Good price on the FV1409H2W, I bought my FV1450S4V for RM 2899 if not mistaken but PWP with the TC2402NTV last August for RM 999.

Just realised LG Launched the FV1450S2W with TurboWash. Mine is without the Turbowash or Steam Wrinkle Care but cleaning power is definitely much better compared to our older Panasonic FL.

Not really, we have been using FL for all I know and I still have clothes from 7 - 8 years ago which I still use with minimal wear (except fading due to sun drying).

There are some clothes which are damaged due to getting caught with open zipper but this is a user error more than anything else.

Whereas, some clothes which were washed by TL when I was renting in Melaka got worn off in just 5 to 6 months. (Causes pilling which is did not happen on when washed in FL)

Some TL are quite rough on clothes and doesn't really clean well...like an angry maid that hates the job so much and just whack the clothes here and there but not really clean

Better to get from same make, if intending to match different brands; for Dryer best if you can try to custom build a rack to fit it on to.

This will avoid the unbalanced load vibration issue.

Depends, newer Electrolux PCB board tend to fail very fast compared to its Asian Counterpart.

My family have used FL all the way; Elba (1986 to 1999, condemn), then Europa (1999 - 2012, condemn), Panasonic (2012 - 2020, Sold Off in working condition), LG (2020 - present)

LG cleaning performance supersedes all the other washers and machine itself is superior to Panasonic in terms of mechanical functions (less vibration, and distributes load properly for perfect spin; never had unbalanced load error with the LG yet; Out of 10 washes at least 2 washes will have Unbalanced Load error with Panasonic, even from day 1 of getting the machine)

But LG downside is after sales support, Panasonic Service guy was more friendly and approachable compared to LG. Lucky that we did not have warranty calls as of yet for the LG, except in the initial stage, due to wrong installation of the pedestal washer by seller; causing the top machine to vibrate excessively during spin cycle.

The feet of the top washer not properly aligned with the bottom pedestal washer.

Once that is done, vibration is much less; but definitely not as good as the main washer being on the floor. Our pedestal washer was delivered with a dent, and seller took it back; so we used it without the pedestal for awhile.

Pana top loader is ok, we have used Pana FL for 8 years before I sold it to upgrade to LG.

The FL was good but the suspension system and load balancing of Panasonic is not very good, considering these were the early generation FL for Panasonic.

Do check the level, Pana's 3D sensor is very sensitive. It needs to be leveled from left to right and back to front; but from front to back, there needs to be a slight decline (as in the water level bubble needs to be off centre, and leaning more towards the back).

Also, it helps when doing towel load, to wash more than 3 at one time.

Was hoping they corrected these issues on later iterations, luckily did not go back to Panasonic during our upgrade; though Pana after sales support person was so much better and helpful compared to the LG one (grumpy and did not seem like he enjoy what he is doing)

You can go for 10kg FL, FL drum size is smaller due to the washing mechanism (lift and throw clothes into the water, whereas, top Load at max capacity needs to fill the drum with lots of water, as water is the scrubbing medium in a TL; hence the big drum size).

We have been using FL all the way, from a tiny 5kg machine from the 80s and now to LG 10.5kg FL machine.

LG is so far the best we have owned, in terms of wash performance and is much more gentle on our clothes.

I am using this same model since last year, just that "shifted" my house to US address; in order to get it synced with our Google Home.

Mine is FV1450S4V, metallic finish but same model.

Does not come with turbo wash function though (which speeds up wash time)

Toshiba is a fairly new player in FL washing machine (after the licencing take over by Midea);

We are using LG and find it good, especially the 6 motion wash cycle which is proprietary to LG.

Inverter FL washing machine will be quiet, but during spin cycle; there will still be some sound from the drain pump; but not very noisy.

Just to add, LG & Hitachi FL are Direct Drive Inverter (no belt & pulley system) compared to other Inverter FL.

In practice though, I don't find much difference between the belt & no belt inverters except that the machine depth is smaller for the same load size.

I would personally avoid Panasonic, as it seems that they haven't resolved the unbalanced load issue.

Yeah true, and if the machine is equipped with low quality suspension, the belt becomes frayed too often.

