What is the WORSE washer you have ever owned

[askolover]

A Made in Korea Samsung built Maytag Neptune FL

We decided to get a larger washer back in 2005. Enter the Maysung Neptune....Day one, difficult to balance...thought maybe our load wasn't large enough. Day two...more difficult to balance...closed washroom doors and walked away and it finally spun. Day three, would not balance at all. Opened washer door and redistributed the load myself...finally balanced enough to spin out. Day four, took back to Lowes for refund and put my Asko back into service...At least the Asko uses water...it fills almost half way up the window for 4 rinses. That Maysung would barely wet the clothes, and it would spit the fabric softener on top of the clothes which can cause spotting. I hated that thing and have sworn off Samsung ever since. Just a few days after returning that horrid machine, Maytag sold out to Whirlpool. Next washer will either be another Asko or Miele...possibly Speed Queen

 

[joeypete]

Can't say I've ever had a BAD washer. I grew up on Kenmore/Whirlpool and had various types in between. My partner and I bought the Neptune in 1998 when it was fairly new. Set cost us $2500!! Yikes. We loved it though. The LG front load set I was using at my old place worked pretty well but what annoyed me about it was how long the wash cycles were. I used "Speed Wash" for most everything. That was a 38 minutes wash. When I bought my condo I bought a new GE HydroWave with matching dryer. I noticed that my whites were a lot cleaner than from using the LG. I like my current set

 

[ea56]

We had a Whrilpool Cabrio that was a real POS! Any time that I washed bath towels and jeans it would go out of balance. But instead of signaling that it was out of balance it would continuously refill with water in an attempt to balance its self. Well this didn't ever work out. Our laundry area is upstairs. I would have to time when the Cabrio was about to spin, run upstairs, hit the pause button, wait about 2 mins. for the damn top to unlock, redistribute the load and hope that it would spin when I restarted the machine. It would take over 90 mins. to complete a load. And mind you, I had loaded the machine in a balanced way, it was the Cabrio's "intuitive" wash system that unbalanced th load. Seriously I could have done a whole weeks worth of laundry in a wringer, with time to spare, in the time that the Cabrio took to do one load. I bought a GE gtwn2800 to replace the Cabrio. It is a simple, no nonsense old school top loader, with old time timer for a control, fills with tap hot water, no ATC, ALWAYS spins, never goes out of balance and completes a super load in 45 mins. I can wash a king size comforter, or 2 king size pillows and the wash comes out very clean. I use it with the Power Rinse option on all loads and it gives a full fill, agitated rinse that gets all the detergent out. Even though the spin speed is only 640 rpms, it spins for a very long time for the final spin and that compensates for the slower spin. All loads dry in 1 hour or less, ( 1 hour for a large load of towels and jeans, about 35 to 45 mins. for lighter weight loads). The capacity is very large. I'll never have a Whirlpool again.

 

[davidblazor]

Speed Queen model AFN50R model

I purchased this machine march 18,2013 paying 1,599 dollars and until about 3 weeks ago was a great machine. Now I have a bad bearing and other major mechanical issues and have had nothing from speed queen but excuses about getting it fixed. I have been in contact with Speed Queen/Alliance Corp and they are very reluctant to send me a service tech but I told them they send me a tech or I get an attorney. The machine is still under the 3 year parts and warranty and there shouldn't be such an issue getting it fixed. Until recent I have been very impressed with SQ, but I am not impressed with their inability to get a service tech to fix my machine. So I am going to say Speed Queen has to be the worst, but not because of the machine itself but because of the company reluctantly wanting to fix what is wrong with the machine.

 

[whirlcool]

Well, remember you danced around with the local dealer for awhile before you actually got around to contacting Alliance Laundry(Speed Queen) directly. And from what you have said before it sounded like Speed Queen was willing to fix your machine. Also it was the local dealer/distributor/whoever that was horsing around trying to get you to pay for shipping/labor etc. That was a huge waste of your time.

So I wouldn't put all the blame for your problems on Speed Queen. They are sending a repair man on Monday, aren't they? He should be able to find out what exactly is wrong with your machine.

 

[spinspeed]

Maytag Atlantis TL washer has to be the worst machine I have ever owned. It is really noisy, washes poorly and does a very bad rinse. It looks good but performs really poorly. I still have it but can't remember the last time I used it. I love the Maytag atlantis dryer though.

