Best Fisher & Paykel Top Loading Washing Machines

I HATE IT – How well does it clean and rinse your clothes? Not well at all. No matter how much prep work you put in, it won't wash out basic stains. Double… Read more

bed sheets are wrapped up like twist ties by the time the longest wash cycle is completed.

Does it wear-out your clothes?

Yes. I'm left with tears, shredding, thread removal, button removal, jeans snap removal ... I no longer put delicates in it for obvious reasons. The internal agitator blades are just that, thin flexible blades for chopping and dicing your clothes.

It constantly blocks up. I have lint on my clothes constantly but it blocks up all the time. To unblock, one must become a washing machine mechanic and remove 90% of the inards of the machine to access and even then it still refuses to spin again until you lost your cool, and removed the inards two or three times in a day.

I do not recommend this machine at all to people who like lint free, untorn clothes.

This is my 3rd F&P top load washing machine in 30 years, bought secondhand from Facebook Market Place, works well, to all the people who compain… Read more

about the lack of lint filter buy one from ebay for about $25 that will solve the lint problem. Don't use fabric softener as this will build up under the aggitator and will eventually cause the drain hose and water pump to fail.

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.

Top spin has been reduced from 1000 to 750 in this model so towels come out heavy and wet and take three times as long to dry

Absolute GARBAGE!! DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT TO WASH OVER 7KG OF CLOTHES! We have had nothing but problems with this: - The inability to wash anymore… Read more

than 6 towels and 5-6 shirts at once before it errors - The constant green/ grey flaxes coming from the hidden side of the drum and going all over the clothes - The useless filters that catch nothing - It even errors when you put more than 1 bath mat thats 80cm x 40cm in it!

We dont use cheap detergent, we dont use cheap softener, we always allow only what it specifies and 90% of the time use the auto dose.

Our machine is now 12 months old and we have had to go and spend $1600 on a front loader because the $1300 we spent on this supposed 12KG piece of garbage is now gone never to be seen again.

Before this machine we had a Fisher and Paykel Front loader and it had an $8 bearing go in it after 3 years, the repair shop guy told me to scrap the machine and never buy the brand again because Fisher and Paykel are made in a way that they cant be repaired and its really crap for their customers.

I dont know how my partner managed to convince me to buy another and as expected - it has bitten us too.

Do yourself all a favour, forget this washer and forget Fisher and Paykel.

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.