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Thread Number: 41856
Sometimes you just cant win with maytag.. |
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Post# 616930 , Reply# 2 8/14/2012 at 05:24 (4,266 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Post# 616991 , Reply# 6 8/14/2012 at 10:15 (4,266 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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The best thing he can do with that washer is give it a new address at the recyclers. If he were to fix the seal, there is a list of other parts waiting in line to fail. | ||
| Post# 617311 , Reply# 7 8/15/2012 at 19:35 (4,264 days old) by e2l-arry (LAKEWOOD COLORADO) | ||
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I've read that all the front loaders have a life expectancy of only 7 years. After the novelty wore off I regretted paying so much ($1000.00) for a machine with that short a life span. I just bought a Maytag wringer off CL for $25.00. That will have to offset the amount I paid trying to "go green" with a HE front loader. | ||
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Post# 617487 , Reply# 8 8/16/2012 at 09:01 (4,264 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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All WHOSE frontloaders? My Creda is from the 1990s and it is far from down for the count. | ||
| Post# 617491 , Reply# 9 8/16/2012 at 09:09 (4,264 days old) by jmurray01 () | ||
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They should call it the Maytag Dyson, eh ? | ||
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Post# 617541 , Reply# 10 8/16/2012 at 12:41 (4,263 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts) |
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| Post# 617544 , Reply# 11 8/16/2012 at 12:49 (4,263 days old) by rockland1 () | ||
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Maytag Co History Boy, Tomturbomatic sure told it like it was. I sold Maytag for 30 years. What happened to them was just as he stated. A real pity a company as good as they were at one time had to disappear. They were EVERYTHING to Newton Iowa. | ||
| Post# 617561 , Reply# 12 8/16/2012 at 14:20 (4,263 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
I love my Maytag Atlantis and Neptune, problems included. Pretty soon when everything says "Made by Whirlpool" or every time you tell someone the name of your new shiny Asian front loader they think you sneezed and hand you a tissue, your gonna be praying that there's an old Maytag out there to show you how it used to be back in the good old days of the "water hogs".
I cannot comment on what happened to Maytag's corporate culture, causing them to become a takeover candidate, but it is a sad dark story that is being repeated all across this country. Fix your ATLANTIS. 
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| Post# 617563 , Reply# 13 8/16/2012 at 14:22 (4,263 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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| Post# 617575 , Reply# 14 8/16/2012 at 14:59 (4,263 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
i think your better off fixing your atlantis washer as it is now a historical washer and one of the last true ever made maytag as now maytag is made by whirlpool and they chnage the desing so in a word they keep the maytag name but inside the parts are all whirlpool parts
if you look at this top load maytag washer it may have the maytag brand name but under its body and look its a whirlpool washer with the maytag name so in other word its only a maytag in name not look. CLICK HERE TO GO TO pierreandreply4's LINK | ||
| Post# 617656 , Reply# 15 8/16/2012 at 19:51 (4,263 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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I am so glad that my washer and dryer are Dependable Care machines! Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
| Post# 617709 , Reply# 17 8/17/2012 at 00:02 (4,263 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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The "Atlantis" is the Herrin IL made norgetag prior to the Whirlpool acquisition of Maytag? alr
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Post# 617759 , Reply# 18 8/17/2012 at 06:09 (4,263 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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"Front Loading Washers Have A Lifespan Of Seven Years
Really? That is news to me.
Perhaps these plastic outer drummed, all in one tub assembly with more plastic inside them than a Las Vegas stripper, but am here to tell you older and even vintage front loading washing machines lasted *DECADES*. You can find them all over eBay (mainly commercial/laundromat machines) in the USA but domestic units on similar sites from the UK to Greece. When designed as such front loaders can be totally broken down and rebuilt. You can find Wascomat,Milnor, Dexter and other commercial front loaders still running built in the 1970's. Yes, they may have add a tear down, bearing change etc, and may not be the most pretty thing on the block, but they still run. Front loading washers have always cost more to design and build because of their nature in particular keeping the water inside the tubs (no leaks). Which historically accounted for their costing more than top loaders. In order to bring modern offerings of H-Axis washers down build quality has suffered. Instead they are loaded with lots of cheap to make electronics that give the illusion consumers are getting a deal. | ||
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Post# 617775 , Reply# 19 8/17/2012 at 06:41 (4,263 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Miele frontloader from the early seventies. Still working. There are still a lot of those around.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO foraloysius's LINK | ||
| Post# 617797 , Reply# 20 8/17/2012 at 09:08 (4,263 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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well by knowing this looks like my 2004 whirlpool duet is at its end of lifetime use then since its already 9 years old since it was bough around this month at the same date in 2004, but its still working if after 7 years of use it would of stop working i would of known by now but i beleve that if a washer is well taken care of it can last a long time so i would say 7 years lifespan for a front load washer is an estimate as like i said if well taken care of a machine can last a long time.
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| Post# 618023 , Reply# 23 8/18/2012 at 00:51 (4,262 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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| Post# 618036 , Reply# 24 8/18/2012 at 01:59 (4,262 days old) by SeamusUK (Dover Kent UK) | ||
All front loaders only last 7 years??
What Launderess said......
When I was 5-6 years old Mum used to take me to our small local Laundrette which had Osby Viking front loaders. It opened when the owners son who was the same age as me came along. In a town 20 odd miles up the road from me there is another Launderette- guess what their machines are identical Osby Vikings to the ones I used to be facinated by- oh I turn 40 next year lol....... Seamus | ||
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