Older Maytag should I give to friend who overloads?

[paulwash]

My good girlfriend at work is always on the go.. so she is the type to "cram clothes in the washer and run up the stairs not paying attention to overloading. Well she has an 2000 model Kenmore Elite washer.. She had it repaired yet the dogs on the agitator snapped "again' I went over and watched her load the washer.. I told her I was going to arrest her for washing machine abuse. The machine makes a lot of noise and she kinda wants to get new or get an "older washer" That seems to be the TREND nowadays LOL a good friend of mine was given an older maytag washer.. he has to move back home and wants to give me the maytag for free to give to my girlfriend who wants to push the kenmore in the corner. The only problem is I never really liked Maytag washers.. I have used them before they rinse to short, the wash seems boring. Cleaning ehhh capacity SMALL.. again would I have a maytag in my house NEVER.. But its free and she needs a washer.. But I would have to show her how to decently load the washer. Dear friends I do not want to send an innocent maytag to an abusive overloader that does not mean to do it.. plus she has a family of 5 adults and one child.. Now my buddy said the washer washes great and is quiet.. Im sure my friend will understand strick instructions not to overload. Please feed back will the maytag have the stamina for her home? how old is this washer too?

 

[brucelucenta]

Let her have it. If she overloads it, she'll come back to a finished load with the soap still sitting on the top of the load. Probably pretty likely too, since they hold a LOT less than the one she is used to.[this post was last edited: 2/22/2017-10:28]

 

[pierreandreply4]

i think its dangerous to overload a waher i know by experiance with my inglis superbII direct drive washer i had put to much clothes that it cause 3 problems 1 burnt motor needed a new motor second cause the timer to break and skip first spin to rinse only on the normal cycles other cycles it did not do that timer fix and last but not least agitator broke cause to buy a new washer in 2004. So over the year i have learn to be carful

 

[johnb300m]

Maybe this is a good idea.
These Maytags are pretty good at handling abuse.
The belts actively slip and seem like they'd be a good sacrificial stress relief, like the couplers on WP machines.
I bet it'll be good for her and it'll just eat lots of belts.
All she's gotta do is change those out every few months

 

[tomturbomatic]

An old repairman told John and me once, "A Maytag will never do anything to hurt itself." That if a fairly accurate statement. She might burn up a belt or two and she might not get clean laundry out of it, but the way she treats a washer, she should be beating clothes on a rock by the river in all 4 seasons of the year instead of having an automagical washer. This is another case of pearls before swine.

 

[brucelucenta]

If she likes to load it up that much, she should get a front loader, they can handle it.

 

[appnut]

She doesn't deserve a washer if she's that abusive.  She should go to a Laundromat and abuse theirs.  She really needs a front loader--they manage to wash just about any load. 

 

[yogitunes]

well, its one thing to help someone, only to discover that gift was not taken care of.....

its another thing, that you already know what that gift will be subjected to...

if someone didn't take care of their own car, do you think I would let them borrow mine?

I think I would save the machine for someone who needs it!....

if you need the space and have to get rid of it, I would advertise on CL and offer it for free to a loving family, there are plenty of needy people out there, that would care for that like a treasure, overly thankful for having a machine to save them time and effort of going to the laundromat...

willing to bet you would feel more joy for helping someone you know would appreciate it....

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I saved a '90's-to-early-2000's single speed, three water level, three temp HOTPOINT at our old apartment from being so full, by my wife, that the lid would probably not close...

 

A good <span style="font-size: 18pt;">HEY!!!!</span> prevented that one more thing getting put in--and let me pull out the pair of jeans and couple or more bath towels that were the excess... Wonder what the laundry doing at my wife's old apt. with her roommate must have been like--just in short...

 

Fortunately, nothing, even when we did my late-brother-in-in-law's stuff had anything been close to killing our Kenmore...

 

 

-- Dave

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[rp2813]

That looks like a one-speed model.  If it doesn't have the large tub, she's going to cram things in it even worse than with her current machine. 

 

Maybe she needs to keep breaking machines so that at some point she'll come to realize the error of her ways and stop the cramming.

 

[brucelucenta]

She should just get a front loader, you can cram all you want to with those.

 

[gyrafoam]

I have found that people who stuff machines don't have very high expectations when it comes to cleaning their clothes. They are just going though the motions.
A gazillion Maytags have spent their whole working careers being stuffed and have survived. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[thomasortega]

@martin

"if someone didn't take care of their own car, do you think I would let them borrow mine?"

As we say in Brazil. Cars, toothbrushes and dildos should never be borrowed.

Who would ask someone to lend a car? am I missing any point? That's unthinkable!

Maybe i'd throw the keys to my husband or my father in an extreme situation like my car is parked behind theirs on the driveway and they need to go to the store on the corner.

I borrowed Darryl's Rav4 only once and it was to make him a surprise (take it to PepBoys to change the tires because the tire pressure LED was blinking for days, only to discover the problem wasn't the tire pressure but the sensor in the tire that ran out of battery.

As far as I remember, the only time in my life that my father "borrowed" my car was on my birthday in 1997 and he actually "stole" my 1996 Opel Astra Wagon and came back with a brand new TOL Ford Explorer as a birthday gift.

 

[yogitunes]

Thomas.....oh puhleeze!....

when you have more than one car, you have way too many friends/family who think you keep this many for when they need a vehicle.....

same goes for washer collections, they seem to think you keep them, so they have their own personal laundromat....

outside of my partner, only one brother that I share vehicles with.....and the main thing, no matter what shape you got the vehicle in, you returned it, filled with gas, washed and cleaned out, and placed back in the garage...

yeah, we been there from others...and got the vehicle back, empty, trashed up, ran through every mud puddle they could find......and don't want to hear of the condition of how they left it.....

it happened only once, they had a flat tire, left my vehicle abandoned on the side of the road....lost the keys in the process......and wanted to know how soon they could have it back after I had it towed and fixed!....are they serious?

that's what Enterprise Rentals are for!

 

[thomasortega]

i'm Shocked!

Common sense tells me to NEVER, EVER borrow a car, even if i need to walk 5000 miles.

When I moved to the US it took 6 months until i bought my first car. I lost some weight (excellent for my health), used Uber, and public transportation in Dallas but never, EVER i thought about borrowing a car from anybody.

 

[lesto]

I would never give a vintage washer to a person who I knew was going to abuse it like your friend does. Let her go to Home Depot and buy a direct drive piece of plastic crap GE or Whirlpool and tear one of those up. If you are going to give a vintage Maytag to someone like her why not just send it to the crusher and have done with it?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

It shouldn't happen to a BOL one-knob Galaxy or Capri!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[norgeway]

no no no

A Maytag is NOT good at handling heavy loads,If you can find her a Norge...THAT will laugh at a oversized load.

 

[thomasortega]

give her a Maytag Bravos XXL

I'm shocked! That washer is amazingly good and reliable.