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I’m Really Satisfied With My Maytag MVWP575GW Washer

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023

Here’s a bit of appliance review that, alas, I probably can’t profit from in any way, since Amazon doesn’t seem to sell the model.

My old Whirpool washer died in December, so I did some research as to what washer I should be. And most of my research was watching this video:

And the two brands he recommended were:

  • The Speed Queen TC5000, for which I was quoted delivery times of 6-8 weeks, and
  • The Maytag MVWP575GW, which I could order directly from Maytag in about a week for around a grand, plus shipping and install. So that’s what I did.
  • That’s more than you’re going to pay for an average washer these days. I’ve been using it for six months now, and I’m pretty satisfied.

    What’s so special about it? It uses commercial grade mechanical parts instead of cheap plastic parts and fragile electronics.

    It’s a dumb washer rather than a smart one. This has many benefits:

  • Once you press Start, instead of spending 20 or 30 seconds with the “Sensing” LED lit up, it simply starts filing the tub with water.
  • If you forget to add something you meant to wash, you press the same Start button, lift the lid, put it back down, and press it again, and the washer simply starts washing where it left off. It doesn’t blink lights at you accusingly and refuse to run until you unplug and replug the machine.
  • So far it’s never stopped mid-cycle for no discernible reason.
  • It finishes washing quicker, even with a presoak and extra spin.
  • America’s misguided energy- and water-saving regulations have left us with an array of devices that inferior to earlier generations of dumb devices at the main job they were designed for.