 

[DADoES]

 
Neptune TL.  It's an interesting machine to be sure but doesn't handle small loads or moderate/large loads of lightweight/slick fabrics very well -- the items don't tumble much, if at all.  I once watched a load of 21 oxford-type shirts of synthetic and cotton/synthetic blend fabric fail to rollover even once during a medium-soil wash period.  The lid locks and tricking the lock mechanism is not easy so the typical user wouldn't be aware of a washing "failure."  It does wash OK on loads that the tumblers can grab consistently.  Rinsing could be better.  It tries to balance a limited number of times on spins between rinses, sits and cycles the pump for several minutes if balancing fails.  It does try balancing numerous times before the final spin, and may refill and tumble once or twice (which boosts rinsing performance if such occurs) if necessary to aid distribution, but will eventually give up and beep for help.  There's no spin brake and the basket is heavy so the inertia results in a very long deceleration.  I had an incident of detergent burn (faded spots) on a comforter when powdered detergent from the dispenser got caught in folds of the item and didn't get dissolved/flushed out quickly enough.  I use the machine occasionally when I have a load that I know will do OK in it.

 

[thomasortega]

Brastemp (Whirlpool) 7kg Washer-dryer

I got it only for testing after hearing horrible stories about pressure switch failure followed by the door lock not able to handle all that weight and opening the door to flash flood the laundry rooms, it also jumped like a bull on every spins because it had no suspension or leveling feet and also, the traditional control board failures.

Mine never opened the door but once it overflowed through the dispenser, it broke a floor tile jumping (it's like the machine still has the shipping bolts) and finally, the control board had a short circuit and almost started a fire.

I was really happy to see it go.... TO THE CRUSHER aged 3 months.

 

[jerrod6]

some are not going to like this.....

but the worst washer I ever owned was a KA made in mid 1990's.  It never cleaned anything well.  It never rinsed anything well.  One day I rinsed a load of cotton dress pants 5 times and there were suds still remaining.

 

First the pump began leaking all over the floor as long as the machine was agitating. This was replaced under warranty.  Then the gear case(transmission) went. During replacement I asked for KA parts and was told by the repair person that I would get WP parts because everything was the same, just different knobs ,buttons, cycles names, but the same mechanicals.

 

A year later this second transmission started to go.  I ended up with a detergent rash from the poor rinsing of this machine.  My prior machines had cost less than this one, but none of the cheaper ones performed worse than this one. 

 

 

[adamthemieleman]

I haven't used that many so can't really pass judgement.

Machines I've used:
Hoover New Wave- we had this for over 10 years, wasn't a bad machine, at the end of its life it was overheating

Zanussi Nexus- late nans machine, not bad, nothing spectacular.

Hotpoint wma35- we were given one of these after the Hoover. Also had one in student accommodation. Machine didn't clean well and was noisy.

Maytag Neptune- used this at uni, can't say what it was like. Didn't think it cleaned well.

Indesit washer dryer- cousin's machine. Doesn't wash well at all, dries worse.

Hotpoint first edition- in one of my student accommodation. Similar to the other hotpoints, crap at cleaning and noisy.

Whirlpool- in another student accommodation! Didn't wash too badly, but got increasingly noisy as time went on.

Miele w3228- to replace the hotpoint, when we could not diagnose the fault, it could have been several, parents opted for a new machine. The Miele is great, cleans well and it's quiet, doesn't dance about.

I've never had chance to use anything else, although I would like to try an aeg, Bosch, Samsung, LG and Panasonic, and an old Dyson.

 

[super32]

siding with jerrod6

I had 2 mid 90's KA's. The first one i thought, "oh well, its not TOL". The second one i quickly realized it was the nature of the beast. It didnt clean very well, and the motor like to shut down under heavy load. I gave it away and decided to try something else.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The "Storied" Hotpoint from long-ago, some neighbors

Probably a left-opening lidded Hotpint, I'd heard about...

 

Right when the company got owned--or dubbed as a Quality General Electric Product--by GE--DUPED you should say...

 

Noisy, wasteful w/ water, and I believe the tub even came disengaged while it was washing, too...  So on it's way to that final fate, might explain the rusting cabinet and the water leaking from it...

 

The matching dryer was at least tolerable...

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

[liamy1]

Samsung

SAMSUNG ECO BUBBLE 12kg!!!

Bought in May 2013, broke by the December of the same year.

Loved this washer too until it completely died.

5 service visits in a month (partly down to repairman bringing the wrong parts)

But yes, grrrrrr