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... 6 Seecting a cyce and time...7 Using Rinse and Spin... 8 Using Drain and Spin... 8 What happens in each cyce... 9 MAGIC CLEAN@ int fiter....9 Using the iquid chorine beach dispenser..... 10 Using the fabric softener dispenser... 10 Caring for Your Washer... 11 Laundry Tips..... 12-16 Removing Stains... 17-9 Troubeshooting....20-21 Requesting Assistance or Service... 22 Warranty... 24 1-800-253-I 301 Ca uo with questions or comments. TWO SPEED AUTOMATIC WASHER WITH HAND WASHABLES CYCLE PART NO. 3363548 0/94
A Note to You Thank you for buying a Whirpoo@ appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, Whirpoo washers are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you enjoy years of troubefree 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. Aso, pease compete and mai in the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. The card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. 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 page 4 for ocation of pate). Deaer Name Pease aso record the purchase date of Deaer Address your appiance and your deaer s name, address, and teephone number. Deaer Phone Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. Our Consumer Assistance Center number is to-free 24 hours a day. 1-800-253-1301 1 2
Washer Safety warning symbos. Pease-pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the symbo. 1 This symbo aerts you to such dangers ~r+r.zn~~~;.ry. burns, fire, and IMPORTANT SAFEY INSTRUCTIONS B Read a instructions before using your washer. D 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 &vents, 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 vapors 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 fii 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. -SAVE ff your hot water has not been used recentfy (usuafy 2 weeks or onger), hydrogen gases may buid up in your water heater and your hot water pipes. HYDRO- GEN 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..nsta 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.* Ground washer propery.* *See the Instaation Instructions. THESE INSTRUCTIONS- Understanding your responsibiities. Store aundry aids and other materias in a Do not wash or dry items that are soied coo, dry pace where chidren cannot reach with vegetabe or cooking oi. These items them (in a ocked cabinet if possibe). may contain some oi after aundering. Due Read and foow instructions on packages to the remaining oi, the fabric may smoke of detergent and aundry aids, especiay or catch fire by itsef. warnings and precautions. Unpug power suppy cord before attempt Do not use chorine beach and ammonia or ing to service your washer. acids (such as vinegar or rust remover) in Do not machine wash fibergass materias. the same wash. Hazardous fumes can form. Sma partices can stick to fabrics washed in foowing oads and cause skin irritation. 3
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 Temperature seector Extra rinse / seector In c=i\ Cyce contro knob (PP. 6-8) Fabric softener Liquid chorine beach dispenser (P. 10) (P.iO) \]I Mode and seria MAGIC CLEAN@ int fiter (bottom of washer basket) (P. gi Contro pane
Operating Your Washer To obtain the best washing resuts, you must operate your washer propery. This section gives you this information. NOTE: Before using your washer, remove the consumer Features Guide from your washer and pace it with your Use and Care Guide. Starting 3. 4. 5. Your Washer 1. Add measured detergent to the washer. Then pace a sorted oad of cothes in the washer (see page 12). Sort and oad cothes as described on page 12. If desired, you may aso add coor-safe a-fabric beach or extra detergent for the Super Wash cyce. 2. (OPTIONAL STEP) If desired, add measured iquid chorine beach to the iquid beach dispenser (see page 10). Use ony iquid chorine beach in the beach dispenser. For optima brightening and beaching, iquid chorine beach is automaticay diuted and dispensed in the ast few minutes of the wash cyce. (OPTIONAL STEP) If desired, add measured fabric softener to the fabrk softener dispenser (see page 10). The fabric softener dispenser automaticay diutes and reeases the fabric softener at the proper time in the rinse cyce.. Water rinses the dispenser so cogging does not occur. Cose the washer id. Turn the Load Size Seector to the setting that corresponds to the size of the wash oad and the type of fabrk being washed.. Seect any one of five oad sizes: Extra Sma, Sma, Medium, Large, or Extra Large. To change the oad size setting after the washer has started to fi, turn the Seector to the desired new setting. See pages 12-3 for oading tips. 5
6. Turn the Water Temperature Seector to the desired Wash Rinse temperature. Match the water temperature with the type of fabric and sois being washed. The top temperature on the Seector is the wash water and the bottom temperature is the rinse water. See page 14 for water temperature guideines. 7. (OPTIONAL STEP) If desired, turn the Extra Rinse Seector to On to add an additiona rinse to the end of the wash cyce. Use the extra rinse option when using extra detergent for the Super Wash cyce or any of the foowing cyces: Norma, Permanent Press, or Deicate. The extra rinse option is not offered in the Hand Washabes cyce. If you do not desire an extra rinse, or if you are using the Hand Washabes cyce, turn the Extra Rinse Seector to off. 8. Push in and turn the Cyce Contro Knob cockwise. Stop when the indicator on the outer ring points to the number in the wash cyce you want. The numbers are minutes of wash time. The cyces are described on pages 7-8. Stopping/restarting your washer If necessary, you can stop your washer during a cyce to add more cothes. 