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Considering all the strikes against this design, might be ti

Considering all the strikes against this design, might have been time to replace it the day it was installed!

Any ideas on how this design could possibly have been made worse, is that even possible? (Excluding designs by GE of the last decade).
Dave
 
I would take a GE washer of today over an Amanatag. Retrofitting the plastic outer tub and dual drive tranny seems to have done this design in. Also made it difficult to change brake pads and belts. Problematic from the get go.
To GE's credit they, at least, started from the ground up with a totally new design. GE also had brake problems in the beginning, but things seem to have smoothed out for laundry units built in Kentucky.
 
Video of the machine.

I shot a short video of the guts of my Amanatag during agitation. It is my first video shoot so I appologize for its poor quality. Also, the inner tub lurches with the transmission.

I hate this machine,
Dave

 
gosh

I have spent time under a lot of machines through the years, but that, well, gosh - indexing takes on a whole new meaning.
I agree with you: This monster should have been drowned at birth - in any case before it drowns your house.
POS does not come even close.
Let your homeowner watch this video and I bet he handcarries your Maytag in place and sets it up for you.
 
Update!

The warranty people are coming to "have a look" at the Amanatag this Thursday between 8:00 and Noon. We'll see what they have to say about it. I'm hoping the machine is suffering from a terminal case of being an Amanatag, and the serviceman (or woman) agrees and advises my landlord to put 'er down before the big flood. As I have advised my landlord, a replaced belt and new brake shoes may make the machine function like new again, but it does not change, or improve, the tub seal. I did buy a drip pan, but that will only buy time if it leaks.

Hoping for the worst, for the sake of me, my house, and my A208,
Dave
 
Wow.

Of the three models shown on the page, two get only one star out of five, and one gets one-and-a-half stars. Reading the comments is a class-action lawyer's dream- very consistent tales of premature failure and unresponsive service. It's very seldom you see a consumer complaint THIS pointed:

"The business school idiots who destroyed a great brand like Maytag should be deported to North Korea."

Whirlpool, you have your work cut out for you!
 
I hate repair services!

The repair service was supposed to be here between 8:00 and noon today. THEY DID NOT SHOW UP!!!!! They also did not call to say why. I am calling tomorrow to get to the bottom of this. Is this typical of GE extended warranties?

Also, my Saab was towed to the shop today. Its third trip to the shop since Thanksgiving, and its second via tow truck during that time period. I think the people who made my Saab also made the Amanatag,
Dave
 
GE Warranty Service

"Is this typical of GE extended warranties?"

According to a lot of people, yes. Peteski50 (I think that's the right username) had a lot of info about his travails with them posted to his "LG Nightmare Continues" thread, now sadly gone with the hiccup in the Super forum.
 
GE extended warranties

Hi Sandy,
My thread is in the Deluxe # 8486 and I appreciate the fact it is still their. I have no intension of dropping the issues weather or not the machine works. As for the GE extended warranties the problem mostly lies with their service with LG. They took on something that they couldnt handle. And legally they are responsible for my issues not LG. But I still want to do everything to make GE extended warranties and LG look bad because of the poor service.
Peter
 
Great news!

The very nice serviceman came out and lubricated the brake pads on the Amanatag with WD-40. Although I do believe that someday WD-40 will team up with Duct Tape and save the world, I am unconvinced that WD-40 fixed the problem. The tub still indexes, it just does so silently, also it now squeaks and chatters going from swirl-away drain to spin. Fortunately this is all irrelevent because my landlord has decided to sell the washer before it floods the house. In its place will go my A208. Since the machine is to be sold, is the GE extended warranty transferable?

A much happier,
Dave
 
Oh what fresh He## is this?

I am planning on moving the A208 up to the laundry room when I return from a vacation an about a week and a half. In the mean time my housemates will ontinue to use the Amanatag. Unfortunately, it has developed a new problem. It now clunks during agitation. I pulled off the front panel and had a look and this is what I saw:
The OUTER tub was trying to index! (It was straining at the suspension springs and the entire mechanism (Tubs, transmission, pump, and motor) were all twisting with each stroke of the agitator. This action was also putting a strain on the flexable hose between the pump (moving with the tubs) and the drain hosee (clampped to the bottom of the machine and not moving). The tub seems to rock back and forth more than it did before when pushed by hand, and the machine makes some godawful banging, groaning, and growling noises during spin. Will this machine hold onto life for another week and a half, or is it kaput? Either way I will be calling my landlord and the warranty people too.

Get this thing outta my house,
Dave
 
Dave,

When Steve and I took apart that Amanatag(pictured above), there was grease all over the inside and the spin sounded like a freight train. It was awful. My neighbor had that machine for only three years. She junked it and we tried to play with it before sending it to the Krusher.

Good Luck with your Vintage Maytag.

GadgetSwitch
 

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