LG WM3431, - Uneven spin & design doesn't seem to support any lint filter!

[Jon Stein]

A repair man came out to check uneven spin on an LG WM3431HS and showed me all the broken screws securing the M101 cover of the heater elements/blower motor to the drum. Sears Parts direct SAYS they can supply that M101 part for $23!
 

He jerry-rigged the M101 part back in place and it has worked properly for about 6 months before starting the uneven spin again.  But I thought I caught him saying [through a strong language barrier] that the unit has so much wrong with it that it cant be fixed.
 

I havent yet bought the new part because I cant get my repairer out to put the new part in but it doesn't exactly look difficult. What i dont know is whether the broken screw mounts caused the uneven spin or did the uneven spin cause the broken screw mounts?? I wonder if I can rely on it working after the jerry-rigging to think that I can simply buy the part and put it in OR does anyone think that the screw mounts on the M101 part will just break again if I do?

Of special interest is that I discovered that I can get the machine to work properly simply by spinning at normal or slow spin mode! The imbalance only occurs in automatic (FAST) spin mode??

ALSO:  when this unit was about 3 years old I found out the hard way about there being no lint filter in the 3431, and I spent numerous hours cleaning out the whole inside of the machine of the gigantic amount of lint which builds up all over the white plastic 'bottle', the dryer blower and the  heating elements.  Is there no way of getting some sort of lint filter into the 3431 please? I am getting DHe error messages 15 minutes into the dry cycle again, which, it seems cannot be re-started (it goes straight into DHe again)

But amazingly, I have discovered that the dryer WILL go through to the end of its cycle and dry reasonably well if only I run wash-without-dry and THEN dry-without-wash as two separate cycles!

[Jon Stein]

C'mon guys,  does NO ONE think this sounds like a main bearing gone or on the way out? (coupled with lint build-up on a model which should never have been let loose on the public)

Is the reliability of this unit the reason why LG had to discontinue their technical support rather than acknowledge that a dryer which blows lint all over its whole internal area, - because it DOESN'T HAVE a filter is a massive sales/marketing mistake?