A Miele classic to stuff my stocking!

[mistereric]

After two loads last night, the small dose Tide HE worked very well. Looks like I have a detergent solution! I used a whole scoop but poured it over the divide in the dispenser, so each wash got about half the dose. Same with a scoop of oxygen bleach. Results were very decent, and no oversudsing.

Why didn't I think of vinegar before? Sheesh. Good idea.

She seems to leak only on rinse fills, which is kinda bizarre. The machine is level, so thats not it. Weird that its only on rinses! The water leaks out of the dispenser.

I absolutely love the super quick dryer cycles after using this machine.

 

[tomturbomatic]

If the dispenser leaks only on the rinses, it might have something to do with the fill jets above the drawer. While it is filling for a rinse, partially pull the drawer open and see where the water is spraying down then shut off the machine and remove the drawer. You might have hard water deposits that are deflecting the spray and causing a leak. Is it leaking on the fill for all of the rinses or just the last one? The last one fills into the softener dispenser and that can be a whole different can of worms. Given the bad state of the dispenser when you got the machine, it might just need a bit of demineraling to stop the leaks. Good luck!

 

[launderess]

You can split detergent 1/4 to 3/4 between pre-wash and main cycles. Since these machines do not spin after the pre-wash a good amount of detergent will carry over to the main cycle.

Leaking from which of the rinse cycles? All four or just the final one? Where does the water come from? More towards the back or front of the dispenser drawer.

If only the final rinse check to see if the fabric softener compartment including siphon tube are clean. The manual tells how to take the latter apart for cleaning. If it is fouled with gunk it may not drain as fast as it should causing the leaking.

Best way to determine what is going on is to remove the dispenser drawer and allow the washer to fill for the final rinse. Whilst it is doing so examine if water is coming freely from all ports.

If the washer was used in Manhattan/NYC only we have pretty soft water, so a build up of scale deposits doesn't come to our minds at first.But then again seeing pictures of the state of that detergent compartment anything is possible.

If the worse comes to the worse you may have to remove the entire detergent compartment and examine for leaks and or damage.

 

[ronhic]

Dispenser leak

The other thing to look at is the hose from the inlet solinoid to the dispenser - it may have developed a small crack in it.

It's something that happened both to my Hoover Electra and my mothers ASEA - easily fixed, but can be a bugger to find as we tend to look everywhere around the dispenser, drum and door boot without actually checking the actual inlet hose.

 

[mistereric]

The door to the fabric softner dispenser is very crusty. I'm surprised - spent 31 years on NYC soft water and never saw crust form like this. The dispenser sat in the sink with CLR on the deposits overnight and they hardly shifted. Might try to take the panel off the front of the dispenser so I can soak the whole thing.

I'll def check out how the jets are firing next time I do a wash. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[launderess]

Personally

While one understands the desire for a "mint" looking vintage appliance sometimes we have to deal with the real, as they say.

CLR is powerful stuff and if it didn't remove the crud not sure what else might outside of sand blasting. My larger concern would be the internal parts which are fast becoming if not already NLA from MieleUSA. Could deal with the odd blemish or such externally.

Of course you could push the boat out and see if a new dispenser drawer is available from MieleUSA. Seeing as the machines came cheaply even spending the dear money Miele often wishes for parts shouldn't be so bad, that is if you want a "clean look" to the appliance.

What you may have could also be something other than scale crud, and or it has sunk so deep into the plastic and remained for so long that shifting it totally will be near impossible.

 

[washer111]

Machine is not leaking as such, suds start to appear from the outer tub from between the door seal and the main drum. 

 

We've read the manual, it never stated to NOT connect to softened water. Too bad anyway, we're not even going to THINK about putting it outdoors. Hardness is 25 Grains per Gallon, around 350ppm in every L or something. That hardness killed 2 electric kettles in 12 months and if we hadn't gotten a softener, our POS Simpson would've gone the same way. Miele wouldn't honour the warranty on any service there I'd bet, especially if one had access to softened water. 

 

The manual DOES say, however, not to connect the machine to HOT water, hotter than 60ºC or 150ºF. I think its our detergent choice, since the Bio-Zet we used before didn't do this. Using "Napi-Sand" also really causes issues. Fabric Softener helps, though we don't use it lots!