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I'm going to say all LG laundry stuff must not be created equal. We have two washing machines at work and they both break every month . The only tech I can think of that's worse are HP printers.
I fix ours (not my job, but it's a good mental break from regular work), I start a new job next month and my boss asked what he should do about them.
Meanwhile I have a pair of Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer. They're more reliable than my own heart and lungs, and I can get parts for them when a knob or a lid switch goes bad once every decade or two.
LG is getting greedy though. They removed the Permanent Press button so that you have to connect it to Wi-Fi and use the app to set that cycle. Same with “just rinse and spin”. The app is so unbearably slow that I was motivated to figure out how to set up a Home Assistant server and make my own custom dashboard to use in order to avoid interacting with that damn app.
The actual wash/dry performance is excellent, though.
I heard those linear compressors could be the best in the industry but they tended to fail. Did they finally fix that?
I once had an LG washing machine that broke after less than five years. Not impressed.
LG is positively vicious on clothes. Also, fun fact, it’ll run a gentle cycle with the water turned off. It only seems to notice water level on runs that do load sensing.
Miele, Bosch, or gtfo for cleaning appliances.
And if you need a full sized machine from either Miele or Bosch, you get to employ the GTFO option early since neither of them make one.