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pinksapphire
Posts:54
 | | 22 Sep 2008 5:02 PM |
| Not sure if this is right place or not, but thought I'd put it out there...
When we moved into our first house we splurged on our washing machine, we ended up choosing a Maytag front load washer, we chose the top of the line model at the time, and were assured that it would last at least a decade considering it was just for light use (two adults).
Fast forward 4yrs, our wizz bang washing machine is flooding our laundry, the casing has somehow cracked? We call and report the problem and are basically told that it wasn't worth getting our washing machine repaired, and that we should just buy another one!
This is not the kind of response you would expect when something goes wrong with a major appliance.
Has anyone else had any issues with Whirlpool/ Maytag? | | | |
| Poweranna
Posts:40
| | 25 Sep 2008 8:42 AM |
| | We also had to get a new washing machine after 2 years.They dont make things like the used to.I cant remember what make it was but it was a front loader (I prefer the front loaders there great with water) but I took my sisters old washing machine top loader when she was told after 7 years it had had it .We actually got a repairer out and the 700 dollars to fix it was 100 dollars and we had for another 8 years.Then we finally got the front loader. We have a Bosh front loader now and its been a year so fingers crossed.Good Luck | | | |
| ywalmsley
Posts:1
| | 14 Sep 2010 1:04 PM |
| | Yeah, I've had my Maytag fixed a few times at a cost of 200-300 dollars each time. The rubber on the inside is awefull and the front plastic where you press the buttons has cracked. Even the soap dispenser broke at two places. But I must add that I've had it for four or five years now and it is being used a fair bit. | | | |
| Fishpus
Posts:1
| | 25 Mar 2011 5:53 PM |
| Mine is a MAF 1060 and is not yet 4 years old. It wouldn't drain after washing. I cleaned the filter, back flushed the drain hose and still it would not drain. I thought it must be the drain pump or drain valve so I searched the net. The parts are not available. I called the local repair agent and they immediately advised me the cost of $110 per hour. I ask then to call me back about parts prices. Unsurprisingly, they didn't.
Anyhow I decided for $110 I could have more of a go. I removed the filter (which is supposed to catch coins and such) and the hoses connected to it. The one from the washing bowl to the filter had two coins stuck inside. Remove coins reassemble and voila - working great. The repairs are an obvious ripoff. Not to mention the design which doesn't do what it is supposed to. | | | |
| TruthfulLies
Posts:1
| | 09 Dec 2011 9:02 PM |
| Some earlier washing machines accept an advantage of application bisected the bulk of water, extenuative 30 liters a load. As an added bonus, clothes appear out cleaner. The armpit mentions that machines bogus aural the aftermost three years already set the half-capacity as the absence option, but I accept my seven-year-old Electra works this way as well.
How do clothes get cleaner aback application beneath water? It turns out that bushing the boom of the apparatus is unnecessary. As continued as the clothes are wet, the agitation does the job, and better. Loose baptize alone gets in the way, and additionally creates a charge for added detergent.
The accepted baptize crisis in Israel makes this a acceptable time to revisit the adept agitation of American immigrants over whether a top-loading Maytag with the aperture on top is bigger to a European front-loader, accepted in Israel. The top-loader works by bushing its ample boom with water, and a axial advocate spins to apple-pie the clothes. Accepted front-loaders don’t charge an agitator, so added clothes can fit into the abate drum. The clothes beat as the boom in a front-loading apparatus moves aback and forth, capitalizing on gravity.
Seven years ago, my again 15-year-old Maytag gave out a few canicule afore Rosh Hashanah, and I bought the Electra for a amount commensurable to a new Maytag motor. I’ve had alone accessory aliment so far, but it’s abundantly a amount of chance. They are declared to aftermost about bristles years.
More money and energy-saving laundry tips:
Don’t ablution it it if it’s not dirty. Use smocks and aprons to assure clothes.
Consistently ample up the machine. Ample a advanced loader to the top, axis the boom to accomplish added room. With a approved aeon (lower numbers) the apparatus can abounding added tightly, as continued as closing it doesn’t put accent on the door. Be affable with the aperture as the hinges are a anemic point, as are the knobs. Aback you abandoned out the wet clothes, there should be abandoned amplitude in the middle.
Accept abundant clothes. If you are consistently accomplishing a amount because you run out of socks, buy added socks (or assignment out a arrangement to accumulate them organized). You should accept abundant clothes to accept article to abrasion aback you are washing, additional article added in case of emergency.
Don’t accept too abounding clothes. They tend to abatement on the attic and crave rewashing, and it’s harder to acquisition what you need.
Give ancestors associates their own characteristic towels. They are added acceptable to reclaim them.
Aback visiting accompany action to accompany your own sheets, or a sleeping bag. Take the bedding you aloof took off the bed for changing.
“Grey water” from the ablution can be reused for laundry. Accumulate a brace of buckets in the battery and cascade the acclimated baptize into the apparatus through the aperture for bactericide while the baptize is running. I’ve noticed that my apparatus adds baptize to the aboriginal aeon in intervals. I add baptize until the baptize stops running, and try to be about for the additional accession of baptize as well.
Use a minimum of detergent. If your laundry smells like bactericide afterwards washing, you’re apparently application too much. The added soap additionally clogs up your machine.
Skip the bolt softener. Or use less.
Treat stains appropriate away.
Hang laundry to dry.
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