Product review (2 stars): Expensive washer.  After 3 years, I had to spend $450 to fix it.
I'm very disappointed.  First I would like to say that the washer is a good washer.  Is it fabulous? No.  Is it the most amazing thing I have ever used? No.  Does it get our clothes clean?  Yes.  Reliable? No.  What is frustrating is that when my wife and I were first married, 15-years ago, we bought a basic Maytag top loader.  That thing stuck with us for 12 years....still going strong when we decided to "upgrade" to a popular front loader when we were doing some updates to our home.  We spent good money on the stacking Whirlpool duet.  Looks great!  We've got 3 busy boys and a lot of laundry.  Then two days ago we got the dreaded F01 E06 error codes. After having an appliance repair person diagnose our machine...it was a bad control board.  $250 for the part and $200 for our appliance repair person (who was great).  Just wanted to let the public know that this doesn't seem to be an uncommon problem.  Whirlpool sure is making a lot of money off of this part.  IMO