Product review (1 stars): Clothes WRECKER not a clothes washer
JUNE 2013 Bought the Cabrio WED8600YW2 from a local small business which only sells Whirlpool products, as 25 years ago we bought mainly Whirlpool appliances, with no complaints.  My oh my, how time changes things. This machine does NOT clean your clothes, unless you put it on the heavy soiled option or the heavy duty cycle. You can choose whether to wash a small to medium load without much work to get them into the dryer OR do a large load, but be prepared to spend time getting your clothes from the 'washer' to the dryer.  The clothes end up twisted and knotted together, which leaves hundreds of wrinkles.  We are big fans of Downy wrinkle release, just remember to spray all your clothes before putting them in the dryer and they usually come out wrinkle free, whether they are clean or not. And that brings me to another choice you get to make. Do you want to buy new clothes within a short time frame OR wear clothes with stains on them. The normal cycle does not clean and if you wash on heavy duty or soiled options, your clothes will show very noticable wear within one or two wash cycles.  Whirlpool made a big mistake putting a see through lid. After numerous loads of clothes coming out with spots, I decided to watch the cycle. I am 49 years old and have never felt the need to stand by the washer while it was 'suppose' to be washing clothes.  There is hardly enough water to get the clothes wet, the 'cleaning' action is nothing more than your clothes getting tightly wound together and then the wash plate motion takes your ring of knotted clothes and moves them vigorously against each other. The clothes would show less wear if I beat them on a rock AND they probably would be cleaner.  A comparison would be taking six t-shirts put in a five gallon bucket, pour about 2 cups of water on them with a couple drops of soap, then take your hand beater/blender from your kitchen and spin back and forth, back and forth, while occasionally adding another half-cup of water for 40 minutes.  They may actually come out cleaner with less wear. I am not even going to say a word about the 'rinse'.  The bottom line is that this is NOT a washing machine.  This washer is getting out of this house within the next two weeks, our local businessman is buying it back, of course there is a $250 loss, but I would spend more than that replacing dirty worn out clothes and would like to avoid some of the costly repairs that I've read about that needed to be done within the first two years. And I don't need a technician showing me how to use a washer, which was an option offered to me.  Where oh where did Whirlpool's quality go? .... right down the drain with the clean water.. because the dirt is still in your clothes!