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LAUNDRY PROBLEM oil type stains magically appear in my wash?

Ok so this has been periodically happening for years but not until now do I DEMAND and answer ;) I will wash my clothes with like colors follow al instructions dry the clothing promptly and at least once per month do i take something out of the dryer and it has oil type stains on it. It is my clothes as well as the kids I dont know what the mysterious substance is not do i know how it got on the clothes or in the wash. I have washed the machine with bleach ran hot water only through t etc. to clean but to no avail.....OIL!! please help

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  • 1 decade ago
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    its probably off the washer s motor..........have it checked my a serviceman

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The oil stains may be coming from your dryer. Try cleaning the inside of the drum throughly and see if this will help.

  • 1 decade ago

    Do the stains come out when you rewash? If so it may be fabric softener staining, happened to me alot when i was living in apartments using laundry mats... I thought it was coming off my hubbys clothes so i started washing his seperate, turned out i was just stuffing it too full lol.. the shame....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I too was frustrated with those grease looking spots. It was always on shirts like Polo's. I thought it was something in my wash until one day I washed a brand new one, and it came out with that same old greasy looking spots. Someone told me that my temperature setting was too hot. I changed it to a less "heat cycle", and that DID work for me so far. Good luck!

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    No. Stains do no longer purely seem on a rug. perhaps somebody spilled something? yet heavily, in case you think of a stain can basically seem out of nowhere, then you quite're loopy... the two that, or your place is haunted. i think of your place could desire to be haunted.

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