Here is what I am
NOT fixin' today: A 3-5 year old Whirlpool washer which suddenly started making noise.
Tenants can't do laundry. My business has been compromised.
I am so done with Whirlpool...a Michigan company.
Fking livid.
Behind that bearing in the center drive shaft, through that spring/shock floating plastic housing drum, there is an aluminum "spider gear" which turns the stainless steel drum within.
It turns out that part corrodes and breaks quite easily.
When that goes the plastic housing and seals or other parts can go.
Everything should have been under "lifetime warrantee". The drum and the gear have the same part number, and some lucky few have gotten a $400-500 drum for free from the company, but that took several hours of arguing with idiots. Most got the jerk around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qysdsFHNAZo
https://www.applianceblog.com/mainforums/threads/ghw9150pw0-whirlpool-duet-broken-spider-arm.30568/
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=whirlpool+washer+drum+issue&ru=%2fsearch%3fform%3dMOZTSB%26pc%3dMOZI%26q%3dwhi rlpool%2bwasher%2bdrum%2bissue&view=detail&mid=FFB9D2B0EC7086313758FFB9D2B0EC7086313758&&mmscn=vwrc&FORM=VDRVRV
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It reminds me of the
two months I spent living out of styrofoam boxes and ice, with the complaining girlfriend, and so much expensive delivery food, when my 3 year old Whirlpool fridge cracked a paper-thin copper line.
That fridge should have been solidly under warrantee.
Parts + Labor.
Two sets of technicians per their very own website were sent out but did nothing.
They claimed their own website was not 'updated', and those techs were not 'certified'.
I got the jerk. And not in a good way.
Final estimate they gave me was almost the same cost as the refrigerator after rejecting their own written warrantee.
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I'm beginning to think Whirlpool designs expensive time bombs into their beautifully-looking products.
FU Whirlpool/Amana. Go ahead and sue me for slander. See what happens next.