I was using Finish Quantum power ball and salts from SOMAT as i have hard water. I began using finishing rinse aid as well as a no name brand but I don't notice the difference. But one thing that has happened is that the lower basket on RHS has rusted and now a prong has broken off. The rust showed up before and Miele replaced basket in first five years (of ten year warranty) but said no more. When this happened again four years later, I called Miele and while I was told when I purchased the machine to use FINISH, Miele is saying it has been reformatted and is causing the problem. That or the rinse aid. OR combo. I will be buying Miele Ultra Tabs from now on and being in Canada in a rural setting, I will have to get them from the co directly. (Note I have an 18 inch d/w). I do hope there is a way to cut the tabs in two as I really don't need that much detergent given size of loads.

or ... different size packages for both liquid and powder WL stands for Waesche Ladungen = Wash/laundry Loads eg, your cardboard box is the 330 grams / 6 WL one Be aware that the recommended dosage refers to a "old style" wool cycle with a very high level (same level used on "delicates", 1/3 glass). As I guess your machine has a very low water, "wetclean-like" wool cycle the actual dosage would be just one third in this programme. As a clue my newer machine on "wool" uses 1 1/2 gallon per fill vs the 7 maybe 8 gallon per fill of the older one Guess they don't display perwoll powder dosages cause 90% of people use liquids for delicates ( I assume this from what i see on detergent aisles here)

Sooby I pointed out **page 28** of that manual so that everyone finally may realize that cup can be *** pulled out** from the drawer and emptied into the sink :)) Pouring liquid detergent with water still in the cup is not a good idea, cause it overflows too early This water left is not a design flaw. That's a cup and behaves ... as a cup. Unless one turns it upside down, it doesn't empty by itself. To figure out how this "cup thing" works, take a coffee cup, squeeze some dishwashing liquid in it, close your sink drain with the plug, hold in hand the cup under the open sink faucet. Water overflows the cup (your own detergent dispenser) and fills the sink (your washing tub). When you close the stopcock the cup is still full of water. It's **you** with **your wrist** that turn the cup upside down and empty it The washer dispensing cup for liquids works the same way .... but the washer lacks of a wrist to empty the cup :))

Wanted to mention in terms of potential gunk building up in the auto-dose washers, the models manufactured for the US market do not to my understanding have the extra loading dock for a whites detergent system like Miele does. I think that's a big difference in what may develop in the future as far as odor and mold. The twindos system has hydrogen peroxide in their whites detergent cartridge as I understand it. This ingredient is likely the game changer (saver) with the development of mold and odors within the washing machine. Also, many US washers do not have as hot of washes as a Miele does. Many American users are selecting hot for a wash and only getting around 100 to 111 degrees; this leads to noxious build up for many washers. Other users only select cold washes, which in many cases will cause mold/odor build up. I can foresee mold growing in these machines rather quickly. The caveat here is that if one sets the detergent dosage just right, it might reduce the medium with which mold can set up house and take over a washing machine.