Product review (5 stars): Good product! Use two people for final spring
Hubs and I bought our first home in April and the sellers left us their Bosh NEXXT 500 series front loading washer and dryer. We were stoked to have new(er) machines that what we had previously owned until we moved in and looked inside. The prior owners had never maintained their front load washer the way you're supposed to (drying it out, wiping it down, clearing the filter, etc) so the seal and even the interior of the front glass dome were FULL of mold. We managed to figure out how to open the drum and clean out the mold there, but no amount of cleaning took care of the mold in the seal because it had penetrated so deeply into the rubber. We decided instead of calling Bosch and spending an obscene amount of money that we didn't have, we would attempt to replace this seal ourselves with the help of YouTube. Well by gum we got it done and there's no more mold. I will note that the spring was a huge hassle to get on - my husband wrassled with it for an hour until I helped him by holding the gasket in place. I would recommend that the final spring step be a two person job, because it would have taken him 15 minutes versus the hour if we had realized in advance that it was easiest to have another set of hands holding the gasket in place while the other person maneuvered the spring.