You-all hate your new Maytag/Whirlpool washer?

[demlion]

Basic premise for me: Why pay someone that barely made it through high school to perform repairs that are not rocket science - when you were smart enough to get a PSU engineering degree and work in the technical field? It's a nice luxury to let someone else do the work, but a significant money saver to do it yourself, especially a job like brake pads & rotors.... Especially when there is youtube to get you started.

I applaud the basic premise of your letter. However, when you are working on your OWN STUFF, there can be a significant impairment of your objectivity, your patience, and yours and your family's emotional well-being.

If you change pads and rotors for a living, and you fail to get it done right, worst case there is a delay in the customer getting his car back. When you are doing it under your own shade tree on your own car, you could find yourself without transportation if you F it up. Stakes are raised automatically.

I never saw a mechanic throw tools when he was working on my car, only when he was working on his own.

PS---wait until your wife says, "I TOLD you we should have taken this to a mechanic."

 

[AWS1022]

Basic premise for me: Why pay someone that barely made it through high school to perform repairs that are not rocket science - when you were smart enough to get a PSU engineering degree and work in the technical field? It's a nice luxury to let someone else do the work, but a significant money saver to do it yourself, especially a job like brake pads & rotors.... Especially when there is youtube to get you started.

I make money so that I don’t have to do that sh!t myself.

 

[GregInPitt]

I make money so that I don’t have to do that sh!t myself.

Yep, I did as well, but retired early as I didn't waste it.

 

[AWS1022]

Yep, I did as well, but retired early as I didn't waste it.

Or make enough that you dont have to worry about it.

 

[GregInPitt]

Or make enough that you dont have to worry about it.

Never really worried about it. And I feel safer installing brakes on my family's cars, rather than trust it to to those that may be high school dropouts.

Was interesting to know how to fix things. Still is. Only I have a lot more time to get into things now. I don't really like to play golf more than 3 times per week.

 

[gogolion]

I make money so that I don’t have to do that sh!t myself.

Us engineer types like fixing/building things. It's fun and you get a great sense of satisfaction. There are plenty of things I don't feel comfortable doing properly myself (or don't have time for) and I don't have any problem with farming those out to the pros.

 

[emrtmakesshiteup]

BTW! The new one is a top load; I too repair most things, however, in this case "google" had to broad a range of what was causing the issue. After my best shot at the diagnosis and seeing the part I received was not correct, I surrendered; As for the 18 year old Maytag that was most faithful until now, it supported a family of six. The girls, particularly used it after every practice during all three seasons thus, for all practical purposes it hammered away daily for nine months and then there was summer lifeguarding washing. Throw in the boys and mom and dad and you get the picture; It is badged 10 Year Warranty... we'll see; Lastly, the new machine cleans great, it's just most annoying!

 

[lostlion]

@lostlion
Where are you?

I'm here and still lost but tired now

 

[lostlion]

Agoodnap

@lostlion is here, just using an alias

Front load washers do have issues that you’ll never see on top loaders because the tribal knowledge history just doesn’t exist yet.
The mold issue is the worst. Other than adding a forced air drying cycle to the units I don’t know how to 100% fix that in machine design. If the owner will leave the door open when not using the unit it would help but that’s not gonna happen.
What front loaders and agaitatorless top load machines do best is clean and handle the clothes more gently besides saving water.
Electronic controls are getting better but the mechanical controls will probably outlast them 5:1.
The time estimates on the washers and dryers are nice but drying is mostly a guess and really dependent on the load. The sensor in the dryer drum is a contact moisture type and it signals the processor based on the number of hits it receives. The algorithm is constantly being improved but sometimes you’ll see the numbers fall and then go back up.
As a industry vet, I’d never buy foreign units because of reliability and operating quality issues. And I’ll never buy a washer with an agitator. The electronic controlls are almost necessary in the higher end/volume units so I’ll have to go there.
I’m lucky to have a 2006 Whirlpool Duet front load washer at home and have never had an issue. My daughter is amazed at how well it maintains the ‘looks new’ aspect in her clothes. But she does complain how it turns everything inside out.
My dryer matches the washer and is solid. Should be as I led the manufacturing introduction on that model. But really, the front load matched pair uses mostly old drying technology that has incrementally improved over the last seventy years. Front load washers have to gain some history on that.
Good to hear folks are fixing their machines. I love to tinker on stuff but fortunately laundry hasn’t needed it.
Good luck to all.
And please, don’t fall for the Korean crap in the marketplace today. You be so sorry.

lostlion seems to be my iPad identity and TiredOldLion is my iPhone identity.
I guess I can argue with myself.

 

[Woodpecker]

I'd blame the crappy appliance life on capitalism. Maybe not blame, but planned obsolescence is the way these companies increase profit. Sure they could build a quality unit, but why build something that lasts 20 years when they can build a cheap one that lasts ~7 max and sell basically 2 more units in the lifespan of a previous model.

Check out this documentary when you have an hour as it compares the long lives of appliances built in the soviet era as opposed to the planned obsolescence model.

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Really makes the case for the fact that if you want companies to grow you can't have them building units that are such good quality that people will only buy a unit once every 20-30 years.

Da, tovarish. I remember good old days when Russia was communist and made quality products

Now we only care about manipulating Americans through social media. I too long for those good old days, comrade.