I'm teaching my little sister how to drive. At first we had multiple jackrabbit starts. I didn't know 16 year old 4 cylinder Hyundais could spin the tires!Letting the boy get some practice. He's driving the same vehicle he came home from the hospital in almost 15 years ago. Spent 6 months in the hospital. Getting better but the tire might be bald, the escape spins them easily.
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That machine will last and be very easily repaired.
This past weekend the wife n I were just thinking n talking about things like ..... our times-years in each house and cars , purchases etc... When we thought about the washer / dryers. Right now we have fairly new Maytag natural gas clothes dryer - replaced (2) years ago and Whirlpool washer replaced it (4) years ago. Those brands were bought because we buy from a local family owned (99 years in business) appliance store owned by a guy I went to school with 1st thru 12th grade. . He is now doing Maytag/Whirlpools only for past ten years when there was so much unknown about what was going to occur with Sears / Kenmore brands. This fellow is an electrical foreman at Shell Oil Refinery when he is not running his store and does the store's own warranty + other repair work himself. One of the reasons his store has been such a succesful one for all the years regardless all the big box stores all around him is the loyalty he has shown people as he will do repair / warranty work for folks at times even when not really covered. It means a lot to folks cause we could all run to buy similar a lot cheaper yet its hard to do when you have a guy that is so good to folks and to community. Prior to those recent purchases of other brands we had always prefered n bought Sears - Kenmore since very first ones when we married 45 years ago. In all that time we probably only replaced them 3 times. I would say we got our money's worth at only replacing one about every 15 years? Have a double door Kenmore refrigerator freezer that just made 14 years yesterday. Very strange but a fact. Almost every time we had moved (last was 25 yrs ago) to another home , not long after the appliances, mostly the washers usually conked out first and then sometimes some other one might. I am not sure these days about the newer Kenmore's Made in Mexico quality but they sure have been a brand that could be depended on better than most others out there for many many years. May be that they still are as I have not heard any or much complaints about them. Usually when a major brand's quality takes a nose dive that is not something you can keep from the public any more.That machine will last and be very easily repaired.