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 Use the information in this section to hep you make the best cyce seections for your wash oads. Each cyce is designed for different types of fabrics and soi eves. The washer pauses briefy throughout each cyce. These pauses are norma for washer operation. Refer to page 9 to hep you understand what happens during a wash cyce. Super Wash cyce The Super Wash cyce automaticay prewashes the oad and advances into the Norma cyce. (The washer does not have to be reset after the Super Wash cyce.) Use this 18-minute cyce when washing heaviy soied oads that need maximum soi remova. NOTE: For proper ceaning, use doube the amount of detergent recommended for the oad size. Norma cyce The Norma cyce features the Gente Wash System and high agitation and spin speeds to shorten drying time. Use HEAVY, 15 minutes of wash time, to cean arge oads of sturdiy constructed fabrics that are heaviy soied.. Use REGULAR, 9-12 minutes of wash time, to cean cotton and inen fabrics that are moderatey soied. Use SOFT WASH, 6 minutes of wash time, to cean cotton and inen fabrics that are ighty soied. Permanent Press cyce The Permanent Press cyce features the Gente Wash system, a coo-down rinse, and ow spin speeds to reduce wrinking. Use NORMAL, 9 minutes of wash time, to cean permanent press and some synthetic fabrics that are moderatey soied. Use LIGHT, 3 to 6 minutes of wash time, to cean permanent press and some synthetic fabrics that are ighty soied. Deicate cyce The Deicate cyce features a reduced agitation speed for gente soi remova. Low spin speeds reduce wrinking. Use NORMAL, 6 minutes of wash time, to cean deicate items and washabe knits that are moderatey soied. Use LIGHT, 3 minutes of wash time, to cean deicate items and washabe knits that are ighty soied.
Hand Washabes cyce The Hand Washabes cyce features brief ow speed agitation and short soaks (2 seconds On, 28 seconds Off) to gentfy cean specia-care items. Low spin speeds reduce wrinking. Use 6 minutes of wash time to cean ighty soied hand washabes. Wash sma oads. If items appear to be foating due to trapped air, stop the washer by pushing in the Cyce Contro Knob. Push items down into the water. Restart the washer. See Hand Washabes on page 15 for more information. Using Rinse and Spin NOTE: An Extra Rinse option is avaiabe in a cyces except Hand Washabes (see paw 6). When using extra detergent for heaviy soied cothes, or washing specia-care items, you may want an extra rinse and spin. 1. Push in the Cyce Contro Knob and turn cockwise to RINSE, as iustrated. 2. Pu out the Cyce Contro Knob. The washer fis to seected oad size, agitates, 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. 8
What happens in each cyce When the Cyce Contro Knob is set to a number and pued out, the washer fis (to the seected oad size) before agitation and timing start. The washer wi begin agitating immediatey after fiing; agitation can occur with the washer id up or down. After agitation starts, the Cyce Contro Knob turns cockwise unti it points to an OFF area and the cyce ends. The washer pauses briefy throughout each cyce. These pauses are norma for washer operation. NOTE: A Gente Wash system heps protect your fabrics by reducing wash agitation speed during the ast few minutes of wash agitation in the Norma and Permanent Press cyces. WASH Fi RINSE Fi Wash seected time Rinse Drain (or partia drain*) No agitation *The Permanent Press cyce partiay drains, fis, agitates briefy, and drains. &J Spin Drain-No agitation k&j Spin-Spray w Spin rinse 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
Using iquid chorine beach dispenser Aways measure iquid chorine beach. Do not guess. Never use more than 1 cup (250 ml) 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 fabric it touches. 3. Start the washer. Beach wi be diuted automaticay during wash part of cyce. NOTE: Do not use this dispenser to add powdered chorine or a-fabric beach to your wash oad. The dispenser is for iquid chorine beach use ony. Using the fabric softener dispenser 1. Add detergent and oad cothes in the basket. 2. Pour iquid fabric softener into the dispenser using the amount recommended on the package. Avoid dripping or spiing any fabric softener on the oad. 3. Diute fabric softener with warm water. Fi dispenser with warm water unti iquid reaches the opening. 4. Start the washer. Diuted fabric softener wi be added to the oad during the fina rinse. NOTE: Do not stop the washer before the rinse part of the cyce begins. Staining can occur. 5. Fush dispenser periodicay with warm water. NOTE: Do not wash cothes with this dispenser removed. Do not add detergent or beach to dispenser. The dispenser is for iquid fabric softener use ony. 10
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 with a soft, damp coth or sponge as they occur. Occasionay wipe the outside of the 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 1 cup (250 ml) of chorine beach mixed with 2 cups (500 ml) of detergent. Run washer through a compete cyce using hot water. Repeat process if necessary. NOTE: Remove hard water deposits using ceaners abeed as washer safe ony. 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: To use washer again: 1. Shut off both water faucets. 1. Fush water pipes and hoses. 2. Disconnect and drain water inet hoses. 2. Reconnect water inet hoses. 3. Put 1 quart (1L) of R.V.-type antifreeze in 3. Turn on both water faucets. the basket. 4. Reconnect power suppy cord. 4. Run washer on a drain and spin setting (see page 8) for about 30 seconds to mix 5. Run the washer through a compete cyce with 1 cup (250 ml) of detergent to cean the antifreeze and water. out antifreeze. 5. Unpug the power suppy cord. Non-use or vacat.ion 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. Turn off the water suppy to the washer. This heps avoid accidenta fooding (due to a water pressure surge) whie you are away. 11
