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Mark-- I wouldn't be concerned about the reliability of LG washers. Consumer Reports ranks LG front-loaders as the most reliable brand, with only 6% needing a repair.

Samsung: 7%

Kenmore: 10% (this score has improved, probably because a higher percentage of Kenmores in use are now made by LG)

Whirlpool & Maytag: 12%

Frigidaire: 14%

GE: 15%

All these reliability stats are for front-loaders.

[this post was last edited: 4/5/2014-08:52]
 
Morning, Guys

Eugene ~ Was relieved to hear that you had been recommending LG's to your friends but didn't know why--now I do !
When the installer dude said don't use it often I just figured he was kidding or drank the modern front loaders don't work Kool-Aid.

Rich of Washington State ~ Nice to see you again; it's been a long time. Thank you and and it's good to be in any Family you're part of. As for detergents I've been using the usual Tide with bleach HE, Tide downy liquid and some Persil from a newly discover German store in the area. Persil smells awesome. This machine handles over sudsing very well. Maybe that's why they have the never-ending solemn high mass ritual for spinning. All of these start ups of spinning and tumbling compress all the subs. I've over-suds just a few times and it's fun to watch LG's suds disappearing act. Hey, my accent is getting better--or worse-- with age. LOL

Alex and Mark ~ the Hand Wash is a real snoozer on mine too. It does a half turn each way once a minute for about a half an hour. There is more agitation on delicates but I'll have to watch that one more closely because I've forgotten now. I'm kind of on stimulus overload with all the new cycles running around in my head.

Alex ~ Did a lot of button pressing on first getting the machine trying to abort the door lock and to increase the water level without changing the cycle but nothing happened. Will have to do more experimenting. Thanks for telling me about that; other ground work has been done. Nice. Washer people are everywhere. [this post was last edited: 4/5/2014-14:30]
 
Roscoe62-- CR doesn't have enough data on Electrolux to make a judgment on that brand's reliability. I would venture a guess that Electrolux's reliability would fall within a couple of percentage points of Frigidaire.
 
I was reading once about

water hammer noises from front load washers because they go on and off with water so much....

It would be nice if they somehow could build water hammer arresters into the machines.
 
When the LG is doing the fill alternations ~

The thump/tap/jerk is slight but comforting, but when the WP's or KM's are doing their 5 & 8 second sprays, you know somebody's home, and I really like it. KUSHHHHTT KABAAAAM.

 

Something interesting:  Before I left for Mohonk, I turned the taps off on the LG. Hot is one the wall valve; cold runs off the sink tap so I can control the temperature on that line, defeating the  automatic influx of Coldwater that fills the sump and flushes the dispensers no matter what cycle or  temperatures are selected. The colds's  coming in;  there's nothing you can do;  resistance is futile. Unless the cold line was installed on a faucet that gushes hot water straight in Such power, lol!

 

But to the point: When I got home I did a Sanitary Cycle forgetting to open the hot valve on the wall,  but  the sink was opened and set to hot. I thought I noticed less water in the tub but since this is the first use of the sanitary cycleI just accepted it. The clothes were doing their usual Frigilux tumble: meager water, lots of high tumbling and  and falling. 

 

Returning to the machine near the end of the heating and washing, suddenly a cool down started, but not the atomized spray but a full valve  addition of at least 2 gallons of water.  So I need to try the cycle again to see if this is the usual procedure orphed added all that water because it got cheated on the fill with the closed hot water valve.

 

The LG then tumbled in all this water for several minutes and the turbojets which had shut off before this procedure, remained off and  did not go back out until the full rinse. This machine continues to fascinate with so much variety variability in  what it does that maybe a permanent mapping of the cycles is impossible, because the behavior in any given cycle is subject to computer whim--I should probably say computer calculation--depending on load weight, temperature, valve pressure, sudsing, and who knows what else!

 

 

[this post was last edited: 4/23/2014-12:51]
 
Sanitary Cycle

My Duet did the same thing at the end of the washing on sanitary, it put a lot of cold water in the drum before spinning.
 
One thing I have N E V E R liked about my Duet is the spinning.....It's only 1000 rpm at max (I think) which is still pretty fast, but it does take time to make up it's mind. But I don't think the entire final spin is nearly as long as this LG based on what you indicated. I hate that it takes these FL washers so long to go into the final spin. It's been this way for years with most FL washers. Sometimes, mine doesn't take too long to finally start spinning. Other times, it will stop and retry, EVEN if it should have kept going because the load wasn't unbalanced.

One other WEIRD thing I've noticed, the spin BETWEEN the rinses is not 1000 RPM, but the next one down from that (whatever that is), and occasionally, it will not ramp up to that speed like it's supposed to, but it will stay at the spin speed below the ramp up, until the rinse. I noticed this for about 3 years now.
 
Truth in Washink ;'D

Hello Roscoe ~

 

The cleaning is about average on the regular cycles, while impressive and eye-opening on the long heated cycles especially if you increase the wash time by pressing the soil selector all the way to the top. 

 

With the low water level on the cotton regular default,  the items go to the top of the drum and then drop into a small puddle, gentle and okay, but the typical stains around here on the white T-shirts  of spaghetti sauce, Berry juices, mainly blue and Rasp, chocolate and wine don't all completely come out. 

 

But if I use either the heated cycles or the  sometimes higher level water cycles, they're gone , " where the mushrooms go; they're gone, they're gone, they're  gone."  Cool old ditty from childhood .
 
Hey Mick,
My LGs are similar to yours. I however was able to increase the water level on the WM2277 to just next to the door handle base. Mine does the same cold water.issue but increases wash time and really gets my wash sparkling. At a local used stores lot,there's another 2277 in black and a few white models to be tossed. I'm clearing out my Duets,my Affinities and both Easy Spinners only keeping an A 107 that works great bjt I need to install the new brake seal because the tub turns freely when it's agitating. It is the only automatic top loader I've had in years. It's a bigger capacity ,single speed FabricMatic with no bleach dispenser and no leaking oil. The interior walls of its cabinet had no residue on them anywhere.
The lgs spin flawlessly and lots faster then any other front loaders (not including my many Askos) I ever had or watched up clpse. One mpdel ,WM2487, has the interior drum lights. It was completely overhauled a couple of weeks ago and got a brand new tub,tub seals and barings. It was reasonably priced($350) for repair and I paid $0 for the tub . It is gorgeous and I just found its exact matching electric dryer. I'll be picking that up on Thursday. I'll need to order the stacking kit at HD. Best new front loaders ever.The only ones I never had nor saw on action are the Samsungs. Not very fond of the brand or design.[this post was last edited: 4/28/2014-14:24]
 
has the interior drum lights

OH NO-- Did NOT know they came with interior lights. Well, this is going right back to the store. ;'D

 

Funny you should mention spin. I did a load of towel rags from washing all the windows, etc. Quite a big load, and I gave the machine another spin because the bulky cycle has a pre-set shorter slower spin. That sucker spun at 1200 for almost ten minutes, and the load was out of the dryer in less than 20 minutes. They really spin. 

 

You're getting great prices , Chuck,  on your washers--with lights. How nice!

[this post was last edited: 4/28/2014-19:04]
 
Now I know why

my washer does what it does. There's a misconception that the spray into the bleach dispenser is weak when in actuality, it's quite strong. And that's with the door closed. I have the Kenmore Elite version. I couldn't believe how effective the wash cycle is. I can do a normal cycle as little as 26 minutes. And this is with accelawash active.
 

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