[americandream]

Dang it. We bought the Samsung instead of LG, because of videos[1] that showed the LG exploding.

Top load models have a much large capacity than front loaders, but there are some serious challenges to overcome for these models that lack a central agitator column.

Despite being billed as "water saving", ours often has to repeat the setup for the spin cycle. It does this by dumping several gallons of water, sloshing the clothes around until it calculates an even load, then starting the drain+spin again.

If you are unlucky, this can happen multiple times. We are tipped off by the noise of the machine momentarily whacking into the surrrounding items in the laundry room.

It seems Samsung is offering "free repairs", but that makes me wonder if it's just a technician with a USB cable coming to reduce things like spin rate or make the machine even more likely to halt and prompt for intervention (ugh-- wet clothes are heavy).

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_z4fjiCz6tU

[smokinjuan]

The "free repair" includes "reinforcement of the washer top." I haven't had any trouble with mine, but I don't pay much attention to it.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/Samsung-Recalls-Top-Load-W...

[americandream]

That's good news. In any event, the spin cycle is fast enough (in the 1/2m•v^2 sense) that even before the recall, I wouldn't let my small kids in the same room with it. A repair still won't fix that precaution.