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I have a PE error on my LG washing machine. The first bad tube video has "PE Error | Error Code | LG Top Load Washing Machine"

So you click on it, and it's a Woman suggesting you unplug it, call a repairman and wait for it to be fixed. That's it, literally less than 30 seconds to say so.
Probably the most useless video I have ever seen. People who call technicians, don't watch Badtube videos.
Which brings me to something else. It seems appliances are made these days by the same people who make those "Life Hack" videos where they make something useless out of trash. Then look all smug and happy with themselves as they use a fan made out of Plastic bottles, glue sticks and a cassette motor.

What a bunch of cheap shit they put in appliances these days. This washer is barely two months old, and already giving me fits.

So I just fixed it, the videos I did find, said one of three ways to fix it.
1)Unplug it and wait 10 seconds and plug it back in. (The old reboot the router trick)
2)Replace the pressure sensor switch. (This was the option I was thinking I was going to have to do)
3)A wire breaks and needs to be resplice.

Now number 3 is the miracle break, there's no rhyme or reason for this sort of breakage. As I watched the video on it, I had questions, like "well what broke it? There's no way that's my issue, nobody has been in there to break the wire." Now I'm not saying the wire came lose from a lug, or solder joint, or the wire cap fell off. I'm saying the wire actually breaks and has to be skint back and resplice. That's exactly what happened with my Washer. The video I watched the white wire was broke, my washer the green wire was broke. Here's what baffles me, there isn't any mechanical parts that could snag the wire and snap it like that. The wire is about 22 gauge multi strand, very fine wire to begin with, but still, how does this happen.

So I stripped some wire back and twisted it back together and tapped it back up and viola it's back to scrubbing my shorts.

What a brain teaser that was/is. I vow to figure this out, I can't just rest leaving it at that. I may return it if that's the sort of performance I can expect out of LG we paid over $1200 for it just a day or two after the fire. Ironically our Samsung washer we had, broke on us the day before the house fire. The day after we bought this new washing machine and ran every stich of cloth in the house through it to remove smoke. It has done less than 20 or 30 cycles up until now.

Tenpoundbass says

I may return it if that's the sort of performance I can expect out of LG we paid over $1200 for it just a day or two after the fire.

In about 5 years, if that LG is a top loader, you will be replacing the suspension rods. Luckily that is easy and cheap.

Metal fatigue. That wire has to bend as part of it's design. Static wires don't break. Not possible.

Why are you fixing a 2 month old machine yourself? The bumper-to-bumper warranty on LG appliances is at least 1 year.

RWSGFY says

Why are you fixing a 2 month old machine yourself? The bumper-to-bumper warranty on LG appliances is at least 1 year.

By time I set up an appointment for a LG technician to come out to look at it. Then for him to show up, take it apart, troubleshoot and find the damaged/defective part.
Then say he doesn't have one on the truck, so reschedule, wait for the part, and the technician to come back out and install it. In the meantime we would have to haul our laundry to the laundromat for the days/weeks/months it would have taken for all of that to play out. Or he may have took it apart and found the broken wire and fixed it on the spot. After I waited for him to show up.

I can over night most parts on these machines, like I said before these machines look like they were engineered by the same South Asian Arts and Crafts life hack Youtubers you see on Youtube. The shit is so cheap, most small parts are under $20, and any major components are under $200. If I had my druthers, I would have a 1970's washing machine made out of 30 gauge steel, not a HE machine. But unfortunately all we have to deal with is crap. Crap at various price ranges. You can buy fancy expensive crap, or cheap flimsy crap, but it's all crap.

Why throw a crappy service call into the mix? I don't need the scheduling and parts aggravation.

HeadSet says

In about 5 years, if that LG is a top loader, you will be replacing the suspension rods. Luckily that is easy and cheap.

That's all that was wrong with the Samsung machine we got rid of. It was about 5 years old or so. The balancing rods went out, I was going to fix it, but the problem I always hated about that machine. Is it takes so damn long to cycle through a load of laundry. You set it on normal and the timer says it will take 57 minutes. But come back 30 minutes later, and the timer says it has 50 minutes left. A load sometimes took two hours to complete. The LG rips right through each load, and the time that starts out is the time it takes to finish.
The balancing rods are cheap enough, and an easy enough fix. If I have that problem down the road, I'll just replace them on the LG.

Hopefully the broken wire was just a fluke and it shouldn't happen again.

stfu says

Metal fatigue. That wire has to bend as part of it's design. Static wires don't break. Not possible.

These are static wires. The best I can deduce is the cover of the top control panel, pushes down and snaps into place. My guess is the wire got caught between two plastic pieces that sheered or pinched the wire and it was just barely making contact until the wire memory finally recoiled away removing what ever miniscule contact it was making.
Which is probably why LG's official video on it states. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" don't open it up and look at, you'll get upset and return it as a piece of junk. Call a technician so he can come out and give you some cockamamie reason for it.