Honestly, only our Panasonic machine required two belt replacements (first one was belt slip around 5 years of use, and second one was frayed belt due to bad suspension after 9 years of daily use) ; the other two older FL just died out natural death after 13 years (bearing leak), without any issue on the belt.

I prefer powder soap, Max Kleen 9 compared to liquid detergent. Somehow, liquid detergent seem to leave behind some kind of residue in the long run inside the washing machine door seal and dispenser area.

So far my machine still smell fresh after using Max Kleen 9 for more than a year now; the older Panasonic had mouldy smell just after 1 - 2 years of using liquid detergent.

You have to distribute the load evenly in the tub (if its towel, make sure its length wise evenly loaded in a circular fashion instead of one ball dump in),

we also have trouble running rinse + spin or spin only on the LG FL after doing manual rinse; it weighs the clothe and runs a deep rinse for 2 hours if it senses the load is heavy.

End up, now just do full wash without soaking, which comes out clean anyways.

Use Tub Clean with cleaner, if still persist, then have to call those washing machine cleaner guys to perform thorough cleaning.

Personally, I would advise against using Softener or Liquid based detergents, as this two will cause residual build up very quickly. Especially if you use both, Softener & Liquid Detergent.

How is the dryer performance?

such hardsell..lol

Hope they rectified the load balancing issue and better quality absorbers and also the gap between the plastic drum "beater" and the drum itself, clothes with string somehow get caught and entangled in that. Checked some new Panasonic models, still have this gap on the drum beater.

Other than this agreed it is a good machine, ours worked fine for 8 years despite two times of drain pump failure (user issue, parents & siblings don't empty pocket before throwing into the machine) and belt failure. Final repair was the failed absorber + tattered belting due to the absorber failure, supposed to discard when it came to this but dad insisted to repair; so we sold it off after repair job; since the drain pump was on its way out again. The machine randomly throws error code and stops sometime; so have to closely monitor.

Ours was NA-140VX3 with StainMaster as well, honestly didn't really find it useful and our LG is more superior in cleaning compared to this Panasonic, even without the turbo wash function and any of the touted stainmaster technology. Panasonic comes with the 5 nozzle jet spray, which aids cleaning; whereas, LG comes with 6 motion wash as standard (mimics handwash method) and turbo wash is available only on select models.

That said, the cleaning power of the NA-140VX3 is already good, but the LG FL just betters it; and probably because LG is newer technology as well.

This post has been edited by dayalan86: Jan 31 2022, 01:18 PM

Samsung is not direct drive, Inverter with belt similar to Panasonic, electrolux, Toshiba, Midea.

I went with LG because of the 6 motion wash method and also based on user experience; many had trouble free usage for more than 6 years.

As a matter of preference, I prefer LG's AI over Samsung. LG picks the wash pattern from the 6 motions (scrub, swing, filter, rolling, stepping and tumble) based on the weight of clothes in the drum; whereas, the Samsung picks only the wash cycle based on user usage pattern.

Mine is still going as good as new for 2 years now. Though now our washes are less frequent since end of last year as we are back to work from office. We use it almost daily during the MCO up until Oct last year, now at most about 2 - 3 washes per week.

Washes clean & quick although our standard washer (without dryer) does not come with Turbo Wash function.

Personally timed the machine, and it does finish faster than the indicated time (probably fill time is shorter as we are using water pump); compared to our older Panasonic FL which loves to extend wash time (due to unbalanced load, so it will do extra rinse to compensate for that failure) and finally throw a random error code every once in 20 washes (towards the end of its life with us, it will repeatedly throw pump error code and if left unattended will just happily switch off by itself without finishing the cycle)

This post has been edited by dayalan86: Feb 22 2022, 10:42 AM

Depends on the width and height of the curtain too, some living room have double ceiling height; those most likely can't fit into a 10kg machine.

Even the standard 10 feet x 10 feet height living room curtain, we wash the pcs separately so as not to overload the machine. I am using 10kg FL.

Can use those Washing machine washers, but I just buy cheap mouthwash and use that instead.

My machine smells fresher, I run Tub Clean with the Mouth Wash & then rinse the machine.

Wiping down the gasket and inner fold of the gasket helps too, while at it, clean the lint filter.