Most of you have probably read my post about my Bosch Nexxt Washer with bearings that were starting to get noisy. If not, you can read about it here-

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5164602/that-dreaded-day-has-finally-come?n=20

Everything turned out just fine but, going into the repair, I was not sure what I would find until I opened it up and even then if it was fixable or not. I also had to order parts so it would be a couple weeks without a Washer either way and with the volume of Laundry we do in my household I needed something now.

I had a short list of machine that I had been considering for when this day came. I knew I wanted another Front Loader. The list included...

LG WM3770 HWA

Sears Kenmore Elite 41682

I even considered waiting on the Miele W1. They each had their good and bad points.

But I kept going back to another washer, the FL Speed Queen I knew it was soon to be discontinued, I knew it didn't have a water heater, I knew some people absolutely loved their's, others, not so much.

I had looked at it in the showroom back in the late Fall '17 and liked what I saw but there was no way I was willing to pay the asking price.

I did manage to locate a brand new in the box Speed Queen AFNE9BSP113TW01 for well under the $1400 asking price so I made the hour and a half journey to pick it up.

Here it is being unloaded out of my SUV-