could be the drive belt,but my guess is the carbon brushes in the motor,its cheap to fix but you must take the very long code on the machine to dealer or take the motor to obtain the proper brushes,as they use a few diff types,unplug machine b4 doing any work,
dont just switch it off at wall socket
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