UseAndCare ONE SPEED AUTOMATIC

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1 UseAndCare A Note to You... 2 Washer Safety... 3 Parts and Features... 4 Operating Your Washer... 5 Starting your washer... 5 Stopping/restarting your washer... 5 Seecting a cyce and time... 6 Using Rinse and Spin... 7 Using Drain and Spin... 7 What happens in each cyce... 7 Adding iquid chorine beach... 8 Adding iquid fabric softener MAGIC CLEAN* int fiter... 8 Caring for Your Washer... 9 Laundry Tips Removing Stains Troubeshooting Requesting Assistance or Service Warranty ONE SPEED AUTOMATIC WASHER PART NO

2 A Note to You Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, WHIRLPOOL* washers are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It contains vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your washer propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service on Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your Seria Number compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode Purchase Date and seria number pate (see diagram on Deaer Name page 4 for ocation of pate). Pease aso record the purchase date of Deaer Address your appiance and your deaer s name, Deaer Phone address, and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. 2

3 Washer Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia This symbo aerts you to such dangers attention to these symbos and foow any as fire, eectrica shock, burns, and instructions given. Here is a brief expana- persona injury. tion of the symbo. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read a instructions before using your washer. Do not machine wash or machine dry items ceaned, washed, soaked in, or spotted with wax, paint, gasoine, oi, or other fammabe fuids. The fumes can create a fire hazard or exposion. Aways hand wash and ine dry items containing these materias. Fammabe fuids (dry-ceaning sovents, kerosene, gasoine, etc.) shoud not be used or stored in or near your washer. Do not add fammabe fuids to your wash water. These substances give off vapours that can create a fire hazard or exposion. Do not aow chidren to operate, pay with, or craw on or inside your washer. Supervise chidren cosey when your washer is used near them. Before your washer is removed from service or discarded, remove the id to prevent accidenta entrapment. *After starting a cyce, do not reach into the basket uness the Cyce Contro Knob is pushed in and a motion stops. *Do not tamper with the contros. Understanding your responsibiities - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - If your hot water has not been used recenty (usuay 2 weeks or onger), hydrogen gases may buid up in your water heater and your hot water pipes. HYDROGEN GAS IS EXPLOSIVE. To prevent injury or damage, before using your washer, turn on a hot water faucets and aow water to run for severa minutes. This wi aow gases to escape. Do not smoke or use any open fame near your faucet whie it is open. Pease... *Have ony a quaified person insta, repair, or repace parts on washer. Maintain washer propery. *Protect washer from the weather and keep it where the temperature wi not fa beow freezing. Insta and eve washer on a foor that can support the weight.+ Connect washer to the correct 3-prong outet, eectrica suppy, water suppy, and drain.+ aground washer propery.+ + See the Instaation Instructions. Store aundry aids and other materias in a Do not use chorine beach and ammonia coo, dry pace where chidren cannot reach or acids (such as vinegar or rust remover) them (in a ocked cabinet if possibe). in the same wash. Hazardous fumes Read and foow instructions on packages can form. of detergent and aundry aids, especiay Unpug power suppy cord before attemptwarnings and precautions. ing to service your washer. Do not wash or dry items that are soied with Do not machine wash fibergass materias. vegetabe or cooking oi. These items may Sma partices can stick to fabrics washed contain some oi after aundering. Due to the in foowing oads and cause skin irritation. remaining oi, the fabric may smoke or catch fire by itsef. 3

4 Parts and Features The Parts and features Of Your washer are iustrated on this page, Become famiiar with a Parts and features before using your washer. Page references are incuded next to some features. Refer to those pages for more information about the features. Load size seector, (P. 5) Temperature Cyce contro knob Liquid chorine beach dispenser (P. 8) (under id) Tub

