Please keep us informed when you start using/testing out the new WaveTouch's.

Pros:

* short cycles which can easily be made longer if desired by adding steam, pre-wash, stain pre-treat and/or increasing soil level
* very quiet and very stable
* LED light inside drum is very nice
* shrink guard option is da bomb!! Best feature since sliced bread. After spinning it tumbles the clothing and takes all the wrinkles out. Super awesome for when you're doing a load of dress shirts that you hang to dry, or any other hang to dry clothing. Especially great when you're dryer hasn't arrived yet and you have to hang EVERYTHING. ;)
* ability to add extra water to a load. Great for bulky items like sleeping bags and comforters or modern cloth diapers
* lots of spin speeds
* lots of soil level choices
* several "favourite" cycles, so you can create your own
* cleans very well and seems to get stains out better than my previous front loader. I've been using the pre-wash/stain pre-treat option for every load that contains kids clothing and I'm wondering if I could just cut that down to the stain pre-treat option. I'm just used to using pre-wash on kids' clothing from my previous front loader that had only the pre-wash option and no stain pre-treat option.
* if you've forgotten to add an option or want to remove one, pausing the cycle allows you to do this. My prior machine allowed me to pause a cycle but wouldn't let me change the spin speed or change other options once the cycle was started.

Cons:

* darn LED light doesn't stay on long enough if you're having to pull items out one by one to hang. You can hit a button to turn it back on, but if the display happens to go out entirely, you're SOL for turning the light back on
* you can't use pre-wash or stain pre-treat on the sanitary cycle, gentle cycle or handwash cycle. HUH? My last front loader allowed me to pre-wash on any cycle. So apparently my gentle items aren't allowed to need a pre-wash to help remove stains...there may be a way around this though, I just haven't had a chance to figure it out. Maybe just taking a normal load, lowering spin speed and soil level? I'll have to play around.
* each cycle remembers the last previously used settings, but if you don't remember what those were, you have to cycle through the selected options on the display which is not near as easy as just being able to look at selected hard buttons
* you need to close the detergent drawer with some force else it bounces back open (since opening it is pressing a button and it pops open). This is just taking me awhile to get used to it, so I'm sure it will be removed as a con at some point.

Obviously can't give any feedback on the dryer yet but I'm looking forward to the "line dry" cycle.

Feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer.

I've never checked my water temps, haven't had a need as everything comes out clean. I wash a lot of my laundry on cold, as per the washing instructions on the clothing. Clothing is unfortunately cheaply made nowadays, even the brand name, expensive clothing is not made like it was used to. Washing at hotter temps against the instructions can cause shrinkage and twisting (based on my experience).

For example, all my maternity clothing from a chain maternity store here in Canada has to washed on cold water, gentle cycle, hang to dry. Before we moved, I washed a load on cold water, normal cycle in my prior front loader, and all the t-shirts had the seams twist and were so uncomfortable to wear. I re-washed them at the new house in the Electrolux and hung them to dry and miraculously, they untwisted. I got lucky I guess!

I wash undies, towels and sheets on hot, diapers on hot with a sanitary cycle thrown in occasionally, some select whites on warm, but all my darks and colours are washed in cold.

So, in Europe, people wash their darks on hot too? How do the dark colours not fade? I like my blacks looking super black, I hate when they look washed out.

I do find dryers will fade dark clothing and of course shrink clothing and also the seams will twist on cottons nowadays. Almost none of the clothing manufacturers pre-wash fabric before making it and it doesn't always get laid properly, and thus twists if dried. But, I hang most of our things anyway. What I did in my last 2 houses was use the sensor dry feature and set it to "damp dry" so the clothing came out partially dry but not dry enough to fade or shrink and then they dried much quicker hanging. That's why I'm looking forward the the "line dry" setting on the Electrolux dryer! Hoping it might be beneficial for those times that my daughter tells me she needs her dance wear washed for the next day at 11pm at night and I know that it won't be dry by morning if I hang it.

Sounds like you'll get your dryer before I get mine so let me know how it is!