LG= Lousy Garbage.  Overpriced, poorly made crap with some shiny chrome over the cheap plastic.  As many people as knock the Cabrio WP machines at least they don't blow your laundry room up.

WK78

This is a LG or Samsung made machine.  The WP Version did not do that.

WhirlyKenmore78, there are at least 2 cases of Whirlpool made machines (Cabrio, Oasis, Bravos machines) exploding while washing mattress pads. They are just as bad as the LG machines.

The video joeekaitis posted is of a Kenmore Oasis (Whirlpool made) machine exploding. There are also videos of exploded Bravos machines on YouTube.

I meant to refer to Whirlpool Direct Drive machines.

I actually own a Kenmore Oasis made by Whirlpool machine.  I have washed mattress covers, comforters, and other large items with no problems whatsoever.  I always manually set the water level to the highest mark.  And if the machine does try to go off balance it always stops and runs a load balance correction.  After the third time of trying to load balance if it still cannot balance the load it shuts off with an error code.  I usually try to stop the machine and redistribute the load manually as it usually cannot load balance correct.  I have had the machine 4 years and have never had a problem with this.  It doesn't have a bulky cycle either.  I use Normal, or Delicate for comforters, and mattress covers.  Just my 2 cents.

No machine EVER made can spin at over 1000RPMs with an unbalanced mattress cover in it. The major failure is the machines inability to control it self.

The plastic outer tub in the WP built DD washers are very trouble free, in the thirdly years these machines have been around our company has replaced less than a dozen of these tubs. Compare this to the thousands of BD WP-KMs and Many MTs and GE-HP FF washers that we have scraped because they had badly rusted outer tubs.

Newer cars even have plastic suspension springs in them and major parts of engines are made of plastic.

This is a very sound way to build a washer, WP BD machines did it his way for 40 years, GE FF washers did it for 34 years, and thier current TLs and just about ever other brand including all WP TL products do it from the top now, not to mention just about every suspended FL washer ever.

So I believe that the problem is LGs, but after all they just copy our stuff but they sure didn't test enough, LOL.

The single most important part in WP BD washers was plastic, the machine would bang and crash all over the place without it, GE also had three plastic parts in the FF washers that made their suspension system possible, can you name them ?

Tuttle you got it right, In most cases when plastic is substituted for metal parts in home appliances and automobiles it results in a better LONGER lived product.

Something to note, it appears Whirlpool pulled that video of the Kenmore Oasis exploding... Something about a copyright claim lol

I thought the suspension rod balls were also plastic?

-Tim

Hi Tim, They are probably more a synthetic rubber, which might be considered a type of plastic.