5 Operating Your Washer To obtain the best washing resuts, you must operate your washer propery. This section gives you this important information. Page references are incuded for more information. Starting your washer 1. Add measured detergent to the washer. Then pace a sorted oad of cothes in the washer. Sort and oad cothes as described on page 10. You may aso add coour safe beach. 2. (OPTIONAL STEP) Add measured iquid chorine beach to the iquid beach dispenser. Use ony iquid chorine beach in the beach dispenser. 3. Cose the washer id. 4. Turn the Load Size Seector to the setting that corresponds with the size of your wash oad and the type of fabric being washed. See pages 10 and 11 for oading tips. To change the oad size setting after the washer has started to fi, turn the Seector to the new setting. 5. Seect a wash-rinse temperature with the Water Temperature Seector. Match the water temperature with the type of fabric and sois being washed. The top temperature is wash water; bottom temperature is rinse water. See page 12 for water temperature tips. 6. Push in Cyce Contro Knob and turn it cockwise to the wash cyce you want. 7. Pu out Cyce Contro Knob to start the washer. 8. (OPTIONAL STEP) Add measured iquid fabric softener to the rinse water. See page 8. Liquid beach chorine dispenser Stopping/restarting your washer To stop the washer at any time, push in the Cyce Contro Knob. To restart the washer, cose the id (if necessary) and pu out the Cyce Contro Knob.

6 Seecting a cyce and time The Cyce Contro Knob shown beow iustrates the different cyces of your washer. Each cyce is designed for different types of fabrics and soi eves. Reguar Cyce The Reguar cyce features onger spins to shorten drying time. Use the 1 a-minute NORMAL cyce to cean sturdiy-constructed cotton and inen fabrics that are heaviy soied. Use the 12-minute LIGHT cyce to cean sturdiy-constructed cotton and inen fabrics that are moderatey soied. Use 6 minutes of wash time to cean sturdiy-constructed cotton and inen fabrics that are ighty soied. Permanent Press Cyce The Permanent Press cyce features a coo-down rinse and shorter spins to reduce wrinking. Use the 12-minute NORMAL cyce to cean permanent press and some synthetic fabrics that are moderatey soied. Use the 6-minute SHORT cyce to cean permanent press and some synthetic fabrics that are ighty soied. Use 4 minutes of wash time to cean deicate items and washabe knits that are ighty to moderatey soied. Extended Soak Cyce This cyce incudes brief periods of agitation and soak time to hep remove heavy sois and stains that need pretreatment. Use warm water when soaking aundry (hot water can set stains). See pages 14-6 for stain remova information. Use the amount of detergent or presoak additive recommended by the manufacturer. After the Extended Soak cyce ends, add detergent and set a new wash cyce. Pre-Wash Cyce This cyce features a brief period of agitation to hep remove heavy sois and stains that need pretreatment. Use warm water for pre-washing stained aundry (hot water can set stains). See pages 14-6 for stain remova information. After the Pre-Wash cyce ends, add detergent and set a new wash cyce. 6

7 drains, and spins. Using Drain and Spin A drain and spin may hep shorten drying times for some heavy fabrics or specia-care items by removing excess water. 1. Push in the Cyce Contro Knob and turn cockwise to SPIN, as iustrated. 2. Pu out the Cyce Contro Knob. The washer drains, then spins. What happens in each cyce When the Cyce Contro Knob is set to a number and pued out, the washer fis (to seected oad size) before agitation and timing start. The washer begins agitating immediatey after fiing (agitation occurs with the washer id up or down). After agitation starts, the Cyce Contro Knob turns cockwise unti it points to OFF and the cyce ends. NOTES: The washer pauses briefy during the Permanent Press cyce. This pause is norma for washer operation. WASH RINSE Fi Fi Wash seected time Drain+ No agitation + The Permanent Press cyce partiay drains, fis, agitates briefy, and drains. PJ LA. Spin Drain-No agitation Spin-Spray LJ 5T!dt Spin rinse 7

