Vacuum cleaners suck, Compressors.....

Vacuum cleaners suck. Compressors blow. I need a washing machine that does neither.

Looking for currently available washing machine that does do the following and are not budget busters. I dont need 12 options, just 1 setting would be great, called clean.

1) remove driveway residue thats ground it after an oil change on my back under my car.

2) remove grass stains after a day doing yard work

3) remove plant matter that is stuck to the legs of my pants after some heavy duty weed wacking.

4) remove engine grime from my clothes

5) does not make non gym clothes that accidentally make it into the wash with gym clothes or smelly towels come out smelling like used gym clothes or smelly towels.

I currently have a modern top loader, that fails all 5 of the above. My whites are turning yellow, car and yard work clothes come out looking like they did when they went in. Towels and gym clothes need 4 extra rinses so they dont smell like they have been used for a month the first time they get a bit damp.

I have heard and tried everything, more soap, less soap, different soap, borax, arm and hammer, more water, leave the top open when not in use, extra rinse, extra spin, run fabric softer selection even if not using fab softener, put a towel on top of the clothes to hold them down.....

Its just a poor design. Not enough agitation to clean well, not enough water to carry dirt away (just end up with clean weed wacker residue on you pants), adding more water causes the clothes to float, but then you loose the little agitation there was to start with.

The only good thing is the high speed spin at the end that saves drying time, but it does not make up for the fact that the wash is about 3 time longer than my old machine.

I really wish I replaced the wig wags on my 25 (maybe older) machine instead of buying a new one. I have had the current one for 3 years, and with a broken collar bone, I have not been able to do the stop it and manually agitate for 10 minutes routine, so I have officially had it with this machine and want to replace it with one that does not suck or blow, but does actually clean. Doing my research now for Black Friday sales, but I might not even wait that long....

What do you have and more importantly, does it clean well.

might look at some of the newer frontloaders with steam-washer tech. That said, I havent had to resort to that...

The last time washer came up, the general consensus was to get a used Speed Queen.

Even a new speed queen isn't that bad price wise compared to that computerized 3 year working life crap that's so popular these days.

Paid...$800? $850? For mine brand new with a warranty and everything to replace a 25 year old GE.

After having used one of those fancy $2500 computerized washers, the speed queen blows it absolutely out of the water.

All I know is apparently Samsung just found out that some of their machines got the cycles labeled wrong so they sent out packets with a new sticker and directions on how to decide if you need it or not.

I have a really odd washer. It is an older Maytag Bravos, universally regarded as one of the worst machines ever made. Thing is, I bought it second-hand from a store the refurbishes and resells appliances. It has been kicking butt for 5 years now with zero issues. Whatever they did to it improved it. Weird.

Speed Queen. Second up from the cheapest. That is the full commercial model, stainless tank, etc. We got the next one up from there, and the only difference is one extra button to add an extra rinse, which we never use. I bought that one because it was in stock and the one without the extra button was out of stock.

I'll be honest, I'm not even in the market at the moment but I'm sold on speed queen just for the name speed queen.

We bought a Maytag MHW3505FW earlier this year after I replaced the drain pump and boot seal on an older Samsung only to have it break the spider mount immediately upon starting it up.

I'm pretty sure it's had 2 loads every other day through it since we got it in February. Big selling point was that it heats its own water for the sanitize cycle as my son is in cloth diapers. It also has one hell of a spin cycle which greatly reduces drying times. Bonus points for also being really quiet.

My email receipt says I paid $569.05 out the door with delivery and haul away from the blue and white big box store.

Another vote for Speed Queen. It's the spiritual decendent of the dead-nuts reliable washers from the 1980s. Plus it's mostly US-made, if that matters to you. Our previous washer was stuffed full of lowest-bidder Schzenzhen-made components.