Miele W4842 vibration/shaking solved & fixed
larsi_gw
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Front loader washing machine shaking/vibrations
Comments (11)Just installed a LG FL washer and it wasn't the smoothest at first. Some thoughts. 1. Is the machine attached to the base with brackets? If so, did you tighten the feet on the machine 1/2 turn or so after the brackets were installed and tightened? This puts some load on the feet and pretty much eliminates any movement between the machine and the pedestal. 2. The LG manual and others here have recommended a "tuning" of the feet. You need to loosen the locking nut on one foot, and have a wrench that you can use to tighten/loosen that foot while the machine is acting up in the spin cycle. I found it helped to first loosen it to make the shake worse, and then slowly tighten until it stops or greatly reduces. Tighten too much at it should start to get worse again. Takes some time and patience sitting on the floor waiting for it act up, but can help. I "tuned" ours with about a 11 lb load....See MoreMiele W4842 - liquid vs. powder detergent
Comments (24)The liquid doesn't run out of my soap tray, but our water is in softer end of the 'moderately hard' category and I use very little detergent. It mostly just sits in the dispenser tray due to the small volume, but I rarely use more than a half-Tablespoon of liquid detergent or we have suds overload. For experiment, I just now filled the soap tray with 1/2 cup of water, and it does slooowly drip out. Maybe the thickness of liquid detergent wouldn't drip out much.(?) You raise a good question about the water pump removing residual water in the bottom of the tub when a cycle begins. It's probably not an issue unless the machine is programmed for a delayed start. By then, the liquid might make it down to the bottom of the tub if the delay is an hour or more. I've never used the pre-wash but I think @larsi has. Others will have to comment on that....See MoreSpeaker Spikes to solve vibrating FLers?
Comments (12)According to another forum discussion regarding speaker spikes: trebble, high sound, travels through air best, and does so pretty much all of the time. sub bass / bass travels best through solids and is what it does most of the time. now, the bass (as it is goign through solids) travels fractionaly faster than the trebble...however, as they are 2 waves, and they are *almost* together...the ear does not notice it. MIDBASS however is where our problem begins...midbass travels partialy through the air, and partialy through the floor...because we have 2 waves and a slight delay (the wave in the floor goes faster) we are stretching the midbass (altogether a bit of a nasty sort of bass if heared on its own) and hence we end up with a "muddy" sound...very noticable in some cases with the spikes, waves require a certain amout or low frequency to utilise the "coupling" and the midbass is *almost*all stoped from getting to the floor. this creates 2 plus points, the sound is now less muddy, and as the sub bass/bass has its own "highway" all to itself, it also comes across clearer. Anyways, you are proposing an interesting experiment to see if spikes will help your washing machine from vibrating floor. I think it is interesting since in this case there is no speaker cones to move the air and the vibration frequency is probably in the bass to mid-bass frequency range. Here is a link that might be useful: Digital trends...See MoreNeed new washer - comparing Miele W4842 vs W4802
Comments (11)Aside from the additional Mastercare programs the display offers on the 4842, it's worthy to mention it also leaves you with endless possibilities for updates. I wouldn't be surprised if Miele offers a PC update to add or improve upon existing Mastercare programs in the future as they suggest they do. I'm hoping if I bit_h enough i'll get a "Pillows" program one day. It also makes adjusting some of the programmable options much easier. I was disappointed I couldn't get a dryer with the same arrangement.The build quality of these machines you will notice right away. But itâÂÂs not until you have been using them for a while, then take notice of some models in a local store, you realize how much better they are built. Your standards will never settle for anything less. YouâÂÂve become use to how things should be built. As for the 5 year warranty and Remote Vision package I say YES. I think I paid less than $300 for both washer and dryer. These machines are solid but should they need a repair it's not cheap. As a side note, Remote Vision can be hard to configure to your network. In fact, the instruction I received were for configuring it running windows XP. I did a bit of complaining to the Remote Vision department since I have windows 7 and things have changed in those operating systems. Five weeks later I received notice additional programming instructions were now available for customer running windows Vista and 7. Do I thinks it's necessary my washer communicates it's status to Miele every hour and in the event of a malfunction, no. But it sure is cool......See Moreasolo
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