Split tub washing machines

[rainbowlights]

I am curious to know who- if any- still makes split tub washing machines. I am appalled at the sealed tub scandal as you so aptly refer to it here.
Does Miele still do them? What about Bosch? or anyone else?

I would appreciate any information.

Thank you!

[don]

You can download all this information on the manufacturers web sites, people like Miele and Bosch do still make them albeit at the top end of their ranges, The likes of Hotpoint, Indesit, Whirlpool, Beko, Zanussi and all the other sub brands do not!!

Don

[andyjawa]

Tank units that you can also disassemble, apart from some Bosch and posher Miele models, to replace bearings and drum / spiders: boils down to Chinese, Korean and vestel Turkish made machines. As far as I have come across this is Samsung, Lg, Haier, Curry`s Logik ( which can be both Turkish and Chinese depending upon the model ) and a whole number of badged brands made by Vestel usually at the cheaper end of the market these brands can be Bush ( although some are Chinese esp the more expensive ones ), Electra, Servis, Royale, Normende, Pro Action, Sharp, Teka, even a Smeg. If this all sounds rather jolly hockey sticks bear in mind the spares availability is often not so jolly nor inexpensive! Samsung and Lg not so much of a proiblem though parts can and do sometimes go obsolete at the drop of a hat 4 to 7 years down the line or can be difficult to get hold of. Vestel and also Curry`s Logik stuff is usually a drum with a spider and officially, at least, a complete rear half tank with factory fitted bearings making their repair somewhat expensive to say the least BUT you can unofficially get just the bearings kit so long as the machine has not be hammered into oblivion ( the usual barmy consumer thing!! ) and so caught early in order to knock the old bearings out rather than ending up with a pile of shrapnel and an outer race stuck in the bearing tube that is near impossible to get out. All the machines that have ever been made will have an aluminium spider of which some are better alloy than others of which there is very little actual info: the more expensive a machine is no guarantee either and can rot out just as badly or on the other hand last 15 / 20years, my old Hotpoint WM56 is still on the original bearings but not the original spider nor its oil seal.

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