New Kenmore Washers released

[logixx]

Just found these on the Sears web site. Wonder if it's still made by LG, though. Has a lot of resemblance to Electrolux: 5.1 cu.ft on the washer and 8 on the dryer, 59 min. Express Sanitize, reversible door swing and three users can save their own three custom cycles -all just like on the WaveTouch. There's still all that scrubbing, swinging etc. motion going on, so...?

Specs:

7 in. LCD Touchscreen controls up to 26 cycles. Save up to 30% more time when doing laundry with Exclusive Time Manager™ Technology. Cleans up to 48 men's XL t-shirts with 5.1 IEC cu. ft. super capacity.

Time Manager™ saves you up to 30% more time when doing laundry by shortening wash times while still keeping all segments of the washing process and getting your clothes clean. Time Manager™ can be selected in five cycles (Normal, Bulky, Heavy, Towels & Whites) to handle all different types of fabrics.

Is your water hook up on the left side or right side of your laundry room? It does not matter with Kenmore Elite washer 4413 because it has a reversible washer door. You can enjoy a "French Door" opening so transferring clothes from the washer to the dryer is effortless.

Smart Motion™ Technology now offers 8 revolutionary wash motions (Cradling, Soaking, Stirring, Showering, Tumbling, Swinging, Scrubbing, and Rolling) to give proper care and cleaning for a range of fabrics.

 

[logixx]

And what about this? Bad PhotoShop? These are clearly Electrolux drums:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_02644132000P?prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=L1

 

[3beltwesty]

Blackberry

Cleans up to 48 men's XL t-shirts with 5.1 IEC cu. ft. super capacity.

Kenmore's Most Efficienct Washer. The 4413x saves 60% more energy and 71% more water than a pre-2004 non-Energy Star Clothes washer. The annual dollar savings are $176. This washer will pay for itself in ~ 8 years

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_02644130000P

 

[Pingmeep]

@logixx Yup it has to be Electrolux besides the drums. Time Manager(tm) has been their feature for years. Remember seeing it in Electrolux machines from Hong Kong immigrants years ago.

As an aside: Yay a new standard for washer capacity 48 men's XL t-shirts!

 

[househelper]

59 min sanitize

From your link 3belt

"Eliminate 99.9% of bacteria in only 59 minutes with the NSF® Express Sanitize Cycle. Other front load washers can take up to 2 1/2+"

I guess you can heat 2 cups of water with 120v to sanitation temps in 59 min. I wonder how it cleans though.

 

[hoover1100]

48 men's XL t-shirts

What a joke!

No one has that much washing! These capacities are just getting ridiculous.

 

[logixx]

Yeah, TimaManager is so Electrolux. I though that, too! Electrolux/Frigidaire has a Quick Sani cycle: it doesn't heat quite as high as th full cycle, IIRC, and only has one rinse.

ManageMyLife.com already has the manuals available for download and they look just like E-Lux!

http://www.managemylife.com/mmh/lis_pdf/OWNM/1102334L.pdf

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[appnut]

Yep, made by Elux.  Frigilux's Frigidaire has the 1 hour Sanitize Express cycle. 

 

[retropia]

I might be willing to spend this kind of money on a washer if I knew I could get 10, 15 or 20 mostly trouble-free years out of it.  But if I only got 3-5 years of service before it dies?  That would make it a poor value.

 

[appnut]

No one has that much washing! These capacities are just gett

Matt, I think most people here on this side of the pond don't sort, they throw everything in at once, add a cheap liquid detergent, and wash in cold water.  they don't care about laundry. 

 

[launderess]

Have Observed More Than Once

Persons at local laundromat arriving with one, two or several large bin liners full of laundry. Cram it all into the 50lb SQ washer (regardless of over loading or not), and start the machine. Darks, lites, whites, dog blankets, towels, the whole lot, in that one wash load.

 

[jerrod6]

I am still laughing...in fact I can't stop.  Time manager reduces the time of the cycle.  Ok my FL washer from 2003 does this. it doesn't have a trademark name attached.... it just does it.

