--- title: "Washer error code vS" description: "LG washer error code vS: The machine uses a vibration sensor to decide how fast it dares spin, and without it, it will not risk a high spin at all." url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/washer-vibration-sensor/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Washers" --- # Washer error code vS ### What vS means on this make The machine uses a vibration sensor to decide how fast it dares spin, and without it, it will not risk a high spin at all. The symptom is laundry coming out wetter than it should from a machine that otherwise behaves. On the top loaders LG also documents u5 in this family, and the practical advice is the same: check the machine is level before assuming the sensor. ### The other ways LG prints this one vS · uS · US · u5 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 - Push each corner of the machine. All four feet should be firmly down with no rock. - Check the machine is not on a raised pedestal that has worked loose. - Cut the power for five minutes. - Book it if the spin stays slow on a level machine. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [washer spin and balance repair](/services/washer-spin-and-balance-repair/), 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. Vibration sensor What this one means What vS means on this make The machine uses a vibration sensor to decide how fast it dares spin, and without it, it will not risk a high spin at all. The symptom is laundry coming out wetter than it should from a machine that otherwise behaves. On the top loaders LG also documents u5 in this family, and the practical advice is the same: check the machine is level before assuming the sensor. The other ways LG prints this one vS · uS · US · u5 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 Push each corner of the machine. All four feet should be firmly down with no rock. Check the machine is not on a raised pedestal that has worked loose. Cut the power for five minutes. Book it if the spin stays slow on a level machine. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is washer spin and balance repair, 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: Washer error code vS](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/washer-vibration-sensor/)**