Appliances these days are complete junk. A washer from just a few years ago might have a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years. Our washer is 20 years old and I plan to have it repaired before I will buy a new one.
Remember the Maytag advertisement. What a big lie. Maytag is crap.
Sorry to rant. American consumers are getting screwed. Plus all of the old POS appliances end up in a junk yard or the land fill. So much for being environmentally friendly, ie, green. Green means less robust and heavy duty and more likely to fall apart.
Haa, we’ve discovered “green” is the code word for “it doesn’t work”.