Recent content by codybear

Sorry, you misunderstood my post. I kept my old machine. The short version: Miele came in, said they could do nothing and left. That left me in the hunt of a solution without paying $575 for a new controller. The purchased "used" machines I ended up with were visually far inferior machines...

It's Alive! About a month ago, I had the pleasure of having not one, but two Miele service techs drive up in separate vans. Told them, I have it open and they just need to re-flash the program. They took one look and said that they can not re-program a machine that old (20 years)...

No need for a backup washer as I can still use the Miele to do a wash. I need to use the manual door opener and then get it into countdown wash cycle and select the temp/fabric within 4 seconds and I'm good to go. Not sure if I'm getting water plus, but I can at least get it to do the cycle I...

No joy on the 5 second turn off. Did the ohm test of the two boards last week and everything is fine. It's appears that reprogramming is becoming my only option. I'll give it one last effort leaving it unplugged for a while and then I'll set up an appointment.

Launderess: I told CS I tried to get it into service mode to diagnose the water led warning, so there was no "lying" to Miele. The CS rep lacked the documentation, expertise or the plain fact a field technician will need to resolve the problem. It is as simple as that. His final solution was...

I had/have a problem with the cold water input valve, so in order to better diagnose the problem, I tried to put it into service mode as per the W1900 technical manual. Tried a dozen times, but could never get the acknowledgement indicator (successful access into the Service Mode is indicated...