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title: "Washer spin and balance repair"
description: "LG washer spin and balance repair: uE that will not clear on a fair load, a machine that walks, or a spin that never reaches speed."
url: "https://lgmiami.support/services/washer-spin-and-balance-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-06"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# LG washer spin and balance repair

### Shipping bolts, a level, and one heavy towel

Three things get checked before any part is discussed. Whether the shipping bolts came out of the back when the machine was delivered, because a washer still bolted will shake a room and it is not rare. Whether it is level front to back and side to side on all four feet with the lock nuts tight against the body, which a phone app is accurate enough to tell you. And what was in the drum, because a single soaked bath towel or a mattress protector holding a balloon of water defeats any balancing system, and this one tries three times to redistribute before it gives up and shows UE.

What this involves

A machine that will not spin any load is different from one that will not spin some

Leveling is free and it is the first thing checked

vS and uS are the vibration sensor, and a slow spin is often that rather than the drive

Level it first

All four feet down, no rock, on a floor that does not flex. Free, and it fixes a real share of these.

Test with a known load

Three towels, spread evenly. A machine that spins that is a machine with a balance problem rather than a mechanical one.

Check the dampers and suspension

They soften with age and a machine that has been moved house is the classic candidate.

Test the vibration sensor

vS or uS. A machine that will not authorize a high spin holds itself slow.

Verify at full speed

With a real load, watching the machine rather than listening from the hall.

### It only shakes on towels and jeans.

Then it is doing what it should and the load is the problem. Wash heavy items with a couple of lighter ones for company and see whether it settles before you spend anything.

### The machine has walked across the floor twice.

Stop using it until it has been looked at. A washer that walks is either unlevel or running on tired dampers, and the hoses behind it are what pays for that eventually.

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