Hotpoint Washing Machine - Removing Stuck Transit Bolts 

Thanks for your help, I am a tiny female trying to get these things out of my new Hotpoint today. I thought okay i am not strong enough but you validated me that the design is rubbish. Thank for your ideas. The comments helped also.

Had same issue and had great success with one of those hook tools that have a screwdriver handle. I strapped the rubber and they came out easily. Previous attempts with pliers, wrench, screw drivers all failed.

I found the best way to do this was to fully remove the screw then insert it back in about half an inch so it just hits the rubber part of the bolt then prize the bolt out by moving screw from side to side pulling at the black rubber bit with the screw a couple of moves and it pops out.

I've just done mine, the first one I tried was a nightmare, I did it in the end by wrapping a length of cord behind the flange and pulling. Like your first attempt, but behind the flange instead of using the clips at the front. I think the underlying problem is that the rubber around the spacer gets trapped in the hole. Terrible design.

Is this sharp machine?

I snapped one and had to take the back off thankfully it was sitting at the bottom of the machine.

So much work when multigrips did the job

Absolute joke. I'm 6'5" and 19 stone big man. I managed to remove two of the bolts. I can't physically turn the other two. It's going back tomorrow. Garbage.