We bought a Whirlpool about 2 years ago. Have had no problems with it, except the one I called the repair man for while under warranty. The dryer was making an awful noise. The repair man came out, took the dryer part and pulled out a wire of some sort. I blame my DH and sent the repair man on his way. I looked at the wire again, and realized that it was the wire out of one of my underwire bras!! I wondered what had happened to that. I was quite happy I didn't figure out what the wire was until after the repair man went away!!