--- title: "Dryer error code LE1" description: "LG dryer error code LE1: LG groups several codes around the drum motor and its drive, and they share a symptom: the machine powers up, the light comes on…" url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/dryer-drum-motor/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Dryers" --- # Dryer error code LE1 ### What LE1 means on this make LG groups several codes around the drum motor and its drive, and they share a symptom: the machine powers up, the light comes on, and nothing rotates. The causes range from a belt that has snapped — which you can usually confirm by turning the drum by hand and finding it free and silent — to a seized idler pulley, to the motor itself. It is a common repair on a machine past its first decade and a straightforward one. ### The other ways LG prints this one LE1 · LE2 · LE3 · AE · CE1 LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. ### Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. ### What to do about it - Turn the drum by hand with the power off. Free and silent usually means the belt. - Listen when you start it: a hum with no rotation is different from complete silence. - Check the machine is not overloaded, which can stall a tired motor. - Book it — the cabinet has to come apart, and it is not a homeowner job. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. What this one means What LE1 means on this make LG groups several codes around the drum motor and its drive, and they share a symptom: the machine powers up, the light comes on, and nothing rotates. The causes range from a belt that has snapped — which you can usually confirm by turning the drum by hand and finding it free and silent — to a seized idler pulley, to the motor itself. It is a common repair on a machine past its first decade and a straightforward one. The other ways LG prints this one LE1 · LE2 · LE3 · AE · CE1 LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. What to do about it Turn the drum by hand with the power off. Free and silent usually means the belt. Listen when you start it: a hum with no rotation is different from complete silence. Check the machine is not overloaded, which can stall a tired motor. Book it — the cabinet has to come apart, and it is not a homeowner job. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Dryer error code LE1](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/dryer-drum-motor/)**