Product review (1 stars): unreliable
Our two person household used our new Maytag 4000 series washer for little more than a year before we noticed it had become much noisier than before.  By 26 months of use, we called a Sears repairman who told us it would cost over $800 to repair due to failure of the bearings, tub, etc. and by this time the warranty had expired only two months earlier.  We called the Maytag service number and they offered no help for parts, standing firmly on the warranty expiration.
So if yours starts getting noisy while still under warranty, call for repair immediately.
We trusted the Maytag brand reputation and were sorely disappointed.  Whirlpool washers are essentially the same manufacture.  I firmly recommend against buying either of these.  To replace it we checked Consumer reports which indicated that LG and Samsung had better reliability ratings, so we went with that.