New Maytag Traditional Belt Drive Washing Machine

[thefixer]

I've repaired lots of these VMW machines and I know a lot of techs who consider them cash cows. Poorly made junk in my opinion. The actual percentage of failures may be low considering how ubiquitous they have become but we see lots of them. We are now replacing upper transmission bearings in the "unserviceable" transmissions due to so many failures of the tub seal. People won't pay the high price of transmission replacement but will for the 30 minutes of labor, bearing and tub seal, once the transmission is removed. One of the many failures we see on them. We always carry extra shift actuators and motor capacitors. Got the idea of replacing the transmission bearings from an appliance junkyard that sees these machines coming in about every other day. So many had bearing failures that they decided to figure out how to replace them.

 

[repair-man]

I think that Whirlpool could address the weak spots in the VMW machines and they would be pretty good. But so far they are not holding up very well.