The answer first
A leak that shows up only during one part of the cycle tells you which part of the machine is letting go. Establish the timing first; the part follows from it. On this kind of cabinet trading-company labels share their guts with dozens of other names, so a part that looks generic typically is generic.
What the owner sees
- Water shows up only while the machine is filling — Points at the inlet hoses or the valve rather than at anything downstream.
- Water shows up only during the drain or spin — Puts the problem on the pump housing, the filter seal or the drain hose connection.
- A puddle shows up at the front left or right corner only — Water tracks along the base and emerges at the lowest point, so the corner tells you less than the timing does.
- NEAR MISS — water inside the drum after a cycle — That is a drain fault rather than a leak, and it is covered on the drainage page.
Likely causes in order
- Filter cap or pump housing seal not seated — Ranked first: This is the leak that arrives right away after someone cleaned the filter, and the timing is the clue. It sits at the top here since trading-company labels share their guts with dozens of other names, so a part that looks generic typically is generic.
- Door seal torn, folded or holding debris — Second: A seal that looks perfect will still leak if something is trapped in its fold, and that is the first thing to look for rather than the last.
- Detergent overdosing and foam overflow — Third: It is the one leak that is cured by changing a habit rather than a component.
What to look at first
- Check the load size against the programme — An overloaded drum unbalances the spin, stalls the motor and creates faults that disappear with a lighter wash.
- Check both supply hose connections by touch — A weeping fitting is damp at the nut and dry along the hose, and it leaks whether or not the machine is running.
- Reduce the detergent dose for one cycle and watch — If the leak disappears with less detergent, the machine was not leaking so much as overflowing.
Owner-side steps
- Secure the drain hose at the standpipe — Fit the hose into its bracket so pump pressure cannot lift it, keeping the loop the installation needs.
Tools: hose clipAbout 15 min
- Halve the detergent for a few cycles — Use the dose for your water hardness and load size, and watch whether the leak ends with the foam.
About 10 min
- Tighten or renew the supply hose washers — Close the tap, unscrew the hose, fit a fresh washer and tighten firmly by hand plus a light nip with a wrench.
Tools: adjustable wrench, hose washersAbout 20 min
- STOP before any electrical testing — Hand over here: the remaining tests need an instrument and an isolated appliance.
The hazard in this appliance class
Safety
The sequence matters: unplug or trip the breaker, close the supply taps, drain what is left in the hoses, and only then open anything. A capacitor can hold a charge with everything dark, and standing water plus mains voltage is the one combination this appliance class puts in the same box. Both rules exist since this cabinet keeps water and mains wiring within a hand span of each other.
When this stops being DIY
Book a visit right away if water is reaching the mains socket or running under the machine toward one. Anything that smells of burning, trips a breaker or leaves scorch marks is a stop-now condition rather than a diagnosis to continue.
Nearest pages of this class
Generalized information
Treat this as the general case. This one names the signature across Cixi Feilong International Trading Co., Ltd. washing machines and stops there — it does not identify your control board, your gasket profile or your service part, and it does not reproduce a factory procedure. Read this one for the shape of the problem, and the specific page for the specifics. It also does not cover installation faults that look like appliance faults, which are handled on the pages for the problem they imitate.
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