Because if every modern washing machine sold in the last 5 years were faulty, and not acting like a "washing machine" there would be outright revolt in the streets and in media.
I know there's lots of negative complaints online, but there are also slews of positive reviews online as well, with modern machines.
So which is it?
A sales rep from WP told me a few years ago in Home Depot that their complaints/repairs hover around 18% for Maytag and WP, and about 15% or KA.
Yeah, that's a lot of people when you sell millions of machines a year.
But it's not ALLLLLLL of them like so many here keep saying.
If ALL modern machines were terrible, then WP, GE, Elux, even LG and Samsung would be taking returns and losing millions of dollars a year.
But they are not.
I'm a WP stockholder, and their stock has been struggling.
But it's struggling because of high raw material costs mainly.
Their inventory numbers and warranty claims are not high enough culprits to be reported on in the quarterly meetings.
In fact, their sales are doing pretty well.
Now if folks on here want to claim to their heart's content that they dislike modern machines, they hate them, they think their styling sucks, their durability is not the same, their washing characteristics are "not what you believe in."
Sure, all valid opinions.
But it's just not fact, with tested evidence, that ALL modern machines are not capable of washing clothes.
Reviewed.com, Cnet, Consumer Reports all conduct soil tests and fabric damage tests on all these modern machines.
And to varying degrees, all of them get stains out, to a satisfactory percentage. Some more than others. But never 0% stain removal.
Not any better or worse than machines from 20 years ago.
When you have modern TL or FL machines removing 50% of blood, or 60% of wine or 40% of grass stains, on the Normal cycle, like this test here:
https://www.cnet.com/products/electrolux-eflw417siw-washing-machine/review/2/
It means the machine is working to pretty satisfactory degree.
I'll just add some anecdotal evidence from personal experience.
My parents have had a 1982 Maytag washer all the way up till this past thanksgiving. It gave up the ghost.
They replaced it with a modern TL Maytag 765. It washes all their clothes as well as, or better, than the old Maytag.
I have a Maxima FL from 2015. It washes just as well, often better, than my parents' old Maytag. It also washes as well, or better, and GENTLER than every old TL GE or WP DD machine I've had in every apartment I've lived in.
And the coin op Speed Queens I've been saddled to use? Pfffff, don't hold a candle to my Maxima.
My aunts' have had a Neptune set, and now a modern LG set, and both were stellar washing performers.
Will any of these modern machines last 15 years, 20? 30?
Not a chance.
But as long as they are working from the factory as designed, they are all very good "washing" machines.
No matter how much that fact pisses off the nostalgics.
