Don't buy it if you think it will last longer then 3 years – I bought mine in 2005 and absolutely loved it. After being raised on top loaders I was amazed at how well it washed my clothes. Now here is where is gets ugly.

I had an error 90 code pop up in the 2nd year, they came and fixed it no charge, told me I was using too much powder. Did as they said and continued to enjoy this machine. Two weeks ago it was getting very loud on spin cycle and I thought it was an unbalanced load. Well last week while on spin cycle it made a loud bang and started jumping around the floor. Something was definitely wrong....Have I called a tech to come look at it? No. All I had to do was look on youtube of the thousands of videos of front loaders doing exactly the same thing mine was.

Countless blogs and stories of people buying these machines that only lasted 2 years...I was lucky. You see the manufacturers like to blame you and say your detergent did this...No its a design flaw that they refuse to fix and keep making them to bring in the bucks from consumers like us.

It uses less this and less that but after a few years it will cost you $600 to repair the whole drum and tub. The aluminum spider arms that hold the bearing rod and essentially the whole stainless steel bit to the tub fails. Cause its made out of Aluminum and is bolted to a stainless steel tub, it causes the arms to corrode and break under wet conditions. They will tell you the detergent does it, but what about the hundreds who used HE liquid detergent???. What about metal workers who have said the two metals are incompatible?

When it happens you have to replace the whole tub. They will not sell you just the spider arms and would you spend all of this money knowing it will only happen again? Its not worth it and you might as well turn it on its back and put a pot plant in it.

Give me lint, Bad whites and extra water usage any day. Give me a top loader. (its easier and cheaper to replace a gearbox or timer then a whole blasted tub unit! Very clean clothes, easy to use. Don't expect it to last, not feasable to repair, expensive throw away washer.