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title: "Dishes come out wet"
description: "Miele dishwasher not drying — miele dishes come out wet: on this make that is frequently not a repair at all. A Miele dries with residual heat and, on the"
url: "https://mielemiami.support/symptoms/dishwasher-not-drying/"
date_modified: "2026-08-22"
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# Miele dishes come out wet

### The fastest diagnosis is the code

Fill the rinse aid reservoir. It is the single most effective thing on this page and it is free. If your machine is one that opens its door at the end of the cycle and has stopped doing it, say so when you call — that is a specific mechanism rather than a general drying problem.

### This machine does not dry the way an older one does

There is no long heated-dry phase. A Miele dries with the heat left in the load and the tub, and the newer machines open their own door at the end to let the moisture escape. So the things that make it fail are different: rinse aid, the door mechanism, and how the load was packed — before any heater is suspected.

### When it is the heater after all

If the water never gets hot either, that is a different page in the same machine. This maker reports the heating circuit and its temperature sensor as two separate conditions, and the sensor is a fraction of the part.

Rinse aid empty

Residual-heat drying depends on it more than a heated-dry machine does.

The automatic door opening

A mechanism, and it has its own conditions on the display.

Items nested so water sits in the hollows. Plastics dry last on any residual-heat machine and sometimes not at all — that part is normal.

The heating circuit or its sensor

When the water never gets hot either. This make reports the two separately.

Clean, and still soaking

What it usually means

Plastics wet, china dry

Everything wet on every program

A door that used to open at the end and no longer does

The fastest diagnosis is the code

Fill the rinse aid reservoir. It is the single most effective thing on this page and it is free. If your machine is one that opens its door at the end of the cycle and has stopped doing it, say so when you call — that is a specific mechanism rather than a general drying problem.

This machine does not dry the way an older one does

There is no long heated-dry phase. A Miele dries with the heat left in the load and the tub, and the newer machines open their own door at the end to let the moisture escape. So the things that make it fail are different: rinse aid, the door mechanism, and how the load was packed — before any heater is suspected.

When it is the heater after all

If the water never gets hot either, that is a different page in the same machine. This maker reports the heating circuit and its temperature sensor as two separate conditions, and the sensor is a fraction of the part.

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