[Zeke]

I've got a Whirlpool Cabrio that is about to go. It makes horrible bearing noises consistent with what you can read on the Net. That and the lid breaking. Terrible machines but I got it for free. Customer of mine was having it changed out after 3 months. He bought it from Lowes for 900+ and the lid broke. They brought the new one and told him they had so many lined up in back of the store that if he knew someone that wanted it, they'd leave it with him to give away. So I got it. It's worked well enough for 10 years I feel like I won. But, the lid is all patched up ugly, it rusted all around the lid and now it's about to lock up.

So I was being peremtive and started looking around for a used washer when I saw an ad for a Fisher and Pakel. The guy said all of his dog bedding had caused the pump to fail 2wice and he was through. Well, the pump was OK, just a bit of junk on the external fan kept it from turning. I didn't have to buy one thing for it, just clean the stinking mess up. Dog hair everywhere.

I want to tell you that after going through this thing thoroughly, it's a piece of plastic junk. Yea, the famous supposedly high end German washer is Walmart cheap in construction. Nice and quiet though. It's sitting waiting for the big moment.