Product review (2 stars): Broke down too soon, after 4 years -- planned obsolescence?
We also had a Cabrio -- I think it was different model number but I am going to make the enormous leap of logic and assume that most of them are pretty similar under the hood! They all have that digital control center. Well, my point in this review is that the thing worked decently for as long as it worked. And then about 4 yrs and 3 months after purchase, it wwent on the fritz. We smelled a bad odor like electronics burning, and it would not spin and missed other cycles. Even after we "rebooted" it.
  So after talking to techs and considering, we just decided to junk it. Don't even bother paying for the service man to look, which is at least $150 minimum, not including parts which were probably the expensive  Control Board. Just junk it and move on. Now we have a simpler GE with agitator. So far so good.
  But it's misleading to read that washing machines should have a longevity of 14 years average. I don't think that's true anymore.