18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Frequent repairs required, January 14, 2008
I purchased this washer 28 months ago and have had to replace the door twice since. The cheap plastic door frame is all that holds the door onto the metal hinges. We have no children in the house and there is no abuse to the door other than normal open/closing so over time the cheap plastic cracks around the top hinge (in my case) and there's nothing holding the door onto the hinge now so it hangs when you open it. Eventually the whole frame cracks and the door has to be replaced. It's costly and ridiculous that you have to throw an otherwise good door into the landfill every year. Disappointed with this product and should have done more research before buying it becasue there are many bad reviews online for this product. Do yourself a favor and look at another front load space saving washer before purchasing.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy - shoots water out the back, June 29, 2009
This review is from: Maytag MAH2400AWW 24 Compact Front-Load Washer 2.1 cu. ft. Capacity - White
The washer has been OK for me except for one feature - it has a pipe connected to the top of the clothes barrel, and sometimes when it is spinning, water comes out the top, through this pipe, and then directly down the back of the washer. This is BY DESIGN. There is no way to connect this to your drain pipe unless you do that yourself, and there isn't even an easy way to do it. I am NOT talking about the normal drain pipe - my machine has that ALSO - and it is connected correctly and works correctly. Maytag designed some kind of overflow to go out the top of the barrel and down the back of the machine - right next to the power cord, even! It took me a while to realize this, and now I've got a slightly rusty machine (where the water drips down) and I have to dry the back of the machine every few uses. Find another machine that does not have this 'feature'.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unmitigated disaster, February 11, 2010
This review is from: Maytag MAH2400AWW 24 Compact Front-Load Washer 2.1 cu. ft. Capacity - White
The person who designed this washer should lose their license.
First of all, the drainage has no filter, so if you accidentally put, say, a penny in the washer - or a pen cap or a button or any other such small, hard item that commonly finds its way into a wash load - it will lodge into the drain pump, which cannot be repaired, only replaced. This happened within several weeks of first using the washer, and took several more weeks to get replaced.
We have a toddler, so the child lock is an important feature. The child lock on this unit is simple for an adult to activate and impossible for a child to release. Only problem is, the child lock does not impact the power button! So in the middle of a load, if your curious child happens to depress THE BIG ATTRACTIVE ON/OFF BUTTON RIGHT ON THE FACE OF THE MACHINE, the washer shuts down in the midst of its cycle. Genius, huh?
But here is the best part. The outer perimeter of the spinning element of the washer is outfitted with a ridged rubber ring. And within that ridge is a cardboard-like substance which, when wet, turns into a slimy, smelly goop. Yes, you read that right. THE INSIDE OF THIS WASHING MACHINE CONTAINS A SUBSTANCE WHICH TRANSFORMS INTO A SLIMY GOOP WHEN WET.
As I said, the person who designed this machine should lose their license. Only that's not good enough. After that he or she should spend the next several years traveling to every household in the country that purchased this unit and apologize.
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