re: Any kitchen appliance brands to avoid?

MAYTAG washers from lowes with the Lowes warranty sucks. Its like the repair guy who is the old Sears repair guy is now an attorney. We need to video failures of the washing machine and then they send someone out and announce its fixed and the cycle starts over. In visits and a new motherboard I know they are upside down in the warranty cost. Its frustrating because we replaced very good Fisher Paykill unit that we could not get a service man at all to come out. Seems like living out of Hammond is like being in Iraq for service people.