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The brand of this motor was a “Welling’ which I’ve never heard of and turns out it’s just a Chinese brand of motors appliance brands tend to use, I believe Midea, Frigidaire, and possibly even Samsung might use this motor brand on some of their washers as well. Although not sure about Samsung...

Got in an Amana NTW4516FW3 top loader (made on 36th week of 2019), they said it stopped spinning their clothes out. Thought it maybe be a shift actuator, the pump, or even a locked up gearcase, but it turns out the motor has locked up. Spin the drum and heard weird noise. Took it out and spun...

Got in a Whirlpool WED4800XQ3 dryer, squeaking when drying. Dryer repair. As for washers, Lots of failing gearcases and F3E1s today.

Fixing it about now. Searching for the boneyard. Time to save the control panel off the 2021 unit (WTW4816FW2) and put it on this. I do have another one, a Whirlpool WTW4815EW1 washer (made on 12th week of 2016) with a broken tub and an Amana NTW4605EW0 (made on 46th week of 2015) also with a...

Interesting, usually these constantly drain when the boards go bad, but their Inglis washer instead had cycle issues. Interesting failure mode. I just got in a WTW4816FW3 today from September, 2024 that’s constantly draining and throwing F3E1.

Because they are better than Whirlpools these days in my opinion. Some of the GE’s and older Whirlpool VMW’s drain constantly too but not as common as these new Whirlpools.

I don’t know. I’ve been getting so many of these new VMWs that do this. And so many other people report it. I see them all over social media and the internet. I most commonly get the 2023 and early 2024 models but this one was a later 2024 model.

I know I posted things about Whirlpool washers multiple times, but I don’t think I’ve did a full discussion on how much Whirlpool has declined, even during the VMW and VMAX era. Whirlpool has massively declined recently in most ways. They also made the balance ring smaller on their VMW and VMAX...

I had a wonderful Kenmore direct drive from the 90s that thing lasted a long time and it died in 2019.

Direct drives do not use ball bearings and it’s still more reliable than the VMW that I replaced

I had this same exact machine, only lasted about 5 years. It had the bearing and hub go and I’ve junked it and a got used direct drive Maytag Centennial MVWC500VW1. And since it had a bad bearing I wasn’t going to put a hub on it I decided that it was ready to go. I was originally going to buy...

And after that day I even did a gearcase on a Maytag MVWX700XL2 with bad bearings, don't usually do gearcases on VMWs but the owner of it wanted it fixed as she said “if I change the washer I’ll need to change the dryer. If you fix it It’ll work like brand new and it still works it’s just loud”...

I just did a cabrio bearing job a few days ago. Don't remember the model.

My favorite washer is personally the Maytag dependable care following the direct drives from Whirlpool. I also like Speed Queen washers and the GE Filter Flos. I now own a direct drive and it’s a great machine I’d still love to get a dependable care. The reason why my username is...

This was my favorite washing machine of all time, even better than the Whirlpool direct drives. They lasted at least 25 years if properly maintained, much longer than any new machine. They also had great cleaning action. They cleaned well but weren’t as aggressive as direct drives. Maytag...

I was originally going to buy a Speed Queen TC5 but that was too expensive so I got a used direct drive instead. Still a great machine.

The Speed Queen TC5 is actually a good modern washer but I can’t have an opinion on the TR series but I’ve worked on some. Not too sure about how good the TR is but that also seems well built. Speed Queen washers are built like tanks but are pretty expensive and they will last 25 years on...

LG fridges are junk, I keep trashing them for bad compressors. They are so unreliable. Even a Samsung fridge is better than an LG at this point. If you want a reliable fridge, just get a Whirlpool, GE, or Frigidaire. Get anything but LG.

I have one of the last direct drives. I owned a 1990s Kenmore direct drive before the VMW and that was a great machine too.

I had to deal with my horrible Whirlpool VMW WTW5000DW3 washer for 6 years, the bearing is bad and eventually the hub went out. I decided to get a new washer instead of fixing this one. It had the impeller and didn’t wash great. It also had spray rinsing. The bearing went out and eventually the...