What is your favorite modern top load washer (outside of Speed Queen or traditional designed washers)

[whirlpool862]

What’s your favorite modern top load washer (it cannot be any traditional wash design) and it must be a washer made in 2006-present. Is your favorite the VMW, The HydroWave, the newer style GE’s, the stackable GE’s, the Samsung top loads, the LG top loads, the Mideas, or the Frigidaire agitub washer.

 

[Chetlaham]

If I had to choose, the porcelain tub dual action agitator analog pressure switch VMW washers. Eddie I believe has such a model.

 

[whirlpool862]

If I had to choose, the porcelain tub dual action agitator analog pressure switch VMW washers. Eddie I believe has such a model.

I like those too. Straight vein models also weren’t bad. Straight vein agitators actually work quite well on VMW’s. Some later models had the transducer but had a load size option (WTW4800BQ), those units were fine also. Whirlpool actually improved the balance ring for the WTW4800BQ too and was less prone to violent shaking than the previous WTW4800XQ model.

Until recently, Whirlpool was my choice for most appliances (which is why I chose my username). Whirlpool still makes a good dryer today.

Back in the day the VMWs and the VMAXs were some of the better H.E. machines. I liked the Cabrios too but Whirlpool should’ve used better bearings and seals on those. The bearings would fail a lot, and they’d eventually lock up and cause a UL code. A VMW bearing often dint fail before at least 5 years, while a Cabrio bearing often failed in less than one.

The GE’s with the optional load sizes are okay in my opinion, but for GE you have to buy the cheapest one possible. No Profiles, no stacks, no washplates.

 

[Chetlaham]

Personally buying anything but the cheapest washer today is throwing your money away. The higher end models give nothing for the price increase, many even going toward a nasty impeller. I think all but one model washer is now is actually an impellar. The post no longer means anything. Its sad how people fall for prosthetics.

 

[DADoES]

Fisher & Paykel, which are no longer on the US market but were during your stated timeframe from 2006 until sometime into 2013 or a bit later.

 

[panasonicvac]

Kenmore Oasis in pacific blue. They had either a agitator or a washplate.

 

[foraloysius]

A European toploader like this AEG.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

What’s your favorite modern top load washer (it cannot be any traditional wash design) and it must be a washer made in 2006-present. Is your favorite the VMW, The HydroWave, the newer style GE’s, the stackable GE’s, the Samsung top loads, the LG top loads, the Mideas, or the Frigidaire agitub washer.

I'd say the newest GE's.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

Personally buying anything but the cheapest washer today is throwing your money away. The higher end models give nothing for the price increase, many even going toward a nasty impeller. I think all but one model washer is now is actually an impellar. The post no longer means anything. Its sad how people fall for prosthetics.

That so-called removable agitator is a lie. It just massages your clothes. Period. I want them to turn over. PERIOD!!!!

 

[whirlpool862]

That so-called removable agitator is a lie. It just massages your clothes. Period. I want them to turn over. PERIOD!!!!

Yeah, the removable agitator is just an agipeller machine. Those came out in 2021.

 

[Chetlaham]

That so-called removable agitator is a lie. It just massages your clothes. Period. I want them to turn over. PERIOD!!!!

Massages? More like shredding the ones at the bottom of the impeller while the ones just sit at the top, sometimes dry. And all that stupid sensing just to make sure only a few of the garments are wet. Once upon a time users could choose their own water level and it went just above the clothes.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

Massages? More like shredding the ones at the bottom of the impeller while the ones just sit at the top, sometimes dry. And all that stupid sensing just to make sure only a few of the garments are wet. Once upon a time users could choose their own water level and it went just above the clothes.

I expect my clothes to be slightly under the water. An inch to just touching is enough.

 

[Chetlaham]

I expect my clothes to be slightly under the water. An inch to just touching is enough.

Indeed, you know everything is submerged and you know everything will be washed.

 

[thatwasherguy]

My favorite of the modern-style TL’ers…

Would definitely have to be the agitator Hydrowave. Yes, they were very junky machines in almost every possible way (I especially hate the design of making the motor and control board as one), but I’m strangely drawn to the styling of the ‘mechanical’ control Hotpoint models for whatever reason. I also feel that they washed better than a lot of what was being sold at the time, at least before they started breaking down. If given the choice, I would have the Hotpoint HTWP1400F1WW, with the power rinse (deep rinse) switch always thrown to the ‘on’ position, modified with a non-temperature regulating valve, and the water level screw turned up a bit to allow for utilization of the full 3.7 cubic foot tub. However, I certainly wouldn’t want to use one as a daily driver, just as a novelty item every now and then.

Thatwasherguy.

 

[jaybird14]

Fisher & Paykel, which are no longer on the US market but were during your stated timeframe from 2006 until sometime into 2013 or a bit later.

Never had one but every time I watch the videos of them, particularly of the AquaSmart impeller models, I’m impressed by the wash action. Always wanted one for myself but alas