Maytag is owned by Whirlpool Corporation, which makes ~all of the various appliance brands I've seen here in Canada except for the newer LG/Samsung etc. Any "FS

Maytag is owned by Whirlpool Corporation, which makes ~all of the various appliance brands I've seen here in Canada except for the newer LG/Samsung etc. Any "FSP" branded parts are made by Whirlpool. For what it's worth, the Speed Queen washer/dryers people seem to like, appear to also share parts with Maytag [1], which means Whirlpool made, or uses, or shares at least designs for parts, even though Speed Queen is owned by Alliance Laundry Systems, who also make the Huebsch machines in apartments, which, are commercial grade, but still not free of problems (i.e., >half of front loading machines in one place I've been in have the marbles-in-bearings sound when spinning, which a newly replaced machine didn't) Some models of Speed Queen washers I've seen people open on YouTube look suspiciously like a Whirlpool "direct drive" 90s washer. [1] https://ibb.co/PzQxxP6 https://ibb.co/PzQxxP6 - I searched for "speed queen transmission" on DuckDuckGo Images and found this listing that mentions compatibility between that and Maytag. I also recognize that transmission as a Whirlpoolish thing. Given that most appliances around me are made by Whirlpool, I don't personally have anything to compare them to. I haven't personally seen many extreme design flaws, but the parts are built down to a cost. For example, all of their dryer motors are epoxied together instead of bolted, like every other motor, probably to save cost at assembly, and conveniently prevents oiling and servicing of the bushing/bearing. The washer pumps for the aforementioned "direct drive" washers are sealed, and if something gets jammed, you can't take them apart to unjam them (though I've unjammed one before, and they don't cost much, and there is a ~good reason to seal it shut). However, whatever evils, if any, Whirlpool puts into their machines, at least you can get the parts, and compatibles exist, and junkyards are probably full of compatible parts, simply because the parts are all shared between most Whirlpool appliances in existence. I've had one example of a bad experience with the electronic controls on a Maytag front load washing machine. I don't consider a single sample to be representative, but the software on the control was poor and refused to spin-dry a blanket after washing it. It wasn't because the machine was unbalanced. It would rotate the blanket very slowly (zero shaking), and just decide not to do anything else. It eventually did it after a bout of unplugging, pushing buttons, and cursing.