Product review (5 stars): Take my TV before my washer and dryer.
We have owned our Speed Queen washer and dryer for about 2 years now.  I was very nervous about the electronic panel because we used to do storage auctions and would always find other brands (NOT Speed Queen...never found one in a storage unit) with cracked instrument panels.  I guess they built these things for NASA because they are still perfect.  We have a farm and wash dog beds, area rugs, diesel fuel soaked t-shirts, jeans, boots, tennis shoes, horse blankets...basically everything in these and we just love them.

The dryer was even plugged into a miss wired 220 (not our house) and had error codes come up...we called the local technician and they looked at it and identified the problem.  Not a single fuse, wire or panel was damaged.  These things are built like tanks.  The washing machine is about 2-3 times as heavy as a regular top load washer.  Be careful when moving it.  Do NOT throw away the spacer that comes with it when you get the machine.  You will want it if you have to move again so that the tub doesn't move around.  It is very heavy.

It uses water like washing machines used to.  It actually gets fuel smell out of clothing after you have been working on cars or tractors.  HE machines will not.  It actually gets clothing clean.  If you leave clothes in the washer for a week and get a bit of the musty odor you can run it once and it smells good as new again...HE machines will not.  We regularly have an area rug that has to be washed because of our old fat house cat that likes to use the rug as his personal hairball dispensary.  Without this machine the cat would be living in the barn with the other barn cats.  Fat Panda approves of this machine 100%.

We have never had any delicates ruined because of this machine.  I have a house full of girls and there has never been an issue.
I love this machine.  It was definitely worth it and is farm grade.