I've never, never had a problem with my Maytag 3000 series. Have had for more than 10 years now. Has lasted through raising 3 active boys, 1 messy little girl, and a construction working husband. Manually wipe it out occasionally, use Afresh tablets occasionally as well. Even double stacked it with the dryer on top about a year ago and still works like a charm!

Always a pleasure to be able to do laundry at home.

WE bought ours at the end of 2008. It's been a good performer so far. We haven't had to make any repairs on it at all.The monthly cleaning is a must: we caught ours just in time; I think we went 6 months and noticed some "crud" developing. I gave it a good manual cleaning and started cleaning it every month and so far it's been great.If you're not willing to do the monthly cleaning on it, you're definitely not going to be happy.