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For a brief period, Whirlpool made non-HE VMW’s with a load size selector and a true agitator. Those machines used a full tub of water, but they did use spray rinsing and they did have temperature regulations. This type of VMW was used on lower end models made from 2010 to 2015 and were made...

What’s the best residential Whirlpool VMW washer to buy?

And older BOL VMWs had a water level switch, and they weren’t high efficiency. But those were discontinued due to some 2015 regulations. So now all VMWs use auto sensing to save water. The HydroWaves were so problematic and most broke down at just 5 years. When the HydroWave came out techs...

I have one of those VMW Impellers from 2014, and I heard that these older ones actually have decent blooming since mine has the tall impeller. Mine is WTW4900BW0. The flat impeller versions (like the WTW5000DW) I heard didn’t clean as well. I do think the dual action agitator models do clean...

What do you think is the best modern washer to buy outside of Speed Queen?

Lately one person has been defending GE’s HydroWaves and their Model-T machines, but they were terrible machines. I’d much rather even use a Samsung machine than a GE HydroWave, at least when a Samsung gets off balance it’ll redistribute, while a HydroWave will destroy itself before of the lack...

They were labeled as Maytag, Kenmore and Whirlpool. Example of a floating tub Whirlpool Cabrio.

This was a Whirlpool design that came out in 2006 and was discontinued in 2015 and long replaced with the VMAX. I own a VMW and I never owned the F&P machines. They were sold under the Bravos and Cabrio names, just like how many VMW and VMAX machines were. Those names aren’t used anymore on the...

I made a thread about this.

I own a VMW myself and I’ve had it for 11 years and the bearings only started getting noisy. My machine is a 2014 Whirlpool WTW4900BW0 washer. If you take care of them right they last while, but all the ones outlined in this post are the newer ones and those seem to be worse overall than older...

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.