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title: "Washing machine will not spin"
description: "Miele washer not spinning — miele washing machine will not spin: a machine that washes and rinses and then leaves the load dripping."
url: "https://mielemiami.support/symptoms/washer-not-spinning/"
date_modified: "2026-08-22"
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# Miele washing machine will not spin

### The fastest diagnosis is the code

Redistribute the load and run a spin on its own. A single heavy item — one bath towel, a mat — will not balance, and the machine will refuse rather than damage itself. If a redistributed load spins normally, nothing is wrong.

### Refusing and unable are different

A machine that tries, slows and gives up is usually balancing rather than failing — one heavy item cannot be spun safely and it will not try. A machine that never attempts the spin at all is a different question, and the first thing to establish is whether it has finished draining, because it cannot spin until it has.

### The door lock is part of this

No confirmation of the lock, no spin. So a spin complaint on this make sometimes turns out to be a door page rather than a motor one, which is a cheaper outcome and worth checking early.

An unbalanced load

The commonest cause and not a failure. The machine is protecting itself.

Water still in the drum

It cannot spin until it has drained, so a drain problem presents as a spin problem.

The door lock

The machine will not spin unless the lock is confirmed.

The motor or its control

When the drum turns freely by hand and the machine still will not.

Clothes come out soaked

What it usually means

Clothes soaking wet at the end

The machine trying to spin and giving up

It spins on some programs and not others

The fastest diagnosis is the code

Redistribute the load and run a spin on its own. A single heavy item — one bath towel, a mat — will not balance, and the machine will refuse rather than damage itself. If a redistributed load spins normally, nothing is wrong.

Refusing and unable are different

A machine that tries, slows and gives up is usually balancing rather than failing — one heavy item cannot be spun safely and it will not try. A machine that never attempts the spin at all is a different question, and the first thing to establish is whether it has finished draining, because it cannot spin until it has.

The door lock is part of this

No confirmation of the lock, no spin. So a spin complaint on this make sometimes turns out to be a door page rather than a motor one, which is a cheaper outcome and worth checking early.

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