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title: "Washer drum bearing replacement"
description: "The big job, and the one where we say plainly whether it is worth doing. A bearing going is a rumble on spin that grows over months and eventually a"
url: "https://askomiami.support/services/washer-drum-bearing-replacement/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Asko washer drum bearing replacement

### A day's work, and an answer that differs from most makes

The machine comes apart to reach the bearing and goes back together afterwards, which is why this is quoted as a day rather than discovered halfway through one. What is different on this badge is the arithmetic: these are steel-framed machines built to a twenty-year test, so at ten or twelve years the frame, the drum, the motor and the electronics around a worn bearing are usually still sound. The seal, the shocks and the springs are renewed while everything is accessible, because going back in for them six months later costs more than the parts do.

What this involves

A day's strip-down, priced as one rather than discovered halfway

Worth doing on this make more often than on most — and we say when it is not

Seal, shocks and springs renewed with it, because they are already out

Confirm it is the bearing

Drum rocked by hand for play, spin listened to through its range, and the alternative causes of a rumble — a coin in the outer drum, a failed shock — ruled out first.

Give the honest arithmetic

What the job costs against what the machine is, its age and what else is worn. On a twelve-year-old machine with a good frame this is usually the right call, and where it is not we say so before starting.

Rebuild with the wear parts renewed

Bearings, seal, and the shocks and springs that are already accessible. Going back in for those six months later is the one outcome nobody wants.

### How do you decide it is worth doing?

Frame, drum and electronics. If any of the three is going, the bearing is the start of a sequence rather than the end of a problem, and we say so before starting — you have then paid a diagnostic for a measured answer rather than a day's labor.

### Could this have been avoided?

Often. Worn shock absorbers let the drum travel further on every spin and that travel is what takes the bearing. Nothing on the panel reports it; the test is pushing the drum and watching whether it settles or bounces.

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