I don’t know about where you all live but our water is so hard I think it tears the machines up pretty fast. We had the dishwasher repaired a year ago and now it’s sitting on the back patio waiting on a new one to be delivered.
The washing machine is on it’s last leg but we’ll run it until it stops. At that time we’ll gamble on buying the $150 warranty. If they can’t fix it, we get a new one (which is how we got the one we have now). If they fix it for the $150 we’ll hang onto until it quits again.
We have made a promise to ourselves that with the new equipment we will run a little CLR through it now and then to try to keep the pipes and hoses and pumps clean.