8 Adding iquid chorine beach Use your washer s iquid chorine beach dispenser to add beach to the wash oad. Aways measure iquid chorine beach. Do not guess. Never use more than 250 ml (1 cup) for a fu oad. Use ess with ower water eve settings. Foow manufacturer s directions for safe use. Use a cup with a pouring spout to avoid spiing. 1. Load the washer. 2. Pour measured chorine beach carefuy into the dispenser. Do not et beach spash, drip, or run down into washer basket. Undiuted beach wi damage any NOTE: Do not use this dispenser to add fabric it touches. powdered chorine or coour safe beach to 3. Start the washer. Beach wi be diuted your wash oad. The dispenser is for iquid automaticay during wash part of cyce. chorine beach use ony. Adding iquid fabric softener Aways diute fabric softeners with 125 ml (/2 cup) to 250 ml (1 cup) warm water. Undiuted fabric softener can stain fabrics. Add diuted fabric softener ony in the fina rinse. Fabric softeners shoud not be mixed with other aundry products because greasy stains may form. If stains form, remove by wetting the stain and rubbing with iquid detergent or a bar of soap. Rewash the stained item. Too much fabric softener can make some items (diapers and towes) nonabsorbent. If this happens, use ess fabric softener, or do not use it every time. MAGIC CLEAN* int fiter The int fiter at the bottom of the washer basket ceans itsef. During agitation, wash and rinse water passes over the fiter, separating the int from the water. The int is then spun away from the fiter and out of the system during the spin part of the cyce. If your washer drains into a tub, remove any int coected in the tub or strainer. MAGIC CLEAN int fiter Basket interior 8

9 Caring for Your Washer Proper care of your washer can extend its ife. This section expains how to care for your washer propery and safey. Ceaning your washer Exterior Wipe up detergent, beach, and other spis q with a soft, damp coth or sponge as they occur. Occasionay wipe the outside of the n washer to keep it ooking ike new. Do not put sharp or meta objects in your washer. They can damage the finish. Check a pockets for pins, cips, money, bots, nuts, etc. Do not ay these objects on your washer after emptying pockets. Interior Cean interior with 250 ml (1 cup) of chorine beach mixed with 500 ml (2 cups) of detergent. Run washer through a compete cyce using hot water. Repeat process if necessary. NOTE: Remove hard water deposits using ony ceaners abeed as washer safe. Winter storage or moving care Insta and store your washer where it wi not freeze. Because some water may stay in the hoses, freezing can damage your washer. If storing or moving your washer during freezing weather, winterize it. To winterize washer: 1. Shut off both water faucets. 2. Disconnect and drain water inet hoses. 3. Put 1 L (1 quart) of R.V.-type antifreeze in the basket. 4. Run washer on a drain and spin setting (see page 7) for about 30 seconds to mix the antifreeze and water. 5. Unpug the power suppy cord. Non-use or vacation care You shoud operate your washer ony when you are at home. If you wi be on vacation or not using your washer for an extended period of time, you shoud: Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off eectrica power to the washer. To use washer again: 1. Fush water pipes and hoses. 2. Reconnect water inet hoses. 3. Turn on both water faucets. 4. Reconnect power suppy cord. 5. Run the washer through a compete cyce with 250 ml (1 cup) of detergent to cean out antifreeze. Turn off the water suppy to the washer. This heps avoid accidenta fooding (due to a water pressure surge) whie you are away. 9

10 Laundry Tips This section reviews proper aundering techniques and gives you additiona washing information. Preparing cothes for washing Cose zippers, snaps, and hooks to avoid snagging other items. Remove pins, buckes, and other hard objects to avoid scratching the washer interior. Remove nonwashabe trim and ornaments. Empty pockets and turn them inside out. Turn down cuffs, brush away int and dirt. Turn synthetic knits inside out to avoid piing. Sorting Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange. Mend tears, oose hems, and seams. Treat spots and stains. (See Removing Stains on pages 14-6.) Stained or wet garments shoud be washed prompty for best resuts. Separate heaviy soied items from ighty Separate dark coours from ight coours, soied ones, even if they woud coourfast items from noncoourfast items. normay be washed together. Sort by fabric and construction (sturdy Separate int givers (towes, cottons, knits, deicate items). chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, permanent press). When possibe, turn int givers inside out. Loading Drop items into washer oosey. Fi to the q top of the basket, (top row of hoes). Do not wrap items around the agitator. Items shoud move easiy through wash water for best ceaning and wrinke-free resuts. Items shoud sink and reappear ater. Load washer propery and seect correct oad size setting. Overoading or packing the machine, and seecting a setting too sma for the wash oad can: - cause poor ceaning. - increase wrinking. - create excessive int. - wear out items faster (because of piing). Load by the amount of space items take up, not by their weight. Mix arge and sma items in each oad. Load eveny to maintain washer baance. An off- / baance oad can make the \ washer vibrate during spin. i!e3 Use a arge oad size setting to reduce wrinking with permanent press cothes and some synthetic knits. These items shoud have more room to move in the water than heavy items (towes, jeans). Reduce wash time when using a sma oad size setting. Loads with ony a few sma items need ess wash time. 10

