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Thread Number: 43894
Speed Queen 432 or 542 and partial drain? |
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| Post# 645336 , Reply# 2 12/10/2012 at 03:31 (4,152 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
Warranty from the Speed Queen website  | ||
| Post# 645369 , Reply# 3 12/10/2012 at 08:34 (4,151 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Additional Information | ||
Post# 645474 , Reply# 6 12/10/2012 at 16:53 (4,151 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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...they are orders of magnitude gentler on clothes than FL m
That may be a bit of a sweeping generalization, Jeff. I know you hate CR, but they report the following:
Speed Queen top-loader with a 40-minute cycle: rated "Good" by Consumer Reports for gentleness to clothing. Frigidaire front-loader with an 80-minute cycle: rated "Excellent" for gentleness and "Excellent" for cleaning performance. I wash all kitchen and personal whites on the 110-minute Sanitize cycle of my Frigidaire (same machine as above but with shorter Normal cycle) and have had absolutely no problems with wear-and-tear of fabrics. And I use liquid chlorine bleach to boot. Most new front-loaders have Normal cycles that clock in from 65-100 minutes, while traditional top-loaders clock in at roughly half that. No arguing that point! | ||
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Post# 645582 , Reply# 8 12/11/2012 at 05:25 (4,151 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Here's the warranty for my 2010 Frigidaire 4174 front-loader. Speed Queen's warranty runs circles around it. Jeff, I agree that when one pays $1500-$1600 for a top-of-the-line washer the warranty should be much beefier than this one. Frigidaire's top-end machine goes for around $900 in the real world, a relative bargain considering the features. At any rate, I'm assuming my paltry warranty is closer to the industry norm.
Correction: The top-loading Speed Queen's cycle clocked in at 35 minutes, not 40, in CR's tests. Time to get those bifocals checked (I jumped up a line). They round up to the nearest five-minute mark. Why on earth they do that, I can't explain. If the cycle is done in 31 minutes, call it 31 minutes! I don't place the weight you do on rating a machine by the length of its Normal cycle, especially with today's large front-loaders that can hold 22-24 pounds of laundry when fully-loaded. I want to know how well it cleans, how much water and energy it uses, the size of load it can handle, how quiet it is, and whether it will shake the house if not installed on a concrete floor. Warm rinses: I also miss this option, but don't notice a big difference when clothes are dried in a dryer. I can get a warm rinse by selecting the 'Steam' option (which adds about 20 minutes to the cycle). That provides a hot, extended first rinse and a warm second rinse. I use it for cotton sheets and loads of bath towels, mostly because I like opening the washer at the end of the cycle and handling fabrics that aren't ice cold to the touch. 
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| Post# 645625 , Reply# 10 12/11/2012 at 09:33 (4,150 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth) | ||
Sharp edges on agitator caps?
Sounds like extremely poor quality to me if a basic working internal part cant be produced that wont compromise safety of the very items of clothing the machine is meant to be washing let alone the users skin. Wonder how many Downy balls/dtergent dispensing devices made of plastic have torn clothes and users skin? Not hears of any plastic baffles/drums in FL's with sharp edges either. Perhaps its a TL thing......... | ||
| Post# 645695 , Reply# 12 12/11/2012 at 13:39 (4,150 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth) | ||
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Still when paying top dollar for a TL im sure the general public would want this agi cap to be safe to use seeing as it is a feature they have paid for to dispense AUTOMATICALLY the FS in the AUTOMATIC machine without intervention from themselves.
I know I certainly would or I might as well have a wringer machine. | ||
| Post# 645718 , Reply# 13 12/11/2012 at 16:34 (4,150 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Post# 645722 , Reply# 14 12/11/2012 at 16:49 (4,150 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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One Year Warranty 
Seems to be the standard for American washing machines. Maybe that is why Miele switched as well.
Always put major appliances on one of my credit or charge cards that will extend the manufacturers original warranty. If one is really leery will go for a mortgage and put it on the American Express as they have a strong program to deal with returns/problems when a retailer won't play nice. | ||
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Post# 645867 , Reply# 15 12/12/2012 at 00:22 (4,150 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Sharp edges on agitator caps-guess you have to get out your file and sandpaper to smooth them off-but why didn't the parts deburring dept do that? | ||
| Post# 645957 , Reply# 18 12/12/2012 at 10:10 (4,149 days old) by JeffG () | ||
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Again, it's the only problem we've had with the machine in 6+ years, with a purchase price of $579. FL enthusiasts are encouraged to compare notes. | ||
| Post# 646195 , Reply# 20 12/13/2012 at 11:30 (4,148 days old) by JeffG () | ||
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Sorry, I keep forgetting about AW's global friends. My posts relate to U.S. FLs which are different from those in the UK/Europe (i.e. most U.S. models don't have their own heat sources). Cleaning performance is much faster/better on your machines. | ||
| Post# 668992 , Reply# 22 3/29/2013 at 01:12 (4,043 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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The Amana machines of the 1995 had the same FS dispenser and it was sharp enough to cut your skin. The loading doors have been larger on the WP machines for the last 20 years. The "corkscrew" can be a knuckle buster too not that it is sharp just mostly in the way. alr | ||
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