What is your favorite modern top load washer (outside of Speed Queen or traditional designed washers)

[whirlpool862]

What’s your favorite modern top load washer (it cannot be any traditional wash design) and it must be a washer made in 2006-present. Is your favorite the VMW, The HydroWave, the newer style GE’s, the stackable GE’s, the Samsung top loads, the LG top loads, the Mideas, or the Frigidaire agitub washer.

 

[Chetlaham]

If I had to choose, the porcelain tub dual action agitator analog pressure switch VMW washers. Eddie I believe has such a model.

 

[whirlpool862]

If I had to choose, the porcelain tub dual action agitator analog pressure switch VMW washers. Eddie I believe has such a model.

I like those too. Straight vein models also weren’t bad. Straight vein agitators actually work quite well on VMW’s. Some later models had the transducer but had a load size option (WTW4800BQ), those units were fine also. Whirlpool actually improved the balance ring for the WTW4800BQ too and was less prone to violent shaking than the previous WTW4800XQ model.

Until recently, Whirlpool was my choice for most appliances (which is why I chose my username). Whirlpool still makes a good dryer today.

Back in the day the VMWs and the VMAXs were some of the better H.E. machines. I liked the Cabrios too but Whirlpool should’ve used better bearings and seals on those. The bearings would fail a lot, and they’d eventually lock up and cause a UL code. A VMW bearing often dint fail before at least 5 years, while a Cabrio bearing often failed in less than one.

The GE’s with the optional load sizes are okay in my opinion, but for GE you have to buy the cheapest one possible. No Profiles, no stacks, no washplates.

 

[Chetlaham]

Personally buying anything but the cheapest washer today is throwing your money away. The higher end models give nothing for the price increase, many even going toward a nasty impeller. I think all but one model washer is now is actually an impellar. The post no longer means anything. Its sad how people fall for prosthetics.

 

[DADoES]

Fisher & Paykel, which are no longer on the US market but were during your stated timeframe from 2006 until sometime into 2013 or a bit later.

 

[panasonicvac]

Kenmore Oasis in pacific blue. They had either a agitator or a washplate.

 

[foraloysius]

A European toploader like this AEG.