Hi Bruce,

I've got the Older W2888 and T4888C washer and dryer pair.  Mine are 5kg models and whilst I've been eyeing off the new 7.5kg models, I cant quite convince Michael that they're a must have.  Plus I'd need to get a new dryer as the 5kg dryer struggles to hold a full load from the 5kg machine, let alone a bigger one.

The washer is coming up to 5 years old without any real issues, I have it programmed in Allergy mode with an extra high level rinse.  I use Cottons 40 for colours, Cottons 50 for lights/whites and Minimum Iron 50 plus intensive for shirts.  I've tried using the shirts cycle and I find it doesnt rinse very well on a full load, so I went back to using Minimum iron.  It lives in Euro mode these days, so a Non intensive cycle (Short) ranges from 1:10 to 1:40 on cottons.

I do my wool blend dress pants on Woolens and spin at 1200 with no issues, Curtains etc I wash on Delicates at 50degC.

The dryer I've never been fussed with, in our damp hot Brisbane summers it can take over 3 hours to dry a load spun at 1800RPM, so these days, I've left the condensor out and just run it as a vented dryer.  In that config it works well, but struggles capacity wise with a full load from the machine.  With the condensor in, only use low heat for anything synthetic or knit otherwise the elastic wrinkles and the knits shrink badly.

They should serve you well for quite a long time, the problem is, once you've got one, you've never got any reason to replace it when a new model comes along :)

Cheers

Nathan