Hello, I bought a Siemens E.Q. 6 Series 300 coffee machine today. I’ve filled it with water and added coffee. I opened the side flap of the brew unit, where there was a small instruction leaflet on cleaning and so on. When I tried to pull out the brew unit, I noticed that I couldn’t ‘unlock’ it. The wheel with the hole for the red switch seems to be in the wrong position and the switch cannot be pushed back – something I only noticed after I had unlocked the brew unit (a manufacturing fault? In all the videos, the hole for the switch was in the correct position). However, following the instructions, I managed to open the mechanism by pressing the right button down (which was theoretically blocked by the faulty padlock button, but it went down without any trouble and without me having to use any force, so I thought everything was fine). However, everything wasn’t fine, because despite pressing the right button down, the mechanism only slides out halfway, as if something were blocking it. On top of that, I can’t push it back in, as I can’t push the padlock button back – which is strange, as it opened without any trouble. Does the machine need replacing, or have I done something wrong? That wheel with the hole for the switch won’t turn at all.
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