Our new washer did not even make it through one week without problems and it will be going back to the nice store it came from soon. New fangled technology is not all it’s cracked up to be. At least this particular GE brand of front loader isn’t. 2.5 hours to wash a load of laundry just isn’t worth it to me. And of COURSE we found some reviews about this particular problem once we started having the problem. But had I seen these reviews, would it have deterred me? I don’t know. If I were to avoid every washer that had a bad review on it, I wouldn’t buy one at all! But I do need to do laundry, so it’s back to the drawing board. Front loader or top loader, front loader or top loader………