Product review (1 stars): Puts holes in clothing and smells bad!
I purchased this machine about 3 years ago after my 13 year old traditional top load washer died.  It was unsatisfactory almost from the start.  Within a month of purchase, I noticed clothing smelled musty and the tub itself smelled mildewy and musty.  I tried doing the tub cleanse, but that did not help much.  We live in California so humidity and mold are not usually a problem.  We also tried leaving the lid open whenever we weren't using the machine to dry it out.  Nevertheless, if we were not home to immediately take stuff out of the machine upon wash completion, everything would smell mildewy.  Even things that were taken out immediately never smelled really clean.  But that was not the worst of it.  I started noticing patterns of small holes in woven fabrics.  My husband blamed our puppy, but it soon became clear that the poor puppy was not to blame.  The agitator on this machine consists of metal blades at the bottom of the drum.  They catch clothing and chew up material.  Over the two plus years we owned this machine, I had countless pieces of clothing ruined.  We could not afford to replace it and calls to LG proved futile.  Finally, when my 15 year old dryer broke a couple of months ago, we decided to buy a set and get rid of this clunker.  We didn't even try to sell it, as I did not want to pass this mess along to another consumer.  We had it hauled away with the old dryer.  Our new Whirlpool Duet front load washer is working extremely well.  Our clothes smell clean again; we can do full loads, and not a hole in anything-- even our delicate knits.  I will never buy another LG washer and have been so soured on the brand I will have to see nothing but glowing reviews from people with a long term history with a product before considering purchase of another LG product.  The one thing I liked about the machine was the pretty tune it played upon wash completion.  But this just became sadly ironic after my years of ruined clothes.  Alas, pretty tunes don't make clean clothes.  I wanted to share our experience to hopefully, save someone else from the same!