Best Fisher & Paykel Top Loading Washing Machines

Bad experience with Fisher and Paykel – Popular brand however annoying crap in playing up two years time with their stupid codes that constantly beeping non stop. Never this brand again, got LG better !

Ok so when washing if your doing let’s say rags the machine my not register that it has rags in it so it may fill up once again like a if you started a new load or it may try to push it out all to gether Show details

I could handle poor automatic water level sensing and the spin going out of balance too easily, but not the planned obsolescence. I requested a… Read more

service in 2026 on a 2020 WA8560P1 washing machine that was noisy at high spin speeds. The service technician did not correctly diagnose the cause of the noise and provided an expensive quote for unrelated pump and suspension parts that were not cost-effective to replace, which I declined. Within a couple of weeks of the service call, spin mode stopped completely. By simply removing the agitator, I could easily see that the screws securing the spline drive to the bowl hub had sheared off, evidently failing progressively over time rather than all at once. Upon installing new screws myself, the machine is now working properly again. The $220 service call fee was therefore a waste of money. I tried complaining to F&P but would have incurred another $220 fee for them to look at it again.

But this is worse than poor customer service. This is also clear evidence of planned obsolescence. The bowl hub has provision for 6 screws to secure the spline drive to it. Only 3 screws were installed in the factory, which obviously couldn't handle the forces because they sheared clean off in only 5 years. That wouldn't have happened with 6 screws. Unfortunately since it isn't possible to remove sheared-off metal screw threads from a plastic bowl hub, it therefore isn't possible to install 6 new screws after the failure has occurred, hence the best I could do was install 3 new screws in the alternate holes. I presume that they too will shear off in due course. Naturally the bowl hub is not available as a separate part so the whole bowl will need to be replaced next time at great expense. I wont be looking at F&P products when that day comes.

F&P used to be a good brand when it was a New Zealand company before the Haier China takeover. It's something much less now.

We have only just had this washing machine delivered this afternoon and already I can see it is going to be extremely annoying to use. We have had 2… Read more

Fisher and Paykel top loaders before, with a different brand in between, as I didn't like the first F & P. My fault, I didn't read the instructions and everything got tangled under the spindle. However, the new machine delivered today has the same feature that the other brand had. When you choose the spin cycle, it spends 10 mins emptying water before it starts spinning. I do a lot of hand washing and rinsing and use just the spin cycle at least once or twice a day. To have to wait 10 mins for the machine to empty out non existent water, and take 18 mins to do the full spin cycle is ridiculous. Sometimes I only want to spin for a couple of minutes. I ended up giving the other brand away to a dog rescue after 6 months and bought another Fisher and Paykel which I loved. Sadly it died the other day. I also often just want to rinse and spin in the machine, like this afternoon. The rinse cycle takes 34 mins. The quick wash takes 31 mins. Go figure. There is no option for a quick rinse. The old machine used to take 10 mins on the quick rinse cycle. And I can only have Automatic water level on rinse. I wanted to rinse a couple of things this afternoon and wanted to put water level on low. Tough luck. I never use auto water level because it takes twice as long to fill. I can see this machine very quickly becoming someone else's second hand, almost brand new, washing machine.

Brought this washing machine on the 28th of May. It was delivered on the 29th by Appliances On Line. Delivery drivers were fantastic. They came in… Read more

and unboxed the item and set up the machine ready to go. We did 2 cold wash loads on Friday afternoon. Machine worked well. With no complaints. However on Saturday afternoon when we wanted to do another load.... the machine was DEAD. No lights... nothing. Tried plugging into another powerpoint to check ....still nothing. Checked powerpoint and found no issues there. After spending $1086 on this machine to say we were disappointed to only get 2 washes out of it is an understatement. HOWEVER, I got in contact with AOL straight away and spoke to [Name Removed]. I explained my problem with him and he then conferred with his manager and came back on line to say "Our guys will be putting a new machine on the truck for you to be delivered asap. We will check to make sure it was installed by us correctly and if so, we will remove and install a new machine for you".... which they did. Come Tuesday midday new machine had been installed and happy to say at this point it is still working well. Excellent service by Appliances On Line. Not happy however with getting a lemon from Fisher and Paykel.

I timed the large wash I did yesterday - 3 hours 20 minutes! The quicker loads are only for small loads - 2 - 4 kg. Starting a wash early in order… Read more

to get maximum sun on it in winter will be a problem because early, the sun isn't on the solar panels. And there will be no two washes in a day, (if I want to dry my clothing on the line,) which I could happily do in my old washer which took 40 minutes. Why technology has to go backwards, I'll never know. To justify the massive price? Strangely enough, it has a 4 star water and electricity rating. How that can be, I don't know, when it goes for so long, emptying and filling about 4 or 5 times from what I noticed. I've done small loads which still took well over an hour and used the sheets setting - it washed everything well. It's quiet. One thing to think of if buying a new washer - this top loader is very high and very deep. I'm 5'4.5" and can barely get things out of the bottom of it - so consider that if you're a shortie.