Built In Scales

Thanks, I see what the Miele spec sheet means now, they didn't elaborate on it. I also downloaded the instruction manuals (me sad)

and found that some models do it by +/- 25% increments, which is a fairly coarse scale, but as admin points out the bashing about in spin cycle probably doesn't allow installation of a finer graduation scale like +/-100g which would be completely ace.

However as I've saved £250 from upgrading to the next Miele that does what you say, I might invest in a pair of scales to weigh the laundry before loading up which gives +/- 5 grams accuracy

Would be also nice like on a dishwasher where you have a salt/Calgon tank to soften the water, a softner tank (instead of a rinse agent one) to automagically dispense the correct doses - but I guess there is no more room, as somebody would have done it by now.

The top mega expensive miele has liquid detergent dispensing I believe, but not on affordable machines.

Though each added function probably adds to the cost, and makes it harder to make a reliable machine.

My W4446 has a load/detergent button that tells me, as a percentage, the size of the load and how much detergent I need. I find this one of the most useful features of the machine.