Thread Number: 76525
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Miele/Speed Queen/LG Washer & Dryer |
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Post# 1003798 , Reply# 1   8/15/2018 at 18:50 (2,051 days old) by Stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK)   |   | |
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For my money the LG represents the best value of those three sets of machines, acknowledging the controls-on-the-door seem awfully prone to failure down the line. The lower price allows (especially if found on sale, essentially not possible with SQ or Miele) one to purchase a generous third party warranty extension and come in about half the SQ. So if you repeated this LG purchase in 10-12 years you break even with the SQ...that is IF it lives up to it’s longevity claims and the LG falls short. But you get a bigger and arguably better machines all the while, and a much newer (10-12 year) machine half of the time if you opt for LG’s. The SQ Dryer is a pretty face on a dependable but crude machine. From my experience moisture sensing tech is, apparently, laughably, unknown to SQ. Read the reviews and you will not want to pony up even half of what the Stainless SQ dryer runs. Also the LG washer allows the option of a “mini washer” as an added option, that may appeal to you. I also have the SQ FL washer and it was a massive headache because it constantly required major repairs until it finally decided to work right. SQ would not replace it —they never do— so I am left crossing my fingers with every wash even though it has worked for over a year now...can never trust this thing after what I went through. Miele seems like a sucker deal for Americans...so I don’t even consider them really. This post was last edited 08/15/2018 at 22:56 |
Post# 1003801 , Reply# 2   8/15/2018 at 19:53 (2,051 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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If you are talking about the 4842... I have one.
The main bearing went out 3 weeks after I got it. Told the tech and Miele the machine will be replaced or Lawyers, Guns and Money would be involved. Since it was I have had two issues. other than that, with Water Plus programmed it is a Great Machine. Will dig around for the thread. |
Post# 1003815 , Reply# 4   8/15/2018 at 23:12 (2,051 days old) by Stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK)   |   | |
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Consumer Reports reviews echo these from reviewed.com; prepare to be disappointed: SQ Dryer review: www.reviewed.com/laundry/content... *SQ FL Washer review: www.reviewed.com/laundry/content... *previous model iteration, but washing performance should be very similar. A steep discount certainly helps, I usually recommend SQ if bought used at a good price. That said, here is more of my unfortunate experience when I bought a new set: SQ’s customer service is not ready for prime time, i.e. residential customers. They spent most of the time trying to weasel out of doing anything, and had zero sympathy, constantly suggesting user error as the cause for my manifest problems with their pile-of-expensive-shit machine. Turned out it was their shoddy and defective low-buck foreign electronics that were at fault. The main computer board on my washer (and many other unlucky SQ customers with defective machines) had to be replaced on 3 separate ocassions, often after weeks of waiting, while sucking up their sass on the telephone. Never again. It seems SQ really wants all customer care handled at the dealer level, so if you move probably best to leave the machines behind. And obviously, make sure your dealer REALLY likes you...cuz otherwise you are EFFED like I was. They PREEMPTIVELY alert you (ahem, if you call and ask) to their mentality by WARNING you not to buy their products online, even from authorized dealers! Did you know that? I didn’t, my bad...by which I mean: NEVER AGAIN. |
Post# 1003937 , Reply# 6   8/17/2018 at 10:15 (2,049 days old) by UncleDave (California)   |   | |
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Post# 1003938 , Reply# 7   8/17/2018 at 10:24 (2,049 days old) by UncleDave (California)   |   | |
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It appears the midrange performance bargain is the new Electrolux series.
Good for 22LB loads they seem to split the diff between the cheaper units and the higher end units. My largest weekly loads the queen size beds each fit fine in the W1 and my 4 separate weekly bins don't come close to filling it. UD |