Nine out of ten times it's the belt. The tenth time deserves an honest conversation. Both start from the same written number.
Spins with no resistance: belt. Won't budge: jam or seized bearing. Either way, that one observation shortens the visit.
A hum that clicks off after seconds is the motor protecting itself — stop retrying, each attempt heats it further.
On newer panels a lock icon freezes everything. Hold the marked button five seconds before assuming mechanical failure.
The front panel comes off, the belt path tells its story in about three minutes, and the written all-in price follows. A belt-and-idler set sits at the bottom of the dryer range — $235 territory — and finishes the same visit, including a vacuum of the accumulated lint the open cabinet exposes.
If the motor has genuinely seized, you get the number and the context: motor cost against machine age and replacement price. We sell the repair only when the math defends it — an all-in price on a bad idea is still a bad idea.
Almost certainly — that squeal was the idler pulley bearing announcing the belt's future. The good news: the noisy-first version is the cheap version, belt and idler as a set, and the drum usually shows no damage. Same-visit fix on nearly every platform.
Handy owners sometimes can — routing the belt around the idler blind is the annoying part. Where DIY goes wrong is stopping at the belt: if the idler or a roller caused the failure, the new belt is on borrowed time. Our version includes the wear set and a tested, warrantied result.
For a belt job, usually yes — it's the cheapest repair in the book on a machine class that lasts. For a motor on a builder-grade unit that age, often no, and we'll say so at the diagnostic stage for $95 rather than after a teardown.
Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Send the symptom or the code exactly as the display shows it. A weekday callback confirms your window, and the van loads for your machine before it leaves Kennewick.
The all-in price covers diagnosis, labor and parts. It doesn't move after work starts.
$95 for the visit and diagnosis is the whole bill — if the fix costs too much or the machine isn't worth it, that's all you owe.
From $235 all-in, most closed the same visit. Call (509) 841-9102 or send the form.