Congratulations 20 year-old German built, whirlpool duet
These were quite good washers overall, and we have many friends and customers that have one this old that are still going. Some have barely been repaired at all. Others have had a number of repairs.
I don’t think this is unusual the whirlpool full-size front load washers that came after this are also holding up very well.
Like most good washer dryer pairs the dryer that matches these duet washers will far out of the washer, just basic physics and dealing with water.
The two big exceptions in history to the dryers outlasting The washers were Frigidaire dryers from the 70s often died long before the washers and Maytag stream of heat and halo heat dryers Often didn’t last as long as the Maytag washer people just got tired, repairing the stream of heat dryers often times.
I have one of these German built KitchenAid proline washers and while I’m quite happy with its performance overall I’m glad that it’s in the outdoor laundry room because it’s always been a frustrating machine to watch these duets. They have too much trouble balancing and they keep timing out to a longer cycle time. We sold a pair of these to my former partner and he still has them. The washer was only repaired once the dryer never but it used to be so frustrating to do laundry and because it would say 11 minutes to go and you’d come back 20 minutes later and it was still trying to balance made it very frustrating to get things done around the house But with mine it’s outdoors I don’t pay any attention to it, the only other problem with this machine was the tangling of jeans and long sleeve shirts, so I just don’t wash anything but towels and such in it.
Overall, my front load three year-old Speed Queen washer is superior, it never has trouble balancing it never extends its cycle time and virtually no tangling.
My last service call Friday evening was a German Maytag duet, the little plastic piece that hits the power button broke, and you have to take the control panel apart and take the broken button out so you can take a pencil with an eraser and hit the button manually this is one of many common problems on these German duets. They had really bad plastic Parts. Other common problems were bad, drain pumps, bad motor boards, bad inlet valves, but there’s never been a washing machine made that didn’t have some problems eventually so overall I would rate the German duets as a very good washer, certainly far better than the Maytag built duets.
John L
These were quite good washers overall, and we have many friends and customers that have one this old that are still going. Some have barely been repaired at all. Others have had a number of repairs.
I don’t think this is unusual the whirlpool full-size front load washers that came after this are also holding up very well.
Like most good washer dryer pairs the dryer that matches these duet washers will far out of the washer, just basic physics and dealing with water.
The two big exceptions in history to the dryers outlasting The washers were Frigidaire dryers from the 70s often died long before the washers and Maytag stream of heat and halo heat dryers Often didn’t last as long as the Maytag washer people just got tired, repairing the stream of heat dryers often times.
I have one of these German built KitchenAid proline washers and while I’m quite happy with its performance overall I’m glad that it’s in the outdoor laundry room because it’s always been a frustrating machine to watch these duets. They have too much trouble balancing and they keep timing out to a longer cycle time. We sold a pair of these to my former partner and he still has them. The washer was only repaired once the dryer never but it used to be so frustrating to do laundry and because it would say 11 minutes to go and you’d come back 20 minutes later and it was still trying to balance made it very frustrating to get things done around the house But with mine it’s outdoors I don’t pay any attention to it, the only other problem with this machine was the tangling of jeans and long sleeve shirts, so I just don’t wash anything but towels and such in it.
Overall, my front load three year-old Speed Queen washer is superior, it never has trouble balancing it never extends its cycle time and virtually no tangling.
My last service call Friday evening was a German Maytag duet, the little plastic piece that hits the power button broke, and you have to take the control panel apart and take the broken button out so you can take a pencil with an eraser and hit the button manually this is one of many common problems on these German duets. They had really bad plastic Parts. Other common problems were bad, drain pumps, bad motor boards, bad inlet valves, but there’s never been a washing machine made that didn’t have some problems eventually so overall I would rate the German duets as a very good washer, certainly far better than the Maytag built duets.
John L
