Dryer runs full cycle and spins fine but clothes stay wet
The clothes stay wet and cold because the dryer's heating system fails to warm the air despite a strong exterior vent airflow and normal drum rotation. This leaves users with full loads of damp laundry after a complete cycle, requiring them to repeatedly run the machine or air-dry clothes by hand.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1cleaning out all the debris inside the dryer
- 2Checking and testing the heating element
- 3Inspecting the blower wheel for detachment or breakage
- 4Checking the dryer vent hose for severe clogs
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“She was complaining that her clothes were no longer drying.”source ↗
“The metal piece in the picture feels not to the touch but none of the clothes feel hot and the dryer when I open the door doesn’t feel warm.”source ↗
“The dryer did a full cycle and they were still wet, like not even dried. No loud unknown noises and dryer is spinning fine.”source ↗
“It is blowing strong out the vent outside but the air doesn’t feel hot/even that warm”source ↗
Where this came up
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