent vlog thanks

hi, from Turkey. I have same problem (no heating) , Ressister , ntc ok but no burn soldering on pcb. Can the problem relay or programmer switch?

How did you take down the bundle of cables ? Thank you 🙂

Another question. Will this kit work for the 701a please?

Were the 2 new capacitors the same please?

Wouldn't it have been easier just to turn the machine on its side for access?

our IG 30 has lost some of its display , fingers crossed after 9 years its still working, luckly it was installed in the garage so is not being cooked to death in the loft, although it is making some lovely squelling noises under full load :/

Thank you sir i from india

From Seville, Spain. I have the same fault. Now I have to look for spare part. Thank you!

I have the same model number and the inside is completely different....I'm just going to throw it in the bin....!😂

To add to the other comments, thank you very much. I thought mine was faulty but I did not realize the right side slots had to be activated before the left.. d'oh!

Thank you for such an elaborate instructions, I followed that and managed to fix my Breville toaster. For mine it was the dirt and crumbs on the contacts when you bring the lever down, I cleaned that with sand paper as you mentioned and that did the trick. Thank you so much. Bless you!

Yep both caps popped was hoping not to change triac but guess it's for the best result

Great video.Fixing on a A901e model which has a PCB with more components though both caps exploded. The (e) must be another version. Let's hope just doing caps does the job on mine.gteat video sir

Great informative video, many thanks. Saved me £400 on a new machine, cheers.

Excellent video, thanks very much for making it so clear and well-narrated without any of the annoying music and hard-sell stuff that mars so many. I was on the point of dumping the old Kenwood but you've given me the confidence to grab some parts off Ebay and attempt a repair. 😃

Thank you 👍

Where can you buy the suspension please 🙏

Thank you! I spent a frustrating morning trying to figure out which durable toaster to replace ours with (had decided on a Dualit but can't really afford one), but then decided to try to fix our toaster again (this is the second time it's broken). Found this video, and it is fixed! Has made my morning - hate waste, love toast! Thank you.

Mine has a few broken wires, and nothing works. Would cutting all the wires and fitting them with bullet connectors work?

@twotone3070: While on vacation with my 2007 Alhambra I ran into exactly what you described. Driver window would not move at all (very handy with toll-booths, NOT) and all others would only go down. Luckily they could be moved up with their individual switches. So I ordered a new driver door switch which was waiting for me when we got home. However, you can guess, it behaved exactly the same. It took a lot of searching on the web before I found your excellent video. I would NEVER have been able to resolve the issue so quickly if I had not seen the video. What a design fault by VW/Ford that these wires could break so easily...... so in my car (which is left-hand drive by the way as I live in the Netherlands where we drive on the RIGHT side of the road, LOL) it was exactly the same wire. Same color coding. I fixed it also by extending the wire, like someone else mentioned in the comments. Somewhere in your replies I read you were disappointed by the number of views and likes. It is all about quality, not quantity and quality is what you provide here. I am utterly grateful that you took the time and effort to record this. It saved me a lot of time, troubleshooting, buying more parts that I do not need, frustrations etc. THANK YOU! Can I donate to the channel?

That's exactly what I did, I made a sleeve out of the old hollow plastic peg so the bolt fitted snugly in the larger hole.

Where did you get the kit?

Thank you for posting this; it was really helpful. I'm in the middle of rebuilding my Kenwood Chef A901 like the one in this video and decided to regrease the gearbox and give the machine a general overhaul at the same time. Gearbox - fine. Motor - fine. What has completely defeated me is reattaching the small squarish red lever (top front) by the pin at the top of the shaft of the lever and the spring above the plastic housing. Does anyone out there know if there a knack to getting the pin back into place? If the spring goes through the small hole in the middle of the lever shaft, to what does the other end attach?

My KM201 is later model but same issue - has a cct board and more components to control it, - a very simple speed control, not sure how it works. One cap shorted and burned and spit in half long ways. Will do the fix soon. Has 2 small blue caps also - prob tantalum - some say they can cause problems too?

