Service
LG dryer moisture sensor service
Two metal strips inside the drum front decide when the load is dry, and fabric softener films them over until the machine reads every load as finished. The result is a cycle that jumps from an hour to a minute, or one that stops with the laundry still damp. Often cleaning rather than a part, and priced accordingly.
- From $95 diagnostic, credited to the repair
- 59 cities and neighborhoods covered
- OEM parts available on order
- In writing the price, before anything is opened
Before you read on
What this job costs and how it is agreed
A starting figure, not a quote. What moves it is the model, how the unit is built in and which part it needs — settled after the on-site diagnostic.
Starts at
from $115
After a diagnostic from $95, which comes off the bill when you go ahead.
or call (305) 419-0291
Diagnostic
From $95, credited to the repair
The price
In writing, before anything is opened
Warranty
On the labor we performed
On the visit
How this visit actually goes
The same order every time, so nothing is opened and nothing is charged before you have seen the figure and said yes.
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01
Test auto against timed
If timed dries and auto does not, the sensor is the whole answer.
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02
Clean the strips
Rubbing alcohol on a pad until they are bright metal.
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Check the wiring behind them
A connector that has vibrated loose gives the same reading.
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Measure the sensor
Where cleaning has not fixed it.
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05
Advise on softener
Liquid softener and dryer sheets are what film these. Worth saying rather than replacing the part twice.
Applies to
The LG units we carry this work out on
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Electric · gas · ventless heat pump · WashTower · the SideKick pair LG dryer repair in Miami
Sixty-eight dryers in the catalog, in three quite different kinds: vented electric, vented gas, and the ventless heat pump machines that condense the water into a drawer instead of pushing it outside. That last group changes what a repair is — there is no duct to blame, and the two things that fail are the condenser block and the drain the water leaves by. LG publishes codes for all of it, including the thermistor set tE1 to tE6 and the drn/OE pair that only exists on a machine with a water container.
- Vented electric, vented gas, and ventless heat pump machines
- tE1–tE6 thermistors, nP at the heater, drn/OE on the condensate drain
- On vented machines the duct is the first suspect and usually the answer
In more detail
About LG dryer moisture sensor service
A cotton ball and rubbing alcohol, twice a year
The two metal strips sit just inside the drum opening, low down and a few inches apart, and you can find them with a finger. Unplug the machine, wipe them with rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball until it stops coming away gray, and let them dry. That is the whole maintenance, and it is worth doing every six months in a house that uses dryer sheets, because the film they leave is what makes a machine read a soaking load as finished and shut down after eight minutes. Until you get to it, a timed cycle will dry your clothes; the sensor cycles are the ones that will not.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards
Before you book
Questions about LG dryer moisture sensor service
I cleaned them and it still stops early.
Then the strips are being read wrongly rather than being covered, and that is the wiring or the control behind them. It is still the cheapest laundry repair on this site.
Should I stop using dryer sheets?
You do not have to, but they are the cause here and they coat the lint screen as well. Hold the screen under a running tap: if the water beads instead of passing straight through, that is the same film.
Where we do it
Across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach
Same terms everywhere we go: an on-site diagnostic first, the price agreed in writing, and the exact figure confirmed once we have seen the unit.
Neighborhoods people ask for by name