The D1976W leaves the factory wearing its own front. That is the difference worth drawing between a finish SKU like this one and the fully integrated machines elsewhere in Asko’s United States range, which are built to take a door panel supplied by whoever fitted the kitchen. On a D1976W the panel is Asko’s, in white, coded W in the SKU table of Asko Inc.’s own United States Product Guide, form 051101-0530, dated 2002, and the door mechanism left the factory matched to it.
For a repair that is the easier case: there is no owner-supplied panel weight to work around, and the door hardware is the hardware the machine was built with. What remains is age. The D1976W is long discontinued, no published specification for it was recovered, and the question of whether the part it needs can still be obtained is answered against the serial number plate before any work is quoted.
Key Features
- Printed in the SKU table of Asko Inc.'s own United States Product Guide, form 051101-0530, dated 2002
- Asko's own SKU table reads the W suffix as White
- Finish SKU of the D1976: a finished factory door rather than a panel-ready one
- Published specification detail for this model was not recovered; the serial number plate on the machine is the authority
- Discontinued
Most Common Issues on This Model
Water on the floor at the front of the machine
The drain pump running on without clearing the sump
Loads coming out wetter than they used to at the end of drying
A cycle running far longer than it used to