New Whirlpool Top Loader - UK- Info needed please

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Hi Guys

We are very much thinking of getting one of the new style Whirlpool top loaders just released here in the uk and was wanting information on the cycles etc.
I used to have an Admiral 22lb Heavy duty but this was far to big for when I moved to be with my partner as it wouldnt fit in the new house.It had to be sold unfortunately.
Well we are moving to a new house and I will hopefully be able to have one in the new garage as its attached to the house.
I have attached a picture below so you can see which model.

I am wanting to know what kind of cycles it has and option buttons as no pictures on the net seem to have a close up of the control panel.
Does it have a pre wash or soak cycle and how do these work? Does it fill then soak then drain or fill soak agitate for a bit then drain?
If there is a pre wash, does it fill and wash for a certain time then empty and fill again or does it empty,spin then stop?
How long is the timer for?
It says it has a new "extra rollover plus" agitator.
Also accutemp but didnt think it would work without a heater?
Basically Im after as much info as possible and an explination of the longest cycle possible would be great. The web sites really dont give you much and even the Whirlpool site itself dosn't give me much info.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks guys
Mark

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No Soak or Prewash here. If you want to soak, you let it fill, agitate breifly and then turn off for the required time.

Prewash, you set it to rinse and when its done you turn it back to Main wash to start again.

Accutemp is a device that mixes the incomming water to the correct temps, it doesnt heat, it just controls how the water is mixed. Cold in AU is about 21degC, Warm is 30deg C, and the last time I checked, hot was still tap hot.

The longest cycle usually allows for 18 minutes of washing, however it'd want to be a really heavy duty item in there to wash it for 18 minutes, particularily on a full load. The Machines we get in AU and the UK as rule are only two speeds, and the Super wash runs at high speed. The longest you should run a cycle at high speed is prob 8-10 minutes. Otherwise from memory, the PP cycle is 12 minutes, with 4 mins high and 8 mins low. However it has slow spin speeds, and you have to wait for the pesky cool down.
 
Thanks Bris!

I was hoping the Whirlpool site would have an instruction manual to download but unfortunately no manuals for top loaders.

Is there anywhere I could dowload an instruction manual for it or any other Whirlpool top loaders.Just so I can get an idea of what it does etc?

Thanks
Mark
 
Mark, I tried to find info on the UK site too and even looked at the freestanding range brochure. The heavy duty range doesn't have even detailed charts. I can guess though, with the type of control panel it is. The far left is the water level knob. Then in the center are soft pushbuttons--one side for the 5 wash/rinse temperature combinations and the other side the 4 wash/spin speed combinations--for a total of 9 buttons. Then of course, the right side has the timer dial. Probably similar to here. a 22 minute soak program, toward the end of that program is the 4 minute pre-wash program. They end up with a drain & spin. You then have to return to set the timer for the program you want. There's probably heav duty, permanent press/wrinkle free, and delicate/handwash/woolen. The automatic temperature control assures correct mix of hot & cold water on the warm setting to be about 95 to 104 degrees F over here. The col keeps temp from going below 65 or 75 degrees F here. Hot is directly what is supplied form you hot water tank/heater. On mine, if I have my heater set higher than 140 degrees, the accutemp regulates it at 140 degrees F. This is all guessing, but I'm pretty sure it's not too far off for any of this information.
 
There are only 7 buttons there

5 Wash/Rinse Temps and an extra rinse selector. One button for extra rinse on, one button for extra rinse off.

If you follow the link below and look at the specs for 6ALSC8255MW I think you'll find that this is the equivilent of the machine above.

Plus I almost died of surprise, after years of the AU Whirlpool site, not having the corporate image, its now been updated.

The Cycles are as Appnut states.

Heavy/Normal with High Wash speed and High Spin Speed
Normal/Light PP with High Wash, Low Wash and Low Spin Speed
Woolens/Handwash with Alternating Soak and Low speed wash, Short Low speed spin.

I would be amazed if the UK Machines get a Soak/prewash. None of the Exported TL machines from the US seem to have all the frills the US machines do.

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I have thought about getting one of these machines because of the load capacity and speed. I have never seen one of these machines rated in the way that UK FL's are (A to G) etc. For the first time, a few days ago, I saw one rated on the net but I'm afraid I can't remember where it was. They rated these US TL's as 'G' for the wash performance, the lowest/worst rating there is. They were 'B' or 'C' for spin perfomance. Incidentally, this is the same rating as the UK Hotpoint agi style TL of the 1960's to 1990's. I has made me think again about buying one.
 
Thanks Guys!

Your help and information is very much appreciated!

Its difficult and annoying when your thinking of buying a new washer but you cant seem to get any information on it.I only came across one electrical store here which had it on display, but it didnt! Apparently there is quite a demand for the whirlpool top loader and the display model was sold to someone who "Couldnt wait". I went back yesterday to see if the display model was on show yet and the company has gone into liqidation and so they were just selling off the display models of everything in the shop that was left so I still havent got to actually "see" one yet close up!

Thanks again
Mark
 
Probably is some law - I imagine the EU came up with that one like all the others - apples of a certain circumference must be destroyed, the angle of a banana's 'bend' has to be within EU parameters.

I expect that some one lifted the lid on a spinning TL and stuck their arm in "to see what happens" and was injured. Sometime in the 70's (I think), the twin tubs that were so loved in the UK had to have warnings about the danger of spin dryers and then later models had safety switches that wouldn't allow you to open them unless they were stationary.

I don't know what it is like in the US but here in the UK with a combination of money squandering, blood sucking, fraudulent EU bureaucrats and Blair's nannys, we're not allowed to do anything!!!
 
Is that the same

scale we use in Germany? I didn't know there even was a "G". Since "A" is the best, I assume "G" stands vor "G"-ottverdammt schlecht? Or "G"-odawful in English....
???165 Litres of water???
Huh??
What I think about Whirlpool is no secret, but that is ---
well, don't nobody never critize me for my opinion of that company 'gain after that!
Or is this some sort of British scale which goes backwards to the rest of Europe?
???!!!???
 
Ok, now I believe it

Gah, Stefan - des koa i ned glauben...as my best friend here would say. Is it possible that this machine is so far away from the European norm that a realistic test is not possible? Or is it the result of the tremendous amount of water which would have to be heated for this beast...or...
Never mind, just never mind. Anyone who buy this would have to think very seriously about what they were doing to the environment. You don't have to be a hysterical Green to realise that there is just no excuse for such wastefulness.
 
it would turn my stomach to know

I am still reeling from the water consumption.
This explains why the power company and the water company in Colorado both were very happy to offer big sums of cash to anyone who bought a front loader the last few years.
I knew there was a difference of 1:3 or 1:4 but this is the first time I really, intellectually (quiet in the cheap ranks!) understood it.
This means a Unimatic running full blast with hot wash and warm rinse, overflowing its rinses like mad is still nearly three times as efficient as this, this, this...
mir fehlen die Wörter.
This is an atrocity and should be labeled with the "swine of the year" award.
O, my paws and whiskers.
And I bet Whirlpool isn't even the worst of the bunch...
Just where do they think we are going to go when this planet is sick of us, to Venus?
Oh, all things considered, maybe that's where we came from.
(Don't call for the strait jacket folks, that was a joke. There was some speculation in the last decade that the Venusian atmosphere was similar to what global warming would do to ours...)
 
Couldn't agree more. On top of all that water waste you have to consider the amount of detergent required to be effective in all that water. The environmental consequenses are hideous but they are still manufactured by the thousand. Until they are withdrawn from sale little will change. With UK water companies applying for drought orders from the govt. I am glad we don't have them in abundance here!!
 

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