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 q snagging other items. Remove pins, buckes, and other hard objects to avoid 0 scratching the washer interior. Remove nonwashabe trim and ornaments. Empty pockets and turn them inside out. Turn down cuffs, brush away int and dirt. Sorting Separate heaviy-soied items from ightysoied ones, even if they woud normay be washed together. Separate int givers (towes, chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, permanent Loading Drop items into washer oosey. Fi to the top of the basket, but do not wrap items around the agitator. Items shoud move easiy through wash water for best Ia 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). Turn synthetic knits inside out to avoid piing. Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange. Mend tears, oose hems, and seams. Treat spots and stains. (See Removing Stains on pages 17-9.) Stained or wet garments shoud be washed prompty for best resuts. press). When possibe, turn int givers inside out. Separate dark coors from ight coors, coorfast items from noncoorfast items. Sort by fabric and construction (sturdy cottons, knits, deicate items). 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. -- H 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. 12
Loading suggestions For these suggested fu-sized oads, set the Load Size Seector to the Extra Large 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 bathmat Deicates 2 camisoes 4 sips 4 panties 2 bras 2 nighties Water Guideines Seecting water temperatures WASH WATER TEMPERATURE* SUGGESTED FABRICS COMMENTS HOT 130 F (54 C) or above WARM go -1 10 F (32=44 C) Work cothes Sturdy whites/coorfast pastes Diapers Darknoncoorfast coors Permanent press items Nyon, poyester, acryics, siks, wooens Knits/deicate fabrics COLD Extra-sensitive coors 70-90 F Noncoorfast items (21=32 C) Hand washabes Best ceaning for heaviy soied items Removes ois, perspiration, greasy sois, and stains Prevents graying or yeowing Best for ighty soied to moderatey soied items Safe for most fabric finishes Less fading and dye beeding Reduces wrinking Best for very ighty soied items Saves hot water Best rinse water temperature * The washer features cod rinses for a wash temperatures. In addition, warm rinses are avaiabe with warm washes. Warm rinse water provides better water extraction than cod rinse water, but may increase wrinking when ine drying. In cod cimates, warm rinse water aso provides a more comfortabe temperature for handing the wash oad. 13
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 temperature. NOTE: In wash water temperatures coder than 21 C (70 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. 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. 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 153 parts/ miion, you shoud consider: Instaing a water softener. Using more detergent. Using a packaged water conditioner. Not using soap.. Avoid rewashing. Use enough detergent. Pretreat stains or heavy sois. Use the cyces and wash times recommended for the fabric and soi. Use your washer during off-peak hoursusuay eary morning and ate evening. (Ask your power company.) 14
Washing specia care items Most garments and househod texties have care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaabe. Beow are genera washing instructions for some specia washabes. ITEM Bankets (eectric or wooen) Curtains, drapes, sipcovers CARE INSTRUCTIONS Pretreat spots and stains. Seect water temperature, cyce, and time according to the type of banket being washed. Use of the Extra Rinse feature may be necessary. Check care abe to see if manufacturer recommends machine washing. 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. Diapers When using chorine beach for soaking, add extra detergent to the oad. Avoid overuse of fabric softeners - absorbency wi be reduced. Eastic, spandex Fame-retardant cothing Hand Washabes 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. Garments are abeed Hand Wash because: The fiber or construction may be sensitive to agitation. The fabric contains sensitive dyes that may beed. Propery sort and then use your Hand Washabes cyce for gente washing. Foow care abe directions for drying. Items that may shrink shoukf be dried fat. Bock these items by genty stretching to origina measurements. Wooens tend to shrink more the first time they are washed. continued on next page 15
1 ITEM CARE INSTRUCTIONS I Knits 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 items Treat as deicate items. Wash in warm water. Wash sma 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. Use of the Extra Rinse feature mav be necessarv. 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. Use of the Extra Rinse feature may be necessary. 16
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 coorfast. (Check the care abe.) Washing and drying can set some stains. Start with cod or warm water. Hot water can set some stains. Stain remova guide STAIN Acohoic beverage TO REMOVE 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 coor 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. 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 Crayon and cande wax Cream, mik, or ice cream 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. Scrape off excess with a du knife. Pace fabric between two botters or facia tissue. Press with warm iron. Remove coor 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. 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. continued on next page 17
