Australian friends hepl please - SIMPSON washer

[gorenje]

Hello, I need your opinion. I have an opportunity to buy an Australian top-loading washing machine. It's a SIMPSON Ezi Set. Don't ask me how an Australian washer end up in Slovenia. I would like to know how good and reliable are those machines. Are they made in AU / NZ or China?

here is the link with 2 fotos of the washer

Thank you for the hepl!
Ingemar

http://www.bolha.com/pralni-stroj/pralni-stroj-oglas1272743003

 

[simpsomatic]

Simpson/FisherPaykel

Sorry my friend, piece of junk. Goodness knows how it ended up over there. Full of plastic, the agitator is a dead give away for F/P. For several years Simpson, Hoover and Westinghouse put their own name on these F/P machines. Some made in Aus and some in NZ. You can see them lined up at the second hand stores in Melbourne all in various states of repair or disrepair. If it works it will only be until it stops working, wash action tragic. Good luck.

 

[laundromat]

Kinda/sorta looks like a Frigi-Scare.

 

[ronhic]

I can't confirm that it is related in any way to a Fisher and Paykel, which I doubt given that one is the others fiercest competitor, but they are not particularly good at cleaning and are certainly not gentle on anything...

The link is to a consumer review site - owners placing their opinions....

http://www.productreview.com.au/showitem.php?item_id=37099

 

[brisnat81]

Hi Ingemar,

That is quite a new machine, but those are made in Asia, not Australia.

They're not that much different to the earlier ones in how they operate, but these Asian made ones do seem to fail within a few years, rather than lasting 10-15 years as the Aussie ones did.

Its in no way related to F&P, it's based on the Electrolux Global TL design

 

[mrb627]

F&P

I thought the F&P machines were relatively bulletproof.

Malcolm

 

[gorenje]

Thank you guys! 150 EUR is not so litle for a kinda "second hand" washer which hase traveled such a long way to get to us and only God knows how it was handled during the trip.
I was thinking to get it to have some fun with it but now I think I rather buy myself a new cell phone for Christmas.
Thank you
Ingemar