Product review (1 stars): breaks down regularly
purchased fall of 2008

So, the repair guy came - the problem was once again that pennies and such were not removed from laundry before washing.  This never happened with the old non HE models, and hasn't happened in another brand of HE machine that we own.

I complained that that was silly - every time anyone misses a penny or two we can expect it to break shortly thereafter.

He said yes, that is the way it works with Maytag.  And if we complain to them that it happened because of pennies - they will claim it is customer abuse of the machine and they won't pay for any repairs.

It seems he also thought the machine was poorly designed.