STAIN Deodorants and anti- PersPirants TO REMOVE Light stain: Treat with iquid detergent or your reguar aundry detergent. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Heavy stain: Pace face down on towe and treat with a paste of ammonia and a-fabric beach. Let stand for 30 minutes. Wash in hot-est 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 a-fabric 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 green 30 minutes, or sponge with denatured acoho. Wash in water temperavegetabes ture and beach safe for the fabric. For coored fabrics, check coorfastness 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 Coored or noncoorfast items: Appy emon juice and sat. Pace in the sun to dry. Rinse thoroughy. Repeat if necessary. White or coorfast 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 fabrii ceaner or prewash soi and stain remover. Bot with absorbent materia. Repeat if necessary. Rinse. If stain sti remains, rub with iquid detergent. Wash. 18
STAIN Meat juice, egg Midew 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 fabrii ceaner. Wash. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. If stain remains, soak in warm water and an a-fabric 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. Mustard 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. Paint 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. Perspiration Remove stains before ironing. Perspiration stains may weaken fabrii. Wash or sponge stain thoroughy with detergent and warm water. If perspiration has changed the coor of the fabric, use one of the foowing treatments: Fresh stains: Appy ammonia to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove ammonia odor. Od stains: Appy white vinegar to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove vinegar odor. Scorch 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. Soft drinks Sponge immediatey with cod water and acoho. Heat and detergent may set stain. 19
Troubeshooting Most aundering probems are easiy soved if you understand the cause. Check the foowing ist for common aundry probems. Aso refer to page 21 for common washer probems. If you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 22. Common aundry probems PROBLEM Brown, yeow stains Dye transfer Gray whites, dingy coors Greasy ooking spots Lint Load too wet after spin Shrinking Snags, rips and hoes Stiff, rough fabrics Twisting, tanging Wrinking 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) Fabric softener poured directy on cothes Not enough detergent Improper sorting Paper or tissue in pockets Piing being mistaken for int Overoading Not enough detergent Cod rinses Cyce stopped before spinning is compete Fabric type (some knits stretch during manufacturingaundering returns fabric to origina size) Care abe directions not foowed Items damaged before washing Misuse of chorine beach (do not pour directy on cothes) Sharp items not removed from pockets; fasteners not fastened 9 Overoading Using soap in very hard water (use detergent in hard water) Not enough detergent Line drying Overoading Improper oading (do not wrap items around agitator) Overoading (eave more room for permanent press and knits) Load not immediatey removed from washer after cyce Warm rinse water Cyce seection incorrect Yeow areas Water temperature too ow (from body ois) Not enough detergent 20
Common washer probems Before caing for service, check these: q 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 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 22. 21
Requesting Assistance or Service Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages 20-21. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. If you need assistance*... Ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia to-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: w 1-800-253-301 E and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Whirooo has a nationwide net- I work of authorized Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty u and provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 1) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: APPLANCE-HOUSEHOLD- MAJOR, SERVICE 6 REPAJR -Sea Whirpoo Appiances or Authorized WhIrpoo Service (.Exampk xv2 service Co.) WASHING MACHINES & DRYERS, SERVICE 6 REPAR -See: Whirpoo Appiances or Auiharized Whirpoo Service (Exampkr xw!.%rvicc Co.) 3. If you need FSP repace ment parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your Whirpoog appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Whirpoo appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 2 or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step 1. 4. If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. Gearcase assemby covered by w your warran When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 22
WHIRLPOOL@ Automatic Washer Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor 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 WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR FSP repacement of outer tub shoud it crack, or fai to contain water, due to defective materias or workmanship. 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 abor costs during the imited warranties. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. 6-94 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSE- QU ENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this imitation or excusion may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the Requesting Assistance or Service section of this book. After checking Requesting Assistance or Service, additiona hep can be found by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, 1-800-253-301, from anywhere in the U.S.A. Prinied on recyced paper- 10% pod-mnwmer waste 50% recovered materias PART NO. 3363548 0 ew Whripa CorporaIon * R~iSeted Trademark 01 Whirpoo, U.SA Prned In U.S.A.