How to use keema option please make video

Thanks for an excellent video. Both my capacitors have blown and there are bits missing. The one cap shows 0.15uF but the other cap I can't determine its value. Also the one resistor which has the colour code green, blue, but I can determine the third colour as it is blown. Any idea what the second cap value is and the resistor? Thanking you in advance

You don’t do it this way you remove the front panel of the appliance you use a 13 mm drillbit to drill out the centre of the tub lugs which holds the original damper in place, it’s very simple

I! Jean-Yves From france! You helped me but it's very tought! I'v got the same problem: This is bullshit! Well plastic dust with metal saw? Not even sure it'll be possible on my model. What i'm sure of : it's the same type of original ankle: it looks the same for sure. Even if my model is different: it's a Siemens WM12E363FF, not a bosch but in each side it has the same shape. Well for now the solution has been to first saw the shock absorber itself in the other side. Ok i think i understand : on the repair kit they tell to drill at Diameter 13.5 millimeters. There's not either way if we want to pass the new ankle which is rather different. The only thing is we must care to not to damage the the tank parts. I've not got that bit's size for now : need to buy again! 😮‍💨

Another bit of ridiculous design on the Galaxy - absolutely no reason to have so much dismantling just to pop the instrument panel out. Others I have come across - Aircon condenser: you're supposed to drain the cooling system and drop whole radiator assembly. Intercooler needs a load of stuff removed (in both cases I was able to drill/cut away front panel to get access - stupid design). You can't check/top up brake fluid without removing air filter (unless you use a syringe). And you need fingers like ET to change headlight/sidelight/indicator bulbs!

Brilliant video, thank you. You've given me the courage to do the work on mine. Super job - thanks again

I hear the dreaded smoking capacitors are a common failt on the A901, do you think replacing the older style capacitors in an A701a with the more updated one's would cause it to have the same issues as the A901?

Confuaed re top bolt, appears to fasten with allen key but what on other end?

Just found my Mums Kenwood mixer and it works but it does have this Smokey smell. I think I am gonna open it up and replace these components just to be sure. It hasn’t been used in about 20 years either. Great video btw 👍.

Mine started doing it this morning. Cleaned out the crumbs and it seemed to work at first but after a minute, a bright flash from the right slots then both sides released and it's dead.

Great thanks, repaired mine from watching your video. Cleaned 4 contacts up with fine needle file and ipa alcohol, also cleaned magnets of crud. Handles i broke plastic clips but glued back on okay. For anyone doing it, you're need a long reach T10 torx for one of 2 screws, the other 4 are philips. Thanks again.

We have same model , belonged to my late mother in law, same issue, i did see another repair video, cant find it now , chap said burning / smoking caused by dust so just needs clean ? Ive not looked yet but will see if capacitor looks damaged. Thanks for helpful video.

Thanks for this, I have two to repair and now I know how!

Apparently cakes very bad for you

It is not spinning too fast on min setting?

Hmm it all looked very informative until you said that the right side (when I face the toaster) has to work for the other side to work. Our right side won't stay down but the left will. Any thoughts please?

to detailed

Stupid idea by Bosch for a damper mount. Have recently done the same job and have had a look on here to see how others have done it. I'd tried pushing the peg out but then decided to use a wood tenon to cut the peg as in this video. When I couldn't get the front end tapped out, I drilled it. I hadn't realized the peg was integral with the casing. Dampers will fail so Bosch should have used a removable peg.

This is one of the best repair videos I've seen lately. Thanks.

Thankyou for a very informative and easy to follow video. My A901E too started smoking when used, my husband after looking at your video will now try to fix it himself as companies around here said it was too hard and takes too much time therefore it would be cheaper to purchase a new one, but we would like to pass this mixer onto our daughter. We are situated in AUSTRALIA, could you please let me know what I will need to purchase and where would I purchase it from please, if its not too much trouble. Thankyou once again, looking forward to your response.

Thank you very much, great, the error was solved for me too.👍

Just scrapped the same machine (purchase date 2005) for the same reason. I'm my case no build up of limescale, but the shock absorbers that you mention you had replaced had gone on my machine as well. Main bearing solid in mine as well. So I think it's enough to run a load with a worn shock to total the machine. Premium price machine with economy suspension.... won't be buying Bosch-Siemens again.

Thanks mister, my toaster is now fixed. I couldn't get the levers off though, mine don't have a tab you can press in. Anyway, didn't need to remove them as I could get at the contacts without taking the cover all the way off. Gonna have my breakfast now, thanks again :-)