speaking of refrigerators not lasting, had a repair guy here

Aug 22, 2019, 3:24 PM

today. The bottom-freezer door of my Frigidaire French-door wouldn't close and seal on both sides unless you pushed in the right side after closing it. And it made a crackling, grinding sound when opening and closing. I've tried adjusting the door per the book instructions, but that didn't work. The Lowe's guy talked me into buying the extended warranty when I bought it, which I never do. I got an offer in the mail reminding me that it expired 9/01/19 and I could renew it. Welp, I called for warranty service.

Nice young guy shows up, looks it over, then gets on his phone talking with an expert somewhere. Great. I said, I think it needs new slide assemblies on both sides, because it's