It’s hard to characterize in a single sentence, so I’ll just break it down into its constituent parts.
The Beep
When the laundry cycle finishes it does the following:
- It beeps super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you don’t run to switch it off, it will wait 30 more seconds and then continue to beep super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you switch it off whilst it’s beeping, it will continue to finish its beeping
- There is no volume setting nor any way to switch this off.
The Door
When it’s finished. It does not release. That beeping sound from earlier to tell you to come get your laundry? No no no, that was just the “come and watch me drain” alarm.
- Switching it off has no effect on the door release.
- It releases whenever it wants. It could be 5 minutes, it could be 20.
- When it does release, all you will get is a <clunk> sound, so you better be around to hear it.
- If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.
- It will then repeat the release process.
HELP ME. HE-ELP ME.
The door locks are often wax motors, which extend pretty quick when heated but have to cool off to release. The re-lock sounds like a huge wtf. Couldn’t they just limit the tumble rpm so they don’t have to lock?
I ditched my front load petri dish for a 10 year old Speed Queen top loader off marketplace. No regerts.
I just bought new ones, to be delivered tomorrow.
So i hope they aren’t much assholey yet.
Just hope that your new one now does not require a Wi-Fi connection and automatic software updates, which will inevitably lead to the company bricking your device 10 years down the line.
It doesn’t, I’ve picked it exactly because it doesn’t need any internet connection
Nice. I’ll be looking for one soon too.
Hopefully I can find something like that.I went for AEG, not sure if that’s available in your neck of the woods
If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.
LOL, WTF. That machine is too “helpful” for its own good.
My previous washing machine, a Samsung front-loader, did not operate in an annoying way but was much more of an asshole by the fact that it was designed with blatant planned obsolescence. Shortly out of warranty, it failed catastrophically and I decided to take it apart to figure out why. Every metal part inside was in pristine condition, including all the ones exposed to water, except one. The “spider arm,” which was what connected the rotating drum to its bearing, was so severely corroded that it literally broke into pieces:
(Note: not my picture, but mine looked the same.)
Samsung 100% used a corrosion-prone metal on that part on purpose.
Unfortunately, I had already replaced the machine at that point and I didn’t take particular care when disassembling, so I wasn’t prepared to replace the spider arm and scrapped it instead. At least I’ve still got the drive motor to use for some project, eventually. I sure as Hell won’t buy a Samsung again, though!
(In fact, considering the DRM on their phones, ads on their smart TVs, and other enshittification of the rest of their products, I will never buy anything from Samsung ever again in my life, and I recommend that nobody else does either.)
My current washing machine is a Bosch front-loader that I bought used for very cheap. No idea how old it is in total, but I think I’ve probably had it for longer than the Samsung at this point and it has continued to work without problems.
I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn’t be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn’t know if you’d really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like… “what the fuck”. It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.
Mine just throws a fit every decade or so, and stops generating heat.
Also, it’s the most famous appliance in my house because a video on YouTube of me opening my dryer door has almost 500k views
My dryer, my sister and I star in a video on PornHub that has fifteen views.
Stepsister. Or people will think you’re weird.
Funny story our parents are siblings too.
We’ve kept our bloodline as pure as the driven snow for eleven generations now.
Damn Ptolemies, won’t share.
This you?
That’s James William Bottomtooth III obviously.
We have/had a combination machine from Whirlpool which we got in 2019. It was fairly cheap, I don’t remember exactly, but somewhere €600 on a sale.
I’ve replaced the heater element twice. The shock absorbers twice, because as I was installing a new one the threads stripped immediately. I’ve replaced the drain pump once. Now it’s been sitting unused for a month, rusting because the heater element has broken once again.
Good thing we’ve got a shared laundry room in our apartment complex!
That sounds like a “sell it and make it someone else’s problem” situation.
ours is im the basement (rental apartment), quiet but likes to eat socks, the damn thing. I think electric plug is just carmouflage, it runs on socks
Why don’t they have proper ball-bearing bearings on the drum instead of just a bushing?
I had to replace mine last week. Okay, it’s been a decade of zero maintenance, and the part only cost a tenner, but still - if this was a decent bearing it would be fine.
Name and shame my guy
Bosch Serie 4
Hey bud does this video help? https://youtu.be/fkJ4VU6ldLk
Yes it does! That handled the beep volume (albeit it’s still loud on its lowest setting, but a marked improvement)
The door is still an issue, but this is already a huge QoL upgradeThank you good sir!
Namaste my guy. I too have a modern washer that has pissed me off
Washer is showing age, dryer is not. The worst issue is my hard water. Even copious amounts of bleach don’t get my whites beyond gray dinge with it
I use white vinegar cca. 1dl. I pour it after first water intake and I put detergent between first and second water intake.
I noticed better stain removal, color retention and smell improvement.
I may be under the influenece of placebo effect, but to me laundry seem to be washed better with addition of vinegar.Have tried that too with no luck.
Add salt?
Had an apartment with a washer that could wake up the dead. And of course, no alarm setting. Turns out, it was pretty easy to open the front plate and rip out the buzzer.
Pretty sure the washer goes on the bottom
Y’all have been to cheap with your washing machines.
Stop
whiningcomplaining and buy quality. It pays.-
Ironically, the cheapest machines are less likely to be annoying in the way OP describes because they have less fancy electronics (or might even still be electromechanical if it’s an old design, but probably not because PCBs and microcontrollers are even cheaper nowadays).
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Even expensive machines aren’t necessarily higher-quality these days, unless you’re really careful to do your research and buy the right brand. For example, I would not actually expect an expensive Maytag to last longer than a cheap Amana because both brands are owned by Whirlpool and might very well share a bunch of the same internal parts. The Maytag would be fancier and prettier, but probably not actually better-made.
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