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Anonymous Posted on Feb 15, 2009

Out of balance

I have a maytag top loading washer model sav405deww. With any load or just with only water the machine vibrates accros the floor on spin cycle. I checked for out of level and the level is fine. Any thoughts?
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Installed no slip carpeting underneath machine, worked fine.

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