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Jirina Ribbens Posted on May 29, 2007
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Starts cycle and then stops

I loaded a medium load in the perm press cycle and the machine started. When it gets to pause to cool down it stops. It gets stuck in the same position. I tried to move it to spin cycle to manually start the clycle, but that wouldn't work. The clothes are in there in the water and the program will not finish. I just got this Whirlpool as part of my new apartment and it worked fine on the regular cycle only once. Please help.

  • chiroken Dec 17, 2007

    the cycle starts and half way through the program on any setting, it stops altogether. i allow it to sit to see if it will proceed but it will not. when i manually move the dial to rinse, the wash cycle continues, but it will not rinse, drain, or spin.



    i just moved into a rental unit and have what seems to be a broken washer.

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