I'm getting a patch of black oil marks in a pattern identical to the holes in the drum? This is nto everywas but almost every other. Did here a high pitch noise a couple of weeks ago and though something like a stone/coin was loose in the drum but found nothing. Has something 'gone' outside oft he drum, resulting in this oil coming into the wash?

Angela O'Connell, April 2011

bra wire under the drum rubbing or more likely the bearings beginning to fail due to the seal giving up slowly

ck, April 2011