pamela wrote:
On 18:52 5 Jun 2018, Scott wrote:

On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:46:58 +0100, pamela
wrote:

On 09:19 5 Jun 2018, Scott wrote:

The time taken for a 60 degree cotton wash in my LG washing
machine seems to vary enormously. Sometimes it takes over three
hours. Today it is claiming it will take one hour and 15
minutes. I used to think it was to do with the size (weight?) of
the load but today is quite a full load with what seems to be a
fast cycle time. I'm puzzled.

When my machine behaved like this it turned out to be due to worn
brushes.

Worn brushes speed up the wash? Things can only get better then
:-)

Worn bushes extended the duration of the wash. New brushes corrected
it. It was a Bosch.

Perhaps is was caused by repeated attempts to rotate the drum failing
(which mught vary with load) until it got enough momentum to carry on.
Perhaps the programer timed out the operation. I'm just guessing as I
don't know why the new brushes worked.

Mine cost 160 quid from Curry. Own brand. Delivered, installed and they took
the old one away.
It has been there for the past 7 years and washes fine.
When it cocks up I'll just buy a new one. I'm not dragging the thing out to
fix it.