11 Loading suggestions For these suggested fu-sized oads, set the Load Size Seector to the highest water eve setting. LARGE CAPACITY WASHERS Heavy Work Permanent Cothes Press 2 pair pants 1 doube sheet 3 shirts 1 tabecoth 3 pair jeans 1 dress 1 covera 1 bouse Knits 2 sacks 3 shirts 2 sacks 2 2 bouses piowcases 4 shirts 4 tops 2 dresses Mixed Load 2 doube or 1 king size sheet(s) 4 piowcases 6 T-shirts 6 pair shorts 2 shirts 2 bouses 6 handkerchiefs Towes 8 bath towes 8 hand towes 10 wash coths 1 bath mat Deicates 2 camisoes 4 sips 4 panties 2 bras 2 nighties Saving energy Use warm or cod wash water for most oads. Use hot water ony when washing heavy, greasy sois or whites. Use cod rinses. Wash fu oads. Use ower water eves when washing sma oads. Avoid rewashing. Use enough detergent and pretreat stains or heavy sois. Use the cyces and wash times recommended for the fabric and soi. Use your washer during off-peak hours - usuay eary morning and ate evening. (Ask your power company.) 11

12 Water guideines Seecting water temperatures WASH WATER TEMPERATUREt SUGGESTED FABRICS COMMENTS HOT Work cothes Best ceaning for heaviy soied items 54 C (130 F) Sturdy whites/coourfast Removes ois, perspiration, greasy or above pastes sois and stains Diapers Prevents graying or yeowing WARM Dark/noncoourfast coours Best for moderatey soied to ighty C Permanent press items soied items (90-10 F) Nyon, poyester, acryics, Safe for most fabric finishes siks, wooens Less fading and dye beeding Knits/deicate fabrics Reduces wrinking COLD Extra-sensitive coours Best for very ighty soied items C Noncoourfast items Saves hot water (70-90 F) Hand washabes Best rinse water temperature t The washer features cod rinses for a wash temperatures. Checking hot water temperature Your hot water shoud be 54 C (130 F) or above. If you do not know your hot water temperature, you can check it easiy. You may need to raise the temperature of your water heater. To check your hot water: 1. Fi a pan with the hottest water avaiabe from the faucet that fis your washer. NOTE: If you do not have a faucet at your washer site, coect the water from the faucet cosest to your washer. 2. Pace a candy thermometer or cooking thermometer in the water to check the Water hardness Many poor washing resuts can be traced to the hardness of the wash water. To check your water hardness: City water - ask the city water company. We water - ask the oca water authority. Ask for the minera content in grains/gaon or parts/miion. If your water is more than 8 grains/gaon or more than 137 parts/ miion, you shoud consider: Instaing a water softener. Using more detergent. Using a packaged water conditioner. temperature. Not using soap. NOTE: In wash-water temperatures coder than 21 C (7O F), detergents do not dissove we. Aso, sois may be difficut to remove, and some fabrics may retain wear wrinkes and may have increased piing. 12

