I owned a Whirlpool Cabrio and I had no problem with how it cleaned at all. It filled with more than 5 gals of water and surprisingly moved the clothes around pretty well too. The problem I had with this machine, and it was a deal breaker for me was that it would unbalance on loads with jeans and towels, but there was no signal that it had become unbalanced. Instead the washer would refill with rinse water and attempt to balance the load, which it would never manage to do. It would go through this exercise of futility, over, and over and over again until I noticed something was wrong and manually rebalanced the load.
My washer is upstairs and before I noticed this problem happening every time I washed a load of towels and jeans it took over 2 hours for the load to finish and I only realized why after I did some investigation and monitored the machine when it went into the spin-drain after the wash portion of the cycle. So from then on I had to race up the stairs every time I washed a load of jeans and towels when the first spin-drain was supposed to begin. If I’d wanted to babysit a washing machine I’d have a wringer washer and get a weeks worth of laundry done in 60-75 mins of hands on work.
That GD Cabrio was one of the worst washers I ever owned, but not because it didn’t clean well, but because is wasted water and my time. I was thrilled to see it leave our home forever.
The washer that I did own that didn’t use an adequate amount of water was an LG FL, and that was the WORST washer I ever owned! The normal cycle would wash for 24 mins with only about 2” of water in the bottom of the tub. A full load of wash never became saturated with water during the wash portion of the cycle. And as if if that wasn’t bad enough, this machine REFUSED to go into a spin with heavy towels, it would literally run for 2+ hours and never spin, just endlessly hunt for that “sweet spot” to begin the spin, but it never found it. I wouldn’t have an LG washer if you gave it to me and paid me to use it! J-U-N-K!!!!
Eddie
[this post was last edited: 3/26/2023-17:36]
My washer is upstairs and before I noticed this problem happening every time I washed a load of towels and jeans it took over 2 hours for the load to finish and I only realized why after I did some investigation and monitored the machine when it went into the spin-drain after the wash portion of the cycle. So from then on I had to race up the stairs every time I washed a load of jeans and towels when the first spin-drain was supposed to begin. If I’d wanted to babysit a washing machine I’d have a wringer washer and get a weeks worth of laundry done in 60-75 mins of hands on work.
That GD Cabrio was one of the worst washers I ever owned, but not because it didn’t clean well, but because is wasted water and my time. I was thrilled to see it leave our home forever.
The washer that I did own that didn’t use an adequate amount of water was an LG FL, and that was the WORST washer I ever owned! The normal cycle would wash for 24 mins with only about 2” of water in the bottom of the tub. A full load of wash never became saturated with water during the wash portion of the cycle. And as if if that wasn’t bad enough, this machine REFUSED to go into a spin with heavy towels, it would literally run for 2+ hours and never spin, just endlessly hunt for that “sweet spot” to begin the spin, but it never found it. I wouldn’t have an LG washer if you gave it to me and paid me to use it! J-U-N-K!!!!
Eddie
[this post was last edited: 3/26/2023-17:36]
