Dryer is about 6 years old, even after cleaning the lint/vent as far as I can, the check vent light is on every use new house, light still illuminates, and the vent path is only about 8in through the wall.

Is there a simple sensor that can be replaced?

This might help:

https://producthelp.whirlpool....indicator%20is%20lit.

All of those have been done
Thinking it's a bad sensor

Lessee, I got a Whirlpool Cabrio Platinum (damn fancy!)

After a few months of using it, we started getting the sensor light on. I pulled the vent tube out and cleaned it and the issue went away for a few months, and now, we're back to it.

I suspect that this 'overheat' sensor is calibrated a bit on the sensitive side. Whirlpool is being cautious, no doubt, since you can manage to burn your house down with a clothes dryer, if you're stupid enough.

Now, on my dryer, if you just do a timed dry, the light does not come on.

Don't know if this applies or not. My sister has a dryer that injects steam during the permanent press cycle which supposedly causes the lint to harden and cause the vent light to illuminate. I have no personal experience as I have an old dryer with dials.

No steam cycle
Not a Platinum

Will try timed dry & see what it does.

It doesn't affect the cycle, just the light is on & on rare occasions will beep.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
Dryer is about 6 years old, even after cleaning the lint/vent as far as I can, the check vent light is on every use new house, light still illuminates, and the vent path is only about 8in through the wall.

Model number?

And are you saying you have moved since the problem started and the light still stays on?

It is a Cabrio Platinum
Model: WED8200YW0

Correct, check vent light comes on mid cycle, even after we've moved into a different house.