Another exploded LG WaveForce...

[foraloysius]

I guess it is the other way around too. For those who bought an American machine overhere in the Netherlands, it is hard to get service and the costs are sky high. I guess it makes sense to buy something that was manufactured on the continent where you live.

 

[laundryboy]

Rut Ro Raggy....

I have the exact set in my laundry room, I hope they dont blow up like his did..

 

[thomasortega]

@laundryboy

Just in case, If I were you, I would send a very kind email to LG asking them for a refound and I'd buy any other machine that won't blow.

If they don't refound you, ok... I'm almost sure that they will send you a reply saying that you don't need to worry because their machine is marvelous and those incidents were isolated, blah, blah, blah...

If someday your machine blows, that reply plus a good lawyer will be the same as winning the lottery. You tried to get rid of it but they insisted to keep that machine in your house.

You can guess the psychological trauma it caused when it blew. You can also guess the psychologist you have to go costs only $1000 per hour and you'll have to be treated for at least 200 years, 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, 13 months per year.

LOL i'm evil tonight!

 

[donprohel]

Evil?

Maybe you are evil, thomasortega, but yours seems to me a very sensible suggestion: does not cost a dime, but might be useful

 

[thomasortega]

Yes, Evil...
If I lived in the U.S. I'd buy at least one or two of those... maybe 10 or more... and wait for the explosion LOL

Eeeeeeeeeeeasy money. Hahahahahhahahah

Now, that was evil, of course it was a joke and I would never do something anti-ethical like that.

 

[philr]

It's hard to believe all these new washers from different brands self-destruct so quickly! After watching these videos, I think if Frigidaire reintroduced their cheap Agi-Tub washers today, they'd probably have one of the top rated washers in terms of durability!  Well, maybe not but I honestly can't complain about mine! It still works like new after almost 40 years (but probably very low usage!). And has anyone seen an old washer (even those with high spin speeds) self-destruct like that?

 

[combo52]

Exploding Washers

I was talking to Kevin the other day and he passed on some good information from another member as to why this may be happening. Apparently things like mattress pads often have a plastic layer in them which holds water as the machine starts to spin, so the computer thinks that the load is balanced as it accelerates. Then at some point in the acceleration the water escapes when the basket is spinning at a high speed probably well over 800 RPMs and the basket is suddenly badly unbalanced, this would be similar to dropping a cinder block in a spinning washer. Some of you may have seen the video where someone was abusing an old FL washer by doing just that and you saw what happened.

 

Maybe Robert will loan us an old Frigidaire Unimatic so we can test this in an older washer, while a Unimatic wouldn't fly apart as dramatically as a new LG my guess is it wouldn't be pretty and the washer and outer tub would likely be badly damaged.

 

[mikeske]

I am glad that my wife insisted that we buy a old style top loader Speed Queen and not one of these new fangled exploders. My wife looked cloasly at the new style but did not want to have the hassle of another HE machine after the misadventure of the Samsung-Maytag Neptune that we had.

The whole thing is the engineering on the new style washers leaves something to be desired. The question is really why the unbalanced sensor, the computers programming should have caught the unbalance condition.

Engineering something like that should not be what we call in the aviation field tombstone engineering, but when someone is serously hurt or killed then the lawsuits will happen and then the companies will be paying out a lot of money, I actually am surprised that LG has not had a class action lawsuit against them for the the exploding washers.

the companies are building these machines with huge capacities and then saying they are not responsible and acting like the folks who are using them are to blame. Build something out of plastic and not exporing the worst case in testing is not the way to do it.

 

[thomasortega]

The plastic isn't the guilty.

The kind of plastic plus stupid RPM and dumb engineering is!

Mueller machines are 100% made of plastic, they NEVER rust and after many tests simulating the worst situations a machine would stand in a standard home, considering the worst kind of consumers, the machine didn't blow like the LGs.

After more than 15 years on the market, their all plastic spin dryer still one of the best machines here. NEVER a consumer complained it exploded. By never i mean really never, not even a single unit.

With their new front loader is the same. The machine is designed to be safe.

 

[qualin]

Just got back from vacation...

It's a shame that youtube video was taken down.. I would have liked to have seen it.

Like Thomas said, it's not really the plastic bits that are the problem.

Instead, I do have to admit that LG seems to be making some engineering compromises so they can get larger capacities in their machines... but that's for another thread.

 

[cullennewsom]

Whirlpool Maytag washer explosion video removed

Looks like Whirlpool Maytag are DMCA abusers. Too bad no one saved it.