Miele W1 ‘Automatic Plus’ - wrinkles…

[novum]

Hi,
This is my first post. Just stumbled upon this site and thought I would see if any of you might be able to solve a puzzle for me.

What exactly does the ‘Automatic Plus’ cycle on my Miele W1 do?

For my usual not very dirty T-shirts, shirts and so on, I normally use the Cotton 40°C on short, with water plus set to max and it normally produces perfect results.

However, I tired the Automatic Plus cycle on a fairly small mixed load of T-shirts, shirts, couple of pairs of chinos and well washed jeans and they came out surprisingly badly wrinkled.

I used an Ariel Pod (colour) and some Comfort Pure conditioner, rather than the Miele cartridge detergent, but I’ve never had this wrinkling issue with any of those products.

Any idea what’s going on? Is it just some very low water levels on that cycle?

There’s a similarly named cycle on the T1 dryer which I’ve only used a couple of times and can’t see much difference between it and the Cottons cycle tbh.

 

[mrlaundry1011]

The automatic plus cycle is a slightly less intensive cotton short prog, but it does full length rinses with intensive tumbles (not just distri rinse and drain) along with a 3.5min hold at 1400 after a burst, the burst means it’s 99% gonna be balanced enough to always reach 1400 and not limit. I hardly ever use cottons short since it doesn’t do a burst on final spin and if it decides to spin unbalanced it won’t reach 1600 and hold like automatic does, but when it does it holds for much longer at 6min.

The extra creasing could be that cottons short is limiting itself on your machine and therefore not creasing as much than automatic would? That’s the only thing I could think of. QuickPowerWash is the same with no burst on final spin but with a 3.5min hold. Cottons short above 50c however will do full length cotton rinse&spins as it’s 1hr 59

 

[novum]

The cotton cycle as I have it setup is very intense rinsing with deep levels.