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.
