LG Front Loaders

[a440]

LG~

Great thread. 

I have to say that everyone I know that has an LG "Front Load" washer absolutely loves them.  Most of the people I know have the very first direct drives with the rear panel.  They would not get rid of it for anything.  I don't know anyone that has a top loader LG.

The LG Turbo Wash...this is awesome.   I just watched the video on Youtube.  It answers many of my "What If's" when I have watched my first generation HE3T wash. 

What I would love to see is a "full" load for me.  The load they washed was only a 1/4 of what I wash.  Always a full load....for the last 14 or so years in my HE3T.  Would love to see the LG deal with that.

Here is the video of the LG Turbo Wash if anyone did not see it.

Looks like an awesome washer.

B

 

 

[laundromat]

Hey Brent,
I have four LG washers and one is their top loading 4.3 cu ft top loader ( WT1101CW ). I saw it at Smith's Trade a used furniture and appliance store. It was new/never used and the owner,Charlie Smith, gives me machines there he'll never touch that is one of them. I took it off the shipping pallet,turned it over on its side to remove tben noticed a piece of broken plastic off the pallet stuck in the motor plate. I removed it and it's worked flawlessly ever since. Its the absolute best,new top loading, washer I've ever had. I can wash our 9'X 18" runners, ten big blankets,king size bed sets, and watch as this washer takes over and gets everything cleaner and brighter smelling so nice and drying so fast. I highly recommend this affordable,nice ,hjge capacity washer to anyone who wants a nice machine for under $700. I saw this same model at Home Depot priced at $649. Better then Whirlpool,Maytag,GE,and Samsung and easy , user friendly controls. Extremely quiet too. I use it more then the front loading LGs and Mieles.
It has neat agitation movements and a recirculating spray. You may choose spray OR deep rinses and the 1100 RPM final spin can last as long as 23 minutes.
The pressure switch in all my front load LGs that determines the amount of water they use all have the screw to either increase by turning clockwise or decrease by turning counterclockwise. So,mine all fill all the way up to the base of the door handles. Water splashes with suds like waves on the coast and , like the 1101 top loader,it gets everything extremely clean. They spin 1400 RPMS and have steam options. Those are over two years old and not a second of issues. Great enough experiences with LG and their customer relations to become my absolute favorite current brand. Life is Good.

 

[nmassman44]

Thats the video I watched. Not a long wash cycle and on par with my top loader. Its a great selling tool to watch. Now the question I have is ...how well does the LG washer deal with lint and pet fur? I hang laundry out in the spring and summer and with my SQ washer there leaves alot to be desired at times. The Frigidaire built GE front loader does ok for linting and pet hair and I never get a residue on the clothes like I get with the SQ washer. And it will be nice to have a washer that extracts better. Now I have to double spin since the SQ washer takes its sweet time to get up to high spin...and thats with a new belt...by the time the final spin is over with, the load needs another spin. Once I do that, then the load feels acceptable to throw into the dryers.

 

[a440]

Awesome Video!

I keep watching this video over and over and want to point out the spin rinses.  Although these are spin rinses this is still part of the wash cycle!   Although this is not a part of the wash cycle....this machine is still washing!  Spin rinse between the wash and first deep rinse.  And then another spin rinse after the fist rinse into final spin.  This is incredible!  It is still pulling the dirt or a better way to say "anything else" out of the clothes in the final spin. 

I think this is incredible!   This machine is doing a spin rinse at what appears to be over 1,200 RPM per minute.

When we think back to Robert's "Unimatic Creation"  most of his focus was on full tub rinse during the spins.  This is the same thing.

I think LG has hit a home run with this cycle sequence. 

I am very impressed!

Now if they would only build a Gas Combo!

Whirlpool....what's up?  Get with the game.

 



 

 

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[appnut]

But what abut using fabric softner--the spin rinse after the first rinse.  Seems like it would flush out the softner. I think this cycle sequence occurs only when turbowash option is selected. I'd like to see how it handles all this with a FULL load. 

 

[a440]

~Bob

I thought the same thing about the Fabric Softener and the last spray rinse....

I also would love to see this machine work with the loads I do.  (FULL loads)

B

 

 

[logixx]

Post-softener spray rinse

I think a lot of top loaders do or did that as well. From what was said here, softener requires warm water to be removed from the clothes - a cold spray won't do too much "harm" to the softener coating.

 

I strongly suggest to watch Fernando's channel on YouTube. He has lots of videos of his 4.5 cu.ft LG TurboWash washer/dryer, showing the water levels and everything.

 

[nmassman44]

Tomorrow I am going out to get the 3570 LG washer. I found it on Sale for $835 and there is a couple of rebates on the washer. The SQ washer I am going to sell so hopefully I can get rid of it. There is nothing wrong with the washer, and I hate to part with it but my water and electric bill say otherwise. Plus performance wise and capacity will be better with the LG washer I think. The washer is highly rated in CU and the SQ washer...not so much.

