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Australian friends hepl please - SIMPSON washer
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Post# 483716   12/23/2010 at 09:06 (4,872 days old) by gorenje (Slovenia)        

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Hello, I need your opinion. I have an opportunity to buy an Australian top-loading washing machine. It's a SIMPSON Ezi Set. Don't ask me how an Australian washer end up in Slovenia. I would like to know how good and reliable are those machines. Are they made in AU / NZ or China?

here is the link with 2 fotos of the washer

Thank you for the hepl!
Ingemar


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Post# 483752 , Reply# 1   12/23/2010 at 11:23 (4,872 days old) by simpsomatic (Melb, Aust-now Palm Springs,US)        
Simpson/FisherPaykel

Sorry my friend, piece of junk. Goodness knows how it ended up over there. Full of plastic, the agitator is a dead give away for F/P. For several years Simpson, Hoover and Westinghouse put their own name on these F/P machines. Some made in Aus and some in NZ. You can see them lined up at the second hand stores in Melbourne all in various states of repair or disrepair. If it works it will only be until it stops working, wash action tragic. Good luck.

Post# 483763 , Reply# 2   12/23/2010 at 12:40 (4,872 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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Kinda/sorta looks like a Frigi-Scare.

Post# 483785 , Reply# 3   12/23/2010 at 14:01 (4,872 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia)        

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I can't confirm that it is related in any way to a Fisher and Paykel, which I doubt given that one is the others fiercest competitor, but they are not particularly good at cleaning and are certainly not gentle on anything...

The link is to a consumer review site - owners placing their opinions....


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Post# 483797 , Reply# 4   12/23/2010 at 14:31 (4,872 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia)        

Hi Ingemar,

That is quite a new machine, but those are made in Asia, not Australia.

They're not that much different to the earlier ones in how they operate, but these Asian made ones do seem to fail within a few years, rather than lasting 10-15 years as the Aussie ones did.

Its in no way related to F&P, it's based on the Electrolux Global TL design


Post# 483802 , Reply# 5   12/23/2010 at 14:58 (4,872 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)        
F&P

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I thought the F&P machines were relatively bulletproof.

Malcolm


Post# 483803 , Reply# 6   12/23/2010 at 14:59 (4,872 days old) by gorenje (Slovenia)        

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Thank you guys! 150 EUR is not so litle for a kinda "second hand" washer which hase traveled such a long way to get to us and only God knows how it was handled during the trip.
I was thinking to get it to have some fun with it but now I think I rather buy myself a new cell phone for Christmas.
Thank you :)
Ingemar



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