Newer Whirlpool washers known for control board failures?

[whirlpool862]

I have four friends with newer whirlpool washing machines (WTW4950HW3, WTW4955HW3, WTW4816FW3, and WTW4957PW0), all continuously draining due to bad control boards. I hate how Whirlpool has declined in recent years. Three of them are 2023 machines, the WTW4957PW0 is a 2024 model.

My Whirlpool WTW4900BW0 washing machine is over 10 years old and the only problem is that it has a noisy bearing on the spin cycle, but it otherwise works fine.

Whirlpool says they’ve been recalled but some people said their whirlpool washer was only a few weeks old and only recently started the continuous drain issue.

If Whirlpool does not fix this immediately, they might eventually go bankrupt. Having a washing machine that has a control board fail within one year is ridiculous.

 

[murando531]

What is happening on this website…

 

[agiflow]

It's relevant is it not ?

 

[carolina128]

Yes it’s relevant, but there’s something like four different threads discussing this same issue.

 

[agiflow]

Yes I pointed that out to this poster

 

[mrstickball]

As someone else posted it, there's a massive pressure sensor issue that's caused Whirlpool to issue one of the biggest service bulletins ever for their VMW systems. The pressure transducer is failing on the model, causing infinite drain situations.

I think my company authored a solution to refurbish the boards without replacing the transducer. However, I am waiting on another 5 bad boards from a factory to try this fix before releasing the whitepaper to the public on it.

 

[Chetlaham]

What Whirlpool's Controls Ought To Look Like

This is what people should be demanding and voting on from any appliance maker, in a metal Eaton or metal MTS style timer.

 

 

Perhaps contacts 12T and 14T would better suffice as drop on and lift off instead of drop off and lift on due to the motor making inrush, but that is an easy swap. 30 second increments btw- though 1 minute at 48 7.5 degree steps would be a better timer alternative. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From MTS's website:

 

 

 

Before anyone jumps on me for the spin or wash being to short, this is just one timer meant for a very BOL machine. The idea is to demonstrate the sheer amount of simplicity that could be built into a washing machine while being complemented with very over engineered parts and numerous overlapping fail safes.

[this post was last edited: 4/14/2025-12:56]

 

[mark_wpduet]

I think I found one

 

[csedd]

I have four friends with newer whirlpool washing machines (WTW4950HW3, WTW4955HW3, WTW4816FW3, and WTW4957PW0), all continuously draining due to bad control boards. I hate how Whirlpool has declined in recent years. Three of them are 2023 machines, the WTW4957PW0 is a 2024 model.

My Whirlpool WTW4900BW0 washing machine is over 10 years old and the only problem is that it has a noisy bearing on the spin cycle, but it otherwise works fine.

Whirlpool says they’ve been recalled but some people said their whirlpool washer was only a few weeks old and only recently started the continuous drain issue.

If Whirlpool does not fix this immediately, they might eventually go bankrupt. Having a washing machine that has a control board fail within one year is ridiculous.

YES!

https://automaticwasher.org/threads/whirlpool-faulty-control-board.98297/

 

[csedd]

I think I found one

 

[csedd]

As someone else posted it, there's a massive pressure sensor issue that's caused Whirlpool to issue one of the biggest service bulletins ever for their VMW systems. The pressure transducer is failing on the model, causing infinite drain situations.

I think my company authored a solution to refurbish the boards without replacing the transducer. However, I am waiting on another 5 bad boards from a factory to try this fix before releasing the whitepaper to the public on it.

THANK YOU!
(I don't see how over-posting this issue does any harm. The public needs to know that Whirlpool has faulty control boards in their home appliances!)

 

[csedd]

I think I found one

Yup! The faulty control board causes a wide range of issues...over a few months ... before the continuous draining issue. At that point, the washer has to be UNPLUGGED to stop. Plug it back in and it continues to drain.