13 Washing specia-care items Most garments and househod texties have care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. Beow are genera washing instructions for some specia washabes. ITEM CARE INSTRUCTIONS Bankets Pretreat spots and stains. Seect water temperature, cyce, and (eectric or wooen) time according to the type of banket being washed. Two rinses may be necessary. Check care abe to see if manufacturer recommends machine washing. Curtains, sipcovers Diapers Eastic, drapes, spandex Fame-retardant cothing Knits Wash sma oads. Crowding may cause wrinking. Repace sipcovers whie sti sighty damp. They wi dry to fit tighty. NOTE: Sun-damaged curtains and draperies wi tear whether hand or machine washed. When using chorine beach for soaking, add extra detergent to the oad. Avoid overuse of fabric softeners - absorbency wi be reduced. Eastic picks up oi from the body. Oi can damage eastic. Wash often to reduce the damage. Use warm water and sufficient detergent to remove ois. Do not use chorine beach. Items wi be ceary abeed as fame-retardant. Foow manufacturer s instructions to retain fame-retardant quaities. Knits are comfortabe to wear because they stretch. However, this means that knits are more ikey to be stretched and damaged when washed (especiay buky knits). Knits made of synthetic fabrics such as poyester, nyon, and acryic tend to keep their origina shape more than a knit made of cotton or ramie. Piows, stuffed Washing feather piows is not recommended uness they wi be toys dried in a dryer. Pastic, rubber Treat as deicate items. Wash in warm water. Wash sma items items in a mesh bag. Quits, bedspreads Do not wash cotton-fied comforters uness they are quited or stitched. Tucked cotton batting tends to sip and become umpy. An extra rinse may be necessary. Scatter rugs Shake or vacuum rugs to remove oose dirt. Wash more than one rug at a time. If washing ony one rug, add bath towes to baance the oad. Snowsuits, jackets Wash ony one or two items at a time. You may need to stop the washer occasionay to press air from the items being washed. An extra rinse may be necessary. 13

14 Removing Stains Stained, heaviy soied, or greasy items may need to be prewashed or soaked for best resuts. Soaking heps remove protein-type stains ike bood, mik, or grass. Prewashing heps oosen soi before washing. Stain remova rues Use warm water for soaking or prewashing stained aundry. Hot water can set stains. Most stains are easier to remove when they are fresh. Od or set stains may not come out. Foow package directions for pretreatment products. Before treating any stain, find out what kind of stain it is, how od the stain is, what kind of fabric it is, and if the fabric is coout-fast. (Check the care abe.) Washing and drying can set some stains. Start with cod or warm water. Hot water can set some stains. When beach is recommended, use a beach that is safe for the fabric. Test stain removers on an inside seam or hidden corner of the item to see if the coour is removed. Put the stained area face down on a paper towe or white coth. Appy the stain remover to the back of the stain. This forces the stain off the fabric instead of through it. Meat tenderizer or enzyme presoaks hep break down some protein stains so they are easier to remove. Stain remova guide STAIN Acohoic beverage 1 TO REMOVE These stains turn brown with age, so treat immediatey. Sponge or soak fresh stains with cod water. Wash. If stain remains, soak 15 minutes in a soution of ukewarm water, iquid detergent, and a few drops of white vinegar. Rinse. Wash. Bood Rinse immediatey or soak in cod water with enzyme presoak for 30 minutes or onger. Rinse. Rub detergent into any remaining stains. Rinse. If stain remains, put a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide on stain for 3-5 minutes. Rinse thoroughy. Wash. Chewing gum Chocoate or coffee Use ice to make gum hard. Scrape off what you can. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Let dry. Wash. Sponge immediatey with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or appy a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appy a iquid detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Crayon cande and wax Scrape off excess with a du knife. Pace fabric between two botters or facia tissue. Press with warm iron. Remove coour stain with nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Hand wash unti stain is gone. If fu oad is crayon stained, take to ceaners or coin-operated dry ceaning machine. Cream, mik, or ice cream Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner, or a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. Repeat if necessary. If stain remains, appy a few drops of iquid detergent and a few drops of ammonia. Bot dry and rinse. If stain remains, soak in an enzyme presoak. Wash. 14

