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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.

Your washer has bad bearings That loud noise on the spin cycle is not normal and means your bearings are bad and to fix it you’ll need to change the entire transmission. My Whirlpool WTW4900BW0 that is now 11 years old is having the same problem. You can replace it with a Speed Queen or a...

My mother (71 years old) had her 27-year-old Kenmore direct drive machine finally break, so she bought a Whirlpool WTW4955HW1 washer and WED4950HW0 electric dryer off of Facebook marketplace for $200. She said the listing said they were in new condition. But she said the washing machine was...

You’re very lucky to have a still working top loading Neptune The Maytag Neptune top load washers are rarely found to be working, and almost every top loading Neptune that’s even found is broken. Those were horribly made machines.

The older Whirlpool-built Maytags weren’t bad For a while, Whirlpool actually made direct drives under the Maytag brand, and those were reliable. In fact, I actually like those better than the Whirlpool or Kenmore branded direct drives as they sometimes have stainless steel drums. Although I...

This machine was a 2017 model year according to its serial number

I found a Whirlpool washer model WTW4816FW1 at my sister’s house, I went over the other day and i found that the washer was very loud on the spin cycle. My brother-in-law said “it’s supposed to sound like that” and that it “spins really fast”, but it’s definitely not. There is a link to a...

In my opinion, Maytag has gone bad well before Whirlpool has acquired them, and Whirlpool did NOT ruin the company, in fact they saved it. The Maytag Neptunes as well as the dependable care replacements were unreliable and terrible machines. The top loading Neptune was so unreliable that it’s...

I am wondering what washer brand seems to be the most reliable (besides Speed Queen). I’ve heard that the Samsung washing machines are very unreliable so I’m not going to include that. But out of the three manufacturers (GE, Whirlpool, Samsung). GE isn’t even their own company anymore...

They’ll only get worse, too. All of the newer Whirlpools that have the six LED lights under the timer seem to be known for this issue, but I’m not sure about the fancier ones but those had control board problems in the past where the washer would just go right into drain and complete the cycle...

I have four friends with newer whirlpool washing machines (WTW4950HW3, WTW4955HW3, WTW4816FW3, and WTW4957PW0), all continuously draining due to bad control boards. I hate how Whirlpool has declined in recent years. Three of them are 2023 machines, the WTW4957PW0 is a 2024 model. My Whirlpool...