 

[appnut]

Mike yay!!  I know you're gonna be glad to have a FLer back.  I cannot wait to hear the results of you taking it through its paces.  I just wish it gradually heated up from warm to hot/or sanitary  and offer extra hot (sanitary) wash temp on other cycles other than the named cycle like my WP does.  FLers ROCK!!!!  I'll also be curious to see if you decide to use your smart phone to download additional cycles. 

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[a440]

~ Mike

You are going to have so much fun Mike!

Can't wait to hear your reports on it's cleaning ability since you have had FL'ers in the past.

Sounds like an awesome price by the way.

Brent

 

[imperial70]

Return of the front loader

Mike,

I knew you would do it someday.  I could tell you were on the fence. My speed queen has sat on the side lines since I put my GE PFWS4600L0WW into full service and I haven't looked back.  The heater was the clincher for me, especially this very cold winter. 

 

I have to think about selling my Queen too.  Just waiting for a clear path from the basement to the street for the buyer.

 

 

 

[nmassman44]

I am making the right decision I think in retiring the SQ washer since our water bills have been horrid since we got it. It makes no sense that they want us to conserve, yet we have an abundant supply of water here in Mass. So they get people to conserve and lo and behold they are not making the same revenue that they were before, so they jack the rates up again. Its a vicious cycle. Plus with our electric rates, its been a painful winter.
The other thing is I want a washer that will hold a comforter easily. In the Frigidaire built GE that I have, I can put a comforter in it, but it wont move all that much since the drum is a tad smallish. It does fine with other loads, but large items and she chokes some. The SQ washer washing a comforter is a joke.

 

[pierreandreply4]

My 2 cent on this i still think that a top load washer is a much better choice than any front loader thats why when the washer i have that is a duet front load breaks that i am going back to a topload washer

 

[mark_wpduet]

Not me Pierre

My Duet will be 10 yrs old next month and I have LOVED it. The fact is, I really really want to try an LG FL washer next time, but I'm just so afraid because I read such mixed things about them. Some people on this forum LOVE them, but some HATE them. I have read that if you do buy one, good luck if you need repair because parts usually take weeks/months to get for the repair person to even fix them. I couldn't imagine if I had an LG washer waiting that long for it to be fixed. Can you imagine going to the laundromat for that long? I'd be so mad. But then again, things may have changed. I don't know.

 

[golittlesport]

Parts

LG appliances are relatively new to the U.S. marketplace and I would suspect that as LG washers have gained popularity and are now also sold under the Kenmore brand that commonly replaced parts are also much more widespread. Maybe one of our repair guys can comment.

The CR customer survey shows LG as the brand least often needing repairs.

 

[a440]

~ Agree with Rich

I agree with Rich as far as parts being available and interchangeable with the Sears Machines.

In fact when I had to replace the pump on my 14 year old HE3T the replacement part that was

recommended to me by Fox Appliance in Atlanta was a LG / Zenith built pump.  The motor was much

larger on the pump that it replaced.  I asked the parts guy at Fox Appliance if they get a lot of complaints

from LG and Samsung Customers about parts availability and his answer was no.  He said they either had in

stock most of the common parts or could order anything from either LG or Samsung.  He also stated that mostly

what is needed are door seals, water valves and electric drain pumps.  Common on any machine...

 

[jeff_adelphi]

LG parts

As an independent appliance servicer, LG will only sell me parts at retail prices. Tribles, my local parts supplier, can't get LG parts. Until this changes I will not be servicing any LG appliances, this includes LG made Kenmores. Jeff

 

[mark_wpduet]

I don't know -

maybe things have changed with LG parts since a while ago? I remember when I first got my Duet, I frequented the laundry forums. And I definitely remember reading horror stories of posts of people that had bought LG washers that, when they needed repair, they had to wait weeks for the repair person to get the parts for their machine to be repaired. So I guess that image has stuck in my mind when I think of LG, even though this was probably around 2005 or 2006 (ish).....

 

[joe_in_philly]

My Whirlpool (Bauknecht) HE3t will be 12 years old in a few months, and I love it too. When it comes time for a replacement, I am thinking of getting a Whirlpool. While I don't think the Whirlpools are as showy as the LGs, I do think that they do a good job, are well built, and have decent options. I don't know if LGs heat the water on as many cycles as the Whirlpool models can, and I find that is important to getting outstanding results in a FL washer.

Another things that is pointing me to Whirlpool is that it gets a 100 rating from HRC, and is made in the USA. LG gets a 0 rating from HRC, and they are made in Korea. I guess all those Made in America news reports about how purchasing US designed and manufactured products help our economy are starting to sink in. While it is not a eliminating factor for me, it definitely is a plus in the pro column, as is supporting companies that are LGBTQ inclusive.

 

[logixx]

My Whirlpool (Bauknecht) HE3t will be 12 years old in a few months

 

Now that's good to hear! And as far as heating the water goes: there's a poster on GardenWeb who kept track of how the individual cycles on his Kenmore functioned. He said that the Whitest Whites cycle on Hot never exceeded 105F. He even added that, if the initial temp was high enough, the heater wouldn't come on to reheat the water.