15 STAIN TO REMOVE Deodorants Light stain: Treat with iquid detergent or your reguar aundry detergent. and anti- Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. perspirants Heavy stain: Pace face down on towe and treat with a paste of ammonia and coour safe beach. Let stand for 30 minutes. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Fat, grease, Items soied with vegetabe or cooking oi shoud not be washed or dried. or oi See vegetabe/cooking oi Warning on page 3. For other types of greasy stains, use one of the methods beow: Use pretreatment stain remover. Foow abe directions. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Use tacum powder to absorb as much grease as possibe. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Rinse. Wash. Treat with iquid detergent or rub a detergent paste on the stain. Wash using hottest water safe for fabric. Fruit stains Fresh stains: Soak immediatey in coo water. Wash. If stain remains, cover area with a paste made of coour safe beach, a few drops of hot water and a few drops of ammonia. Wait 15 to 30 minutes. Wash. Od stains: Sponge with white vinegar. Rinse. Repeat procedure for fresh stains. Grass or Soak in warm or cod water with an enzyme presoak for at east 30 mingreen utes, or sponge with denatured acoho. Wash in water temperature and vegetabes beach safe for the fabric. For cooured fabrics, check coourfastness before appying acoho. For acetate, sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. If stain remains, beach with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse. Rewash. Ink or bapoint pen ink Spray stain with an aeroso hair spray or rubbing acoho. Sponge stain continuousy unti a beeding stops. Let dry. Repeat if necessary. Wash. If stain remains, beach if safe for fabric. (India and other indeibe inks are amost impossibe to remove competey.) Iron or rust Cooured or noncoourfast items: Appy emon juice and sat. Pace in the sun to dry. Rinse thoroughy. Repeat if necessary. White or coourtast items: Try a rust remover. Test first on inside seam or hem. Some rust removers are not washer safe. Foow package directions. Ketchup or Sponge immediatey with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or appy a tomato prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appy a products iquid detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Lipstick Appy nonfammabe fabric ceaner or prewash soi and stain remover. Bot with absorbent materia. Repeat if necessary. Rinse. If stain sti remains, rub with iquid detergent. Wash. continued on next page 15

16 TO REMOVE Scrape off excess with a du knife. Soak in cod or warm water with enzyme presoak at east 30 minutes, or treat stains with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Wash. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. If stain remains, soak in warm water and a coour safe beach for 15 to 30 minutes. Rewash. (Od midew stains are amost impossibe to remove. Midew fungus destroys or weakens fabrics.) An aternative to beach is to treat with sat and emon juice and dry in direct sunight. Rinse and rewash. Midew may form if wet or damp aundry remains in your washer for extended periods of time. To prevent midew, prompty dry aundry after washing. Treat immediatey. Scrape off excess mustard. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Work iquid detergent and a few drops of vinegar into stain. Rinse. If stain remains, appy 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse and wash. Hand wash paint-stained items. Water base: Treat stains whie sti wet. (These paints cannot be removed after they have dried.) Rinse in warm water to fush out paint. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner. Rinse. Wash. Oi base: Scrape off fresh paint. Sponge with a nonfammabe fabric ceaner or treat stain with recommended thinner. Whie stain is sti wet with sovent, rub iquid detergent into it. Wash with hottest water safe for fabric. Remove stains before ironing. Perspiration stains may weaken fabric. Wash or sponge stain thoroughy with detergent and warm water. If perspiration has changed the coour of the fabric, use one of the foowing treatments: Fresh stains: Appy ammonia to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove ammonia odour. Od stains: Appy white vinegar to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove vinegar odour. Severe scorch cannot be removed. Wet stain with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Cover with a dry coth and press with an iron as hot as is safe for fabric. Rinse we. Wash. OR Wet with emon juice and spread in the sun to dry. Wash. Sponge immediatey with cod water and acoho. Heat and detergent may set stain. 16

17 Troubeshooting Most aundering probems are easiy soved if you understand the cause. Check the foowing ist for common aundry probems and the next page for common washer probems. If you need further assistance, see page 19. Common probems PROBLEM Brown, stains yeow Dye transfer Gray whites, dingy coours CAUSE Chorine staining Iron in water heater or pipes; iron and manganese in water Improper sorting Load not immediatey removed from washer after end of cyce Improper sorting Water temperature too ow Not enough detergent Using soap in very hard water (use detergent in hard water) Greasy spots ooking Fabric softener poured directy on cothes Not enough detergent, or dispenser not used Lint Improper sorting Paper or tissue in pockets Piing being mistaken for int Not enough detergent Load too wet after spin Shrinking Snags, rips, and hoes Stiff, rough fabrics Cod rinses Cyce stopped before spinning is compete Fabric type (some knits stretch during manufacturing - aundering returns fabric to origina size) Care abe directions not foowed Items damaged before washing Misuse of chorine beach (do not pour directy on cothes); dispenser not used Sharp items not removed from pockets; fasteners not fastened Using soap in very hard water (use detergent in hard water) Not enough detergent Line drying Twisting/ Tanging Overoading Cothes wrapped around agitator Wrinking Yeow areas (from body ois) Overoading (eave more room for permanent press and knits) Load not immediatey removed from washer after cyce Warm rinse water Cyce seection incorrect Water temperature too ow Not enough detergent continued on next page 17

18 Common washer probems Before caing for service, check these: Is the power cord firmy pugged into a ive outet with proper votage? Have you bown a househod fuse been used? fuse or tripped a circuit breaker? Has a time-deay Are both the hot and cod water faucets turned on? Are the water hoses kinked or cogged? Is the drain hose ower than the water eve in the washer? It must be higher. Is the id cosed? Is the Cyce Contro Knob set and pued out? Is the washer making noises or vibrating? Is the wash oad propery distributed around the agitator? NOTE: Washer stops briefy during a wash cyce. These pauses are norma. If none of these items was causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page

19 Reauestina Se&ice u Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. Assistance Gearcase assemby covered by your warranty or 1. If your probem is not due to any of the items isted in the Troubeshooting section... Contact the deaer from whom you purchased the washer, or an authorized Whirpoo* service company. 2. If you need FSP* repacement parts... FSP is a protected trademark of Whirpoo Corporation* for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your WHIRLPOOL appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new WHIRLPOOL appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, contact the deaer from whom you purchased the washer, or an authorized Whirpoo service company. NOTE: If the power suppy cord of this washer is damaged, it must be repaced by a specia cord (Part Number ) avaiabe from the deaer from whom you purchased the washer or an authorized Whirpoo service company. Shoud you require any assistance or service, phone the Whirpoo Service Company on: Sydney (02) Canberra (065) Hobart (002) Mebourne (03) Centra Coast (008) God Coast (075) Brisbane (07) Townsvie (077) Woongong (042) Adeaide (08) New Caste (049) Perth (09)

20 WHIRLPOOL* Automatic Washer Warranty Outside the United States a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo distributor or miitary exchange. LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-Y EAR FSP repacement parts and repair abour to correct defects in WARRANTY materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an From Date of Purchase authorized Whirpoo service company. LIMITED FIVE-YEAR FSP repacement parts for any part of gearcase assemby if WARRANTY defective in materias or workmanship. The gearcase assemby From Date of Purchase is shown in the Requesting Assistance or Service section of this book. FSP repacement parts for any top and id rust. LIMITED TEN-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase FSP repacement of outer tub shoud it crack, or fai to contain water, due to defective materias or workmanship. WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your washer. 2. Instruct you how to use your washer. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. B. Repairs when your washer is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your washer is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your washer caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Any abour costs during the imited warranties. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. 6-9 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSE- QUENTIAL DAMAGES. Specific warranty detais are outined above. However, the benefits conferred by this express warranty are additiona to a other conditions, warranties, guarantees, rights and remedies expressed or impied by the Trade Practices Act and simiar State or Territory aws and a other obigations and iabiities on the part of the manufacturer or suppier and nothing contained herein sha restrict or modify such rights, remedies, obigations or iabiities. PART NO Whirpoo Corporation RegIstered Trademark of Whirpoo. U.S A