My Appliance Family suffered a death
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Kestas
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It looks like you bought one without an electronic control panel. Nice!
Our luck with appliances continues to get worse as time goes on. Our GE refrigerator started acting up last week and isn't cooling properly. I have to drop it to the lowest possible temperature and turn on turbo. Cool for it to keep things cold. Bought it in 2019 with a 5-year warranty. Not fooling with trying to get it fixed. Grateful that it's still able to hold its own because the replacement we ordered won't be here till August 6th. It got as warm as 50° in the refrigerator part, the ice maker and freezer don't seem to be affected. I can hear a fan or some sort of motor going on and off, on and off repeatedly at times. I think this time the computer is the issue.
The Samsung 4-door it replaced only gave us 4 years, failed while still under warranty when covid was in full swing and couldn't find anybody to work on it because of the refrigerant. It didn't try to keep itself cool, it was running but the interior got to room temperature.
Going with another GE because I want another four-door, can't stand the bottom "drawer style" freezer on the current GE. It was a bad choice from the start, just wish I could get 10 to 12 years out of an appliance for a change.
The Samsung 4-door it replaced only gave us 4 years, failed while still under warranty when covid was in full swing and couldn't find anybody to work on it because of the refrigerant. It didn't try to keep itself cool, it was running but the interior got to room temperature.
Going with another GE because I want another four-door, can't stand the bottom "drawer style" freezer on the current GE. It was a bad choice from the start, just wish I could get 10 to 12 years out of an appliance for a change.
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
Anything higher up the line had the flat panel in certain areas.
If it's still an option add a 3-5 year extended warranty. I added a 3 year warranty to my Whirlpool fridge through Lowes. So far no issues after a year. Apparently Lowes doesn't really mention it but if you don't use your warranty you get 50 percent of it back at the end.
We have a Whirlpool side-by-side refrigerator w/ice maker, mfg. date 03/2006, which came with the house we bought in 2017, and it still works great. I clean the coils every 6 months. In 8 yrs, I have only had to replace the water filter housing (leaking) and the icemaker (died) - no other issues.
A Whirlpool washer & dryer set also came with the house, but the washer had the wash plate design, and after the original spline stripped-out, it seems the replacements - whether OEM or Amazon specials - would last 6 months, despite using more water and lighter loads. We ended up buying a Maytag set through maytag.com last year for $1,500 including delivery & haul-away. Note: The washer has already had its controller replaced, as it wouldn't fill the tub on certain wash cycles <!>.
You're on top of it. Dirty clogged coils is what shortens and is the early death of many refrigerators. If you're not aware several box stores sell a coil cleaning attachment that you hook up to your vacuum cleaner. It's worth a look.
