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title: "Washing machine is loud on the spin"
description: "Miele washing machine is loud on the spin: noise that arrives with the spin and quiets as it slows is the classic bearing signature — and it is worth acting…"
url: "https://mielemiami.support/symptoms/washer-noisy-on-spin/"
date_modified: "2026-08-22"
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# Miele washing machine is loud on the spin

### The fastest diagnosis is the code

Check that all four feet are on the floor and that the machine is level, and if it has ever been moved, that the transit bolts were taken out. All three sound alarming, all three are free, and none of them is a bearing.

### What a bearing actually sounds like

A rumble or a roar that rises with the spin speed and quiets as the drum slows. It is different from a knock during the wash, which is usually the load or a shock absorber, and different from a rattle, which is usually something loose. Saying which of the three you hear is worth more than any other sentence on the phone.

### Why it is worth catching early on this make

These machines are built for around twenty years, so a bearing at ten is a part fitted to a chassis with half its life left. Left to run to failure it can take the drum and the shaft with it, and that is the point at which the sums stop working.

Transit bolts still fitted

After a move. Loud, dramatic and free to fix.

Feet and level

A machine on three feet walks and knocks under load.

Shock absorbers

They let the drum move further than it should. A fraction of the cost of a bearing and they imitate one.

The bearings

Rising with the spin, months before anything stops. On a twenty-year machine at ten years, usually worth doing.

A rumble that rises with the speed

What it usually means

A rumble or roar that rises with the spin

Knocking during the wash rather than the spin

A machine that moves across the floor

The fastest diagnosis is the code

Check that all four feet are on the floor and that the machine is level, and if it has ever been moved, that the transit bolts were taken out. All three sound alarming, all three are free, and none of them is a bearing.

What a bearing actually sounds like

A rumble or a roar that rises with the spin speed and quiets as the drum slows. It is different from a knock during the wash, which is usually the load or a shock absorber, and different from a rattle, which is usually something loose. Saying which of the three you hear is worth more than any other sentence on the phone.

Why it is worth catching early on this make

These machines are built for around twenty years, so a bearing at ten is a part fitted to a chassis with half its life left. Left to run to failure it can take the drum and the shaft with it, and that is the point at which the sums stop working.

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