Customer Reviews

Maytag Performance Series MHWE200XW 27 4 cu. Ft. Front-Load Washer - White

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I purchased the 2000 series 3 months ago. At first, it was great. Then at the 3 month mark, it started to tear up my loads. No water, and as a result, the loads dry spin, tearing them up. If you have time to sit and babysit your loads, then buy this machine. I have lost approx. $150 worth of garments due to this machine. After weeks of diligent research, I chose Maytag as the most reputable. Now I am left with a machine that will destroy loads l. $600 for nothing! I will never buy another item from Maytag!

With limited available space for machines, my options were narrowed down between this set and one of those attached, stacked 'laundry center' units. Both take up the same amount of space...several inches less than traditional sets.

This combo cost me about $220 more than the stacked laundry center and I'd pay that again in a skinny minute. The washer gets my clothes very clean and does so with a slew of handy features that I actually use.

Front loaders take longer than top loading machines in general...in some cases significanty so...the power wash cycle (which I have yet to use) takes 3 hours...yep, 3 hours.

The whites cycle (use it all the time) requires two hours. If you use high efficiency powder you can take advantage of the delayed start option. I set the washer to kick off two hours before I get home from work, and add the fresh spin option in case I'm running late - this feature throws the clothes around intermittently for up to 6 hours aerating them to keep mildew from forming.

It should be said that the normal wash is just under an hour. Not bad I'd say. If I have any complaint at all, it's the sound dampening on the washer...it's lacking. Wash cycles are nice and quiet. The spin cycle on the other hand can be deafening. This washer has a max extract feature, which is marketing speak for its top speed spin level....it's blisteringly fast and wrings your clothes to a very satisfying level that results in much abbreviated drying time. The gotcha is that while it's doing this, you and your pets will want to hide under the bed. You do have the option to not end your rinse cycles with the steriod spin. Also, the set is positioned in a nook towards the back of my house but this area is only sheilded by a short retainer wall to the side of the machines, no doors, and not in a separate laundry room...so your experience may be different.

All said and done, both the washer and dryer are superb performers.

Bought this front-loading washer as a pair with the Maytag MEDE200XW dryer for our newly constructed basement laundry room (replacing 17-year-old Maytags that were working fine and readily found a new home).

In addition to updating our old units to modern, energy-efficient front-loaders, we selected this pair for (a) their stack-ability, a must to fit our small room, (b) their overall stacked height of 72" - the only pair we found that would meet our height clearances (most others were 78-79"), and (c) the dryer side-venting option, another must do to our no-rear-clearance situation. This pair also turned out to be the cheapest in this category, and the washer had several good reviews, despite being a new model, and despite reading about Maytag quality taking a downturn a few years back. (The brand is now owned by Whirlpool and quality & reliability seem to be back up to par with Whirlpool appliances).

See my review of the MEDE200XW on the DIY project to redirect the exhaust to the left side vent (found no instructions about what parts were needed or how to install available anywhere -- installation guide, the web, or even Maytag Customer Service, but accomplished it in a couple of hours with $10 of duct parts from HD and basic homeowner tools).

HD delivery did the installation, including the wiring, hoses, leveling and stacking (you can do this yourself but this way if there are any post-install operating problems HD will take responsibility to make it right).

Both appliances are now installed and working! The washer is very quiet during the wash cycle, quiet enough during hi-speed spin, very stable (no "walking") and low vibration, just as advertized. The wash cycles we've tried are turning out very clean clothes. The dryer is similarly quiet, nearly vibration-free, very stable atop the washer, venting to the side nicely, and is drying clothes just great. (I leave the subtleties on laundry operation to my wife, but she seems quite happy with the pair).

Overall so far: 5 stars; am not discounting for the lack of dryer side-vent instructions.

I bought this Maytag Front-loader hoping to get more life out of washing machine. Our previous Whirlpool Duet Washer had lasted 5 year (looking back that was great!!) I bought this in September 2010, at the one year mark it started eating clothes. The items would come out with large holes (especially cotton items). After over $200 in repairs it improved somewhat but now the thing sounds like a freight train. The repair man came out again and says the ball bearings are going out. It would cost almost as much to repair this as to buy a new one!! Besides the fact that the machine didn't last it also took FOREVER to run a wash cycle. Save your money. Get a different machine and if you know of a good one, post it so I won't get suckered by a washing machine for a third time.

If you have the time, energy and back strength to hold this washing machine down during the spin cycle then go for it. Otherwise DO NOT BUY. It travels all over the laundry room. Big mistake

We bought this washer 3 months ago and have been trying to get the dealer to take it back. Our clothes began to smell like a dirty dishrag. Dealer says, "You need to do more maintenance - wipe out the fornt gasket after every use, leave the door open between loads, buy our special cleaning packet." Did all that - the clothes still stink, and I can't get them clean.

YOU DO NOT WANT THIS WASHER!

I've had this washer for 7 days and am already trying to return it. Smaller items get stuck under the door and pushed into the gap in the door gasket. Every load I have run so far, I have had to pull out soaking wet socks, dishrags, etc from the gap in the door gasket....and they were not clean because they did not go through the complete cycle with the rest of the clothes. I called Maytag about the problem and they said it happens. They suggested using lingerie bags for all smaller items. Who is going to put all of their socks and dishrags into lingerie bags for laundering? You should be able to throw your clothes in and press start.

We are just two weeks past the one year warranty and it breaks down. I go in to check on my load of laundry and find that the whole rubber lining that must be around the tub, has come loose, ripped, and twisted itself all around our clothes. We have never seen anything like it. One year is all that I have had this machine. I don't overload my washer, use the soap that I am supposed to, and this happens? What a waste of money. I have no doubt that it will cost us almost as much to fix this as it would to buy new.

We are a family of five and do laundry daily. I expected to use this washer for years for how much we paid for it. When it works, it works well. However, it doesn't work more than it does! Within the first six months (while under warranty) the washer broke down three times. I wouldn't spin out the clothes and had error codes. Now, just two weeks out of the one year warranty it is smoking! When I opened the washer there was rubber everywhere . . . I am glad I was home or my house might have burned down! When I called maytag I was told there was nothing they could do, except schedule me for a repair at a minimum cost of $129 plus any parts. They said they stand by their washer, but in the next breath because of the fire hazard they cautioned me not to use it until it was serviced! They were willing to sell me an extended warranty that would last for another year for $322. Of course, it wouldn't cover it's current fire hazard issue. What a complete waste of time and money. I am going to put this piece of junk out by the road with a big free sign on it. It is only good for scrap.

Okay we bought three years ago. And it worked okay. But one day the water would not drain. And we called the repair man. He told us that it was not worth repairing. It is much cheaper to replace. Three years and the bearings and the pump give. Now we do wash minimum of two loads a day. So it does get a lot of use. But three years? Only three years? Maybe if we only did one load a day or maybe used it once a week it would still be working? Anyway we loved it at first.