washing machine, some probs (Easton BS5)

This gorenje washing machine has 2 known problems:

1) You often have to push/hold the door to get the sensor to notice the door is shut so that a wash will start. This is doable.
2) Sometimes the spin fails if a large or heavy load is put in. This can be much more of a pain because it leaves you with dripping wet stuff and you then have to wring stuff out by hand (to make it less heavy) and split it into several smaller loads to get it to spin.

Anyway, thought it was worth putting on here in case someone wanted it in a 'better than no washing machine at all' situation - or a 'will have a go at fixing that' situation!