We got all new kitchenaid appliances when we moved in 2011. I've replaced oven heating elements, microwave door latches/switches, ice maker doors, motors, and circuit boards. the only time a professional came was for a refrigerant leak. Same for the 2011 Samsung gas dryer; it's been dismantled multiple times to clean lint, and I had to replace an igniter last year. I use appliancepartspros .com for most everything. They have phone support and a forum that have both been super helpful.
The Lifespan of Large Appliances Is Shrinking
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Samsung and LG refrigerators are awful. When we were researching what we wanted it was pretty clear to avoid them. They're better in the washer/dryer options but still not great. We had a Samsung or LG dishwasher, it lasted 18 months. However the replacement whirlpool has been great since then.
When I bought this one, all the reviews were glowing, though it was a new model.
Now, a bit over 3 years later, 400+ 1 star reviews out of 1200 total.
Our LG fridge that came with the house when we bought it failed a few months ago.
I finally got so fed up with all these failing refrigerators (we've had probably 5 of them fail over the past decade or so) that I went to Menards and bought the most barebones fridge I could:
https://www.menards.com/main/applia...205m1w/p-1642874287345158-c-1496238287886.htm
Super simple, cheap, and if it fails it won't be as big of a deal as it didn't cost anywhere near as much as some of these "fancy" ones.
I also took the advice that every single appliance repairman has given me, "never buy a fridge with a built in ice maker or water dispenser".
I finally got so fed up with all these failing refrigerators (we've had probably 5 of them fail over the past decade or so) that I went to Menards and bought the most barebones fridge I could:
https://www.menards.com/main/applia...205m1w/p-1642874287345158-c-1496238287886.htm
Super simple, cheap, and if it fails it won't be as big of a deal as it didn't cost anywhere near as much as some of these "fancy" ones.
I also took the advice that every single appliance repairman has given me, "never buy a fridge with a built in ice maker or water dispenser".
I've never been happy with a single Samsung-made item. Back in the 80s, when the brand first came into my consciousness, they had a reputation as a cheap, poor-quality manufacturer of TVs and home stereo components. I never paid attention to them, but then in the 2000s, I started to see them everywhere, and their reputation was much better. I have owned a refrigerator and the large, flat-screen TV made by them in the last ten years. Both were disasters. I won't ever buy one of their products again.
That's what I did with a Frigidaire top freezer unit. Six years so far with zero issues. I bought a Bosch no frills dishwasher at that same time and have had no issues with it either.
I've always heard never buy a bottom freezer, and I've know a lot of people to have issues with bottom freezer units.
We bought our first fridge with ice/water in about 1990, and every single one since has been such. Never had a problem with any of them. GE and Whirlpool.
I've never had any problems with any Samsung product either - but I've never owned one of their appliances.
Yep, I've heard that as well about the bottom freezer units.
We bought two of the ones I linked to. We use one as a fridge and one as a freezer. We have enough room that it isn't an issue.
Like I said, they're cheap enough that if one were to fail I wouldn't be as pissed off as I was when our $3000 fridges failed.
Interesting, I've had nothing but problems with fridges that use built-in water / ice makers. Kitchen Aid, GE, LG, Samsung, etc. Every single one of them has given me crap.
I finally just put the RO system in under the sink and bought a standalone ice maker.
They do. I've owned two of them. Both were obsoleted by new "G" numbers before they actually died.
We purchased a Kitchen Aid fridge at our home in Oregon. It was something like $2800. No "smart" features, just a huge fridge. No idea why it was that much as it doesn't do anything more than any other fridge does.
The idea that a fridge needs to be something fancy or complicated is beyond me. It's a damn fridge, all it's meant to do is keep things cool.
I bought the cheapest whirlpool fridge I could in 2010 . It has been great , one of my main factors was finding something with a very old school rear mounted condenser that stays cool naturally without relying on a high fin count forced air dirt magnet condenser .
I have a 65” LG smart tv. I basically only watch youtube on it so I need wifi for it. The wifi went out and I googled looking for a repair solution. Turns out this is not an isolated issue. There is a bend in the computer ribbon that has to be straightened out. So I remove the many small screws from the back panel and massaged the wires and it worked. I month later same problem same solution. After the third time I decided to just keep the back off to save some time. Every month or so I need to massage the wires. I’m just too frugal to go out and buy a new tv. When I do it won’t be a Korean brand.
Yep, these are all things I took into consideration as well when I went looking to replace the fridge.
I'm happy with the purchase thus far. Like I said, for the price it makes a lot more sense than one of these fancy fridges that are bound to fail.
Our Samsung 60" OLED was literally just falling apart. Gravity was causing the guts to slide out the bottom. One day, all I did was grab the bezel while cleaning the screen, and the something in the screen cracked, rendering it useless. Then, once I took it off the wall and "dissected" it, I learned that there were no screws holding much of it together - just adhesive! Junk...
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