The first time you wash drying strong odor. But something has to be at the factory, was to feel the second time barely and is now completely gone. Washing performance is great, you can even adjust many options. Upon drying had at the beginning problems with crinkled linen, then played around a bit and found that he really hot dry, so the dry season gradually shortened to 1.20 h and works beautifully! With the operation I have no problems, do not know what is supposed to be difficult to the few buttons and a rotary switch. Nevertheless, I would have found a label better than this cryptic characters. At the unit as such but there is nothing at all to complain and I can highly recommend it for this price! Update after 10 months: I am sorry to my 5 star revise. Already after 6 weeks of the first water outlet - it turned out that the hose connection was broken. Amazon reacted quickly and easily and paid without objection a new tube. Over time, ever higher noise levels, even the really missing plastic odor reappeared on massively. Three weeks ago, no loud noises in the middle during the washing process, failure of the electronics and massive water outlet (thankfully I was at home) out of the machine. Collection by Amazon within two days, no repairs, no exchange, but immediate referral of the total price. There are two of the machine and was used about every 10 days, have not located dryer maybe once a month, so it kanns, perhaps a Monday device, I do not know, but now I'm suspicious and buy another device, too bad.