jerrod6
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My 1996 KitchenAid Top loader
I paid over $700 for this machine thinking it would be great. It was direct drive and didn't make too much noise during the wash phase. Water pump outs were a bit louder.
This machine could never clean white underware or socks. I resorted to soaking the whites over night in LCB...even with that they never came clean. It could not clean collar soil. Worst of all it could not rinse. For the deep rinse it took 8 minutes to fill with 23 gallons of water while the thing just sat doing nothing, then it swished the water around for 2 minutes,then pumped it out.
After several months I developed a skin rash which the doctor said was coming from left over detergent in clothes. I took to running 5 deep rinses for each load and still there were suds. I was using Liquid Tide, then I went to powedered Tide and still there were suds. I tried Cheer, I tried Ajax, I tried a store brand...no improvment in cleaning or rinsing.
A year later water was running all over the floor while it was washing. The repair man had to replace the pump.
The next year one day I heard grinding and the sound of metal sliding against metal. There was the washer at a dead stop full of water. The repair guy came and said it was the gear case(transmission) He replaced it. While he was there I asked him to replace it with a KitchenAid part and he laughted while telling me that it was a Whirlpool "it's all the same just the name and the price and, the knobs are different" he said wule laughing his head off at my request.
16 months after this the thing was dead again - same problem, and it still was unable to clean or rinse well.
I paid over $700 for this machine thinking it would be great. It was direct drive and didn't make too much noise during the wash phase. Water pump outs were a bit louder.
This machine could never clean white underware or socks. I resorted to soaking the whites over night in LCB...even with that they never came clean. It could not clean collar soil. Worst of all it could not rinse. For the deep rinse it took 8 minutes to fill with 23 gallons of water while the thing just sat doing nothing, then it swished the water around for 2 minutes,then pumped it out.
After several months I developed a skin rash which the doctor said was coming from left over detergent in clothes. I took to running 5 deep rinses for each load and still there were suds. I was using Liquid Tide, then I went to powedered Tide and still there were suds. I tried Cheer, I tried Ajax, I tried a store brand...no improvment in cleaning or rinsing.
A year later water was running all over the floor while it was washing. The repair man had to replace the pump.
The next year one day I heard grinding and the sound of metal sliding against metal. There was the washer at a dead stop full of water. The repair guy came and said it was the gear case(transmission) He replaced it. While he was there I asked him to replace it with a KitchenAid part and he laughted while telling me that it was a Whirlpool "it's all the same just the name and the price and, the knobs are different" he said wule laughing his head off at my request.
16 months after this the thing was dead again - same problem, and it still was unable to clean or rinse well.