Hi folks!
When you think nothing can go worse with a Whirlpool-made washer, Whirlpool surprises us with the Maytag Centennial
Starting by the washer has some sort of dementia or Alzheimer's. For every single step, it stops, thinks trying to wonder what it has to do.
You press the start... 10 seconds pause, lock the door.
Then OCD comes, it unlocks the door and locks again (just to double check, you know)
Then it stops and thinks (because it has to remember how to sense the load)
Almost 1 minute later, it starts that boring paused spin to "sense".
Not too long... "only" 9 minutes to SENSE THE F-WORD LOAD!
It starts filling (YAY! finally!) Don't get too excited, it fills 1 inch and starts "sensing" again, not using the agitator (for only 14 minutes)
It finally reaches the "ideal?" water level... Full load, water doesn't even come close to the bottom of the auger.
Ok, here it goes, mangling a full load in "low". Oh, but wait, the wash has two stages, one is concentrated, than it ads more water... a 2-second "spit". 1 minute before the end of the 8-minute agitation. (did I mention it is slower than a DD in low speed?)
Stop for 2 minutes thinking again because it needs to remember how to drain.
It drains, with a pump that is so miserable that it almost looks like one of those desktop decorative fountains.
Here comes the rinse.
Yes, i mean RINSE (before the spin)
After it drains, the drum spins like a microwave plate and it spits water on clothes for impressive THREE seconds (yes, that's the rinse.)
Then it ramps up the spin, you see that white water coming out of the drain hose, full of suds.
As you're not a three hugger, you select fabric softener ON and extra rinse ON
If fill ONE INCH agitates TWICE (I mean, literally ONLY TWO agitator strokes that doesn nothing because the water barely reached the bottom of the agitator.
Then it drains...
Now comes the "impressive" extra rinse.
after taking 2 decades to drain it repeats the rinse sequence (3 second spray).
Goes straight to final spin.
One cycle is somewhat usable...
Bulky items..
It fills all the way up (what a miracle!) agitation is depressive but it somewhat does something (don't ever think about using it for whites or clothes that are too dirty)
then the rinse is also on maximum water level.
And that's it.
But, I can't complain...
It was NEW. covered with dust after 5 years sitting in a garage, but inside it was so clean that I wonder if it was used more than a couple of times.
And the price was unbeatable. Free Dollars and Free cents.
It stays (just to fill a gap in my collection), but it will be the first to go when something more interesting comes.
Pictures later.
When you think nothing can go worse with a Whirlpool-made washer, Whirlpool surprises us with the Maytag Centennial
Starting by the washer has some sort of dementia or Alzheimer's. For every single step, it stops, thinks trying to wonder what it has to do.
You press the start... 10 seconds pause, lock the door.
Then OCD comes, it unlocks the door and locks again (just to double check, you know)
Then it stops and thinks (because it has to remember how to sense the load)
Almost 1 minute later, it starts that boring paused spin to "sense".
Not too long... "only" 9 minutes to SENSE THE F-WORD LOAD!
It starts filling (YAY! finally!) Don't get too excited, it fills 1 inch and starts "sensing" again, not using the agitator (for only 14 minutes)
It finally reaches the "ideal?" water level... Full load, water doesn't even come close to the bottom of the auger.
Ok, here it goes, mangling a full load in "low". Oh, but wait, the wash has two stages, one is concentrated, than it ads more water... a 2-second "spit". 1 minute before the end of the 8-minute agitation. (did I mention it is slower than a DD in low speed?)
Stop for 2 minutes thinking again because it needs to remember how to drain.
It drains, with a pump that is so miserable that it almost looks like one of those desktop decorative fountains.
Here comes the rinse.
Yes, i mean RINSE (before the spin)
After it drains, the drum spins like a microwave plate and it spits water on clothes for impressive THREE seconds (yes, that's the rinse.)
Then it ramps up the spin, you see that white water coming out of the drain hose, full of suds.
As you're not a three hugger, you select fabric softener ON and extra rinse ON
If fill ONE INCH agitates TWICE (I mean, literally ONLY TWO agitator strokes that doesn nothing because the water barely reached the bottom of the agitator.
Then it drains...
Now comes the "impressive" extra rinse.
after taking 2 decades to drain it repeats the rinse sequence (3 second spray).
Goes straight to final spin.
One cycle is somewhat usable...
Bulky items..
It fills all the way up (what a miracle!) agitation is depressive but it somewhat does something (don't ever think about using it for whites or clothes that are too dirty)
then the rinse is also on maximum water level.
And that's it.
But, I can't complain...
It was NEW. covered with dust after 5 years sitting in a garage, but inside it was so clean that I wonder if it was used more than a couple of times.
And the price was unbeatable. Free Dollars and Free cents.
It stays (just to fill a gap in my collection), but it will be the first to go when something more interesting comes.
Pictures later.
but what a PITA when it gets stuck on rebalance routine...Also these are hard on clothes-converting them to lint.
