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Yes. These were one of the last WCI Frigidaires and were horrible machines.

You can try the suspension rods first as those can also fail, but on these bigger VMWs (like the WTW5000DW), it’s often the tub that fails.

Bad tub bushing. Very common failure on these machines. Neu has an appliance part for this but it can be tedious to put in. Unfortunately, this is a VERY common failure mode and it causes these machines to shake violently on the spin cycle. This is caused by friction, out of balance loads, and...

In fact, your Samsung top loader on average has better reliability than both a HydroWave and a Model T.

I know there were some older kenmores using the belt drive system. Kenmore was one of the first brands to ever be manufactured by whirlpool (except Whirlpool itself). The Whirlpool belt drives were great machines (not referring to VMWs)

The GE model Ts or WCI Frigidaire just didn’t clean as well as a Speed Queen, older Maytag, or a Whirlpool direct drive. Both the WCI Frigidaire and Model T GE were bad machines, and when they failed they had to get scraped. Frigidaire also made a terrible high efficiency system with the agitub...

The reason why violent shaking made the HydroWaves or Model Ts sound worse when agitating was because broken tub straps were VERY common on those machines.

The model Ts and HydroWaves were absolutely terrible machines and shouldn’t be mentioned. The Kenmores, Whirlpools, and the WP built direct drive Maytags (2006-2011) were great machines. The Whirlpool/Kenmore direct drives from the 80s to early 2010s were great machines. The model T and even...

Many kenmore was made by Whirlpool Many of them were direct drive and later VMW. Towards the end of Sears, Kenmore washers used the VMW and VMAX platforms.

All HydroWaves were junk They typically only lasted a few years, and when you search “HydroWave” you can see a fair amount of videos of them malfunctioning.

Direct drives were still good I do agree that the newer ones were a bit worse, but they were still better than any VMW machine. My uncle has a Maytag Centennial direct drive from 2009 that’s 16 years old and has had zero issues at Al.

All Whirlpool direct drives were good All of them were good machines and lasted 15 years on average.

HydroWave was junk All the people in my family I know have had premature failures with them, as well as my friends. There’s a reason why you don’t find as many HydroWaves as before, it’s because they keep breaking down. HydroWaves and the pre-HydroWaves were bad machines and were unreliable...

The Maytag merger was not the first sign The Whirltag direct drives were great machines

For a long time I’ve been recommending Whirlpool machines of VMW and VMAX platforms but I don’t recommend them anymore because I’ve been seeing that the newest models have a massive control board problem. The lower end ones have issues with the pressure system within the board causing it to...

You had bad luck. I’ve never seen a top loading LG with bad bearings and most of them last a while. And the older VMW machines were decent if loaded properly. The newest ones are worse. That’s a 2010 model so that’s 14 years old, older VMWs seem pretty reliable and when they break they are...

HydroWaves were junk Those were probably the worst washers GE has ever made. They were very unreliable and didn’t wash well.

The Whirlpool-built Maytag direct drives were great The Whirlpool-built Maytag direct drives were great and were just as good as the Kenmore or Whirlpool counterparts. The only difference was that they had a different control panel, but other than that they were Whirlpool direct drives. The...

Not really an ad but this video really bothers me. The Hydrowave was NOT a good machine and was one of the worst washers out there. It was not an improvement to their awful model T. They were NOT a new design, they were essentially just Model Ts without a transmission and with a variable speed...

It seems to run fine other than the fact it has bad bearings.