Hi all, thanks for adding me to the fourm. I have been a long time looker but need some advice. We are moving to a house with a laundry room that has a counter top built in over the washers so top load is not a option. I will be keeping our current SQ AWN432 for the basement laundry room. Does anyone know what the differences between these two LG models are? Thanks
LG Comparison Help WM4200HBA vs WM4500HBA
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1) The cabinet style is different--round door vs. square door; 2) the 4500 has an interior tub light; 3) the 4500's Ez-dose laundry additive system making it much easier to properly dose properly for each load size and soil level; and also allowing not having to put in laundry aids each load; 4) the 4500 only comes in black steel and the 4200 offer a choice between white and black steel cabinets; 5) the 4500's door glass is tinted, the 4200 isn't.
Biggest difference feature set wise is the automatic detergent aside from styling.
Some people love theirs.
It is a really smart idea as long as you use one detergent and softner pretty consistently.
If you change detergent often, use a lot of options (many prewashes), use much powder and so on, the way LG set it up might be working against you.
Changing detergent often means a lot of cleaning and readjusting.
It just can't dispense powder.
And especially with the LG, the automatic dispensers takes up your drawer space.
The 4200 has 4 compartments: prewash, mainwash, bleach and softner.
The 4500 has only 2 manual compartments: main wash and bleach.
So no once in a while manual softner dispensing, prewash only with automatic dosing.
The price difference is there (about 150$ from what I see), but not as much as one would think.
Wash and rinse performance will be exactly the same since they use the same wash package (software and hardware).
Pretty good performer apparently, however temperatures can be lowish depending on cycle and being the 5 cuft model spinning can sometimes take a while though that apparently got significantly better over the last few generations.
Some people love theirs.
It is a really smart idea as long as you use one detergent and softner pretty consistently.
If you change detergent often, use a lot of options (many prewashes), use much powder and so on, the way LG set it up might be working against you.
Changing detergent often means a lot of cleaning and readjusting.
It just can't dispense powder.
And especially with the LG, the automatic dispensers takes up your drawer space.
The 4200 has 4 compartments: prewash, mainwash, bleach and softner.
The 4500 has only 2 manual compartments: main wash and bleach.
So no once in a while manual softner dispensing, prewash only with automatic dosing.
The price difference is there (about 150$ from what I see), but not as much as one would think.
Wash and rinse performance will be exactly the same since they use the same wash package (software and hardware).
Pretty good performer apparently, however temperatures can be lowish depending on cycle and being the 5 cuft model spinning can sometimes take a while though that apparently got significantly better over the last few generations.
Henrik. just like my Duet, the LG dispensing system also dispenses detergent for the prewash. Also, LG's system auto doses fabric softener. Use of liquid chlorine bleach is not automatically dispensed, it's added to a specific compartment only when needed for a load.
Not what I was trying to say
What I ment was:
A) If you run a prewash, you HAVE to use automatic dosing.
You CAN NOT use powdered detergent (or for that matter any detergent that isn't in the auto dose container) if you run a prewash.
Unless they have some way of bypassing the drawer - some EU machines make you dose detergent in the drum then. But haven't red that in the manual.
B) You CAN NOT dose fabric softener any other way except for using the automatic dosing.
You would have to run a separate rinse and spin to manually dose it or time when to be there for the last rinse.
Systems that don't have the tanks in the drawer avoid that.
But as I said, for many, that won't really matter.
What I ment was:
A) If you run a prewash, you HAVE to use automatic dosing.
You CAN NOT use powdered detergent (or for that matter any detergent that isn't in the auto dose container) if you run a prewash.
Unless they have some way of bypassing the drawer - some EU machines make you dose detergent in the drum then. But haven't red that in the manual.
B) You CAN NOT dose fabric softener any other way except for using the automatic dosing.
You would have to run a separate rinse and spin to manually dose it or time when to be there for the last rinse.
Systems that don't have the tanks in the drawer avoid that.
But as I said, for many, that won't really matter.
OK. Thank you for the clarification. I didn't interpret what you said as that. For years I only used powdered detergent. when I started using my Precision Dispense, then I wasa able to use presoak and prewash options.