 

Washing motions :  Cradling.  Ok so the washer holds, caresses and pets the clothes is that it?  Better something,  or someone, do this than a washer.   You know folks read this and are ready to jump on it right away... 26 Cycles....What can possibly be going on?...  Oh I bet all of the cradling, rocking, scrubbing,  jumping  and squatting are in  individual cycles....although my 1996 kitchenAid  TL had a bunch of cycles...turns out that they counted a 12 minute wash as a cycle, as 10 minute wash as a cycle a 4 minute wash as a cycle and so on....not really program cycles just changes in the wash time you selected on the mechanical dial.

 

Other companies are learning from Whirlpool that it pays to apply a name to every little thing the machine does making it sound like something WONDERFUL..make it sound good and they will come,  even while other  machines have been executing the same thing --- sometimes for years prior.

 

Stupid pet tricks .....and  the consumer is the pet... or perhaps they are the stupid.

 

Great advertising...thanks for the post!

 

[Pingmeep]

A name for everything...

@jerrod6 You can bet LG is kicking themselves for stopping at 6motion

@logixx Have you seen any of these machines with a full LCD sell well in the EU?

@Laundress I'll see your 50lb SpeedQueen stuff and raise you a 30lb Dexter overstuff I saw tonight. It was so bad the owner came down to see it. "We have other machines. You could separate the whites."

 

[georgect]

Is this the next generation Electrolux?

Are we seeing what's coming down the line (next generation) for Electrolux?
I still love the Wavetouch and they are still my first choice to replace my TL Whirlpools.

Didn't Sears do this before with another brand? Kind of like a test before Whirlpool put its own name on the machines.

 

[logixx]

Actually, I know of only one washer that has a touch screen - a Gorenje. Miele has the Supertronic, which has the same interface as the LaPerla dishwasher. Other than that, most washers have knobs and buttons. There were attempts from AEG, B/S/H and Bauknecht to sell display-driven machines but they all disappeared. I like the idea but I hope the electronics behind it are durable. I mean, I'm typing this from my Samsung Wave touch screen phone, which is easy to use and reliable... but who knows how the technology performs on the washer?

Yes, 8Motions - what a joke! What kind of motion is soaking? And rolling is really just slow tumbling...

 

[sudsman]

Cradling, Soaking, Stirring, Showering, Tumbling, Swinging,

Sounds like its got bed bugs!

 

[3beltwesty]

MATT; RE:

What a joke!

No one has that much washing! These capacities are just getting ridiculous

Matt; I think it points to a USA "red beans and rice factor"!

ie typical American Bigger is better!

Seriously here in the USA one has had this McMansion factor in the last decade's real estate boondoggle of giant houses. The *absurd* thing is *many* of these houses have a giant look from the outside, but have just a useless high pitched attic with zero storage area, it is full of 2x4's in bracing. ie Joe and Jane build this macho house with a 16/12 pitch and the attic is useless. It is like a 1973 Chevy Monte Carlo car with a giant hood to look like one has a powerfull car.

There are actually TL washers bigger than this model; about 5.7 cubic feet

 

[mark_wpduet]

3beltwesty

Right.

No one has that much washing...........

But it would be nice to have for big items like a king comforter that you can't get into the 3.7 cu ft washers etc............At least the one I had would not fit into my Duet.

This is made by Electrolux? Those look like LG baffles in that pic above....

I wonder if there is a hidden option deep in the controls to ADD more water like in the wave touch

 

[frigilux]

The "Quick Sanitize" cycle on my new Frigidaire provides only one rinse , so I'm guessing the same is true for this new Electrolux-made Kenmore.

 

These machines use so little water I would never allow a cycle with only one rinse. Also, the water doesn't get up to 152 degrees as it does in the regular Sanitize Cycle, which is 1:45 long.

 

I'm all for the huge tubs!  I've found that even tiny loads (1-4 items) are washed well and get lift-and-drop tumbling, just like a bigger load.  There was a lot more water in the tub with my 2002 Frigidaire, so small loads would just roll over and over at the bottom of the tub.  I like having the capacity to wash huge, heavy items like comforters. And at least two of my loads fill the tub completely each week---bath towels, and kitchen whites.