All of the new washers, whirlpool or Maytag are not what they used to be. In 2012, I bought the mid range Maytag Bravos XL set. 2 months in the F51 started showing up when it would try to spin. They sent a repair outfit to take a look, who deemed it unrepairable. They brought me a new one and said it was 50 bucks if I wanted the old one taken away. I couldn't believe they did not want it back. 2 months later we were doing it all again. After the 5th time, I added money to it and upgraded to the one with more features, thinking the whole lot of them assembled at that time all had the same problem and this may pull me out of the bad ones. It did, because I didn't have any more problems. However, I had 5 other washers sitting in the basement all with the same problem. I asked the delivery guy on the last one why they won't take them back. He said they do not get fixed but dumped at a scrap yard where they are shredded and recycled.
After several years I found out it was the motor position sensor that was a bad on all of those and fixed them myself watching a youtube video.
They are made so cheap its not worth fixing it! Fast forward to last year I bought a new Maytag MVW, thinking the last ordeal was a fluke, nope. Bad Karma right out of the gate. They drop it off and I pulled the box off of it and a suspension arm fell out on the ground. Waited three days got another one. This one has acted goofy since day one. Sometimes it acts like its overloaded when it's not and fills to the top just to drain it and do the same for rinse. Never agitating. I got it once filling and draining at the same time, thinking maybe it was the way it rinsed, no, 10 minutes later its still doing that. Im not sure how many other times it did that, but the water bill that month was $300, including sewer. Sometimes it doesn't unlock the door, and you have to wait until it sits for about an hour. Right before the warranty ran out from Maytag they did a online update to it, and the sporadic weird stuff it does doubled down. I reset it to factory and did not connect it back to the internet and it still messes up, but not as bad. I calibrate it once a week. I hate how it has to run the cold and hot separate. A lot of unnecessary pipe banging. SMH, the A208 is looking good again.
After several years I found out it was the motor position sensor that was a bad on all of those and fixed them myself watching a youtube video.
They are made so cheap its not worth fixing it! Fast forward to last year I bought a new Maytag MVW, thinking the last ordeal was a fluke, nope. Bad Karma right out of the gate. They drop it off and I pulled the box off of it and a suspension arm fell out on the ground. Waited three days got another one. This one has acted goofy since day one. Sometimes it acts like its overloaded when it's not and fills to the top just to drain it and do the same for rinse. Never agitating. I got it once filling and draining at the same time, thinking maybe it was the way it rinsed, no, 10 minutes later its still doing that. Im not sure how many other times it did that, but the water bill that month was $300, including sewer. Sometimes it doesn't unlock the door, and you have to wait until it sits for about an hour. Right before the warranty ran out from Maytag they did a online update to it, and the sporadic weird stuff it does doubled down. I reset it to factory and did not connect it back to the internet and it still messes up, but not as bad. I calibrate it once a week. I hate how it has to run the cold and hot separate. A lot of unnecessary pipe banging. SMH, the A208 is looking good again.
