No cold water in my HOTPOINT washing machine !!!

Shunt power to the solenoid (or bypass its switch) and see if you can operate it manually.

Don Kansas City

Your Hot/Cold water lines are operating properly, right? (make sure the hand-valves are open all the way)

feed electricty to the solenoid, ands/or measure the voltage it's getting when it's supposed to be operating. measur it's resistance and compare that wit what it's supposed to be.

Washing machine solenoids have a hard life and fail quite often.

Bye. Jasen

Often there is a small combination washer and screen filter where the water hose connects to the inlet to the washing machine. It can get plugged with debris over time, and cause the problem you describe.

Turn off the water and disconnect the hose to inspect the screen. The best way to do this is really to have a couple of new filters on hand and some teflon plumbing tape. Take both hoses off, taking care that you know which is hot & which is cold so you can put them back in the right places. Replace the filters - they go in the end of the hose - wrap some teflon tape on the threads of the inlet, and put it back together.

Assuming that the filters are not the problem, troubleshooting the solenoid is easy. Simply connect the wires that went to the hot solenoid to the cold water solenoid instead, and vice versa. If the hot water still works and the cold water still does not, the solenoid is defective. If the trouble moves so that the cold water now works and the hot water doesn't, the circuit that connects power to the cold water solenoid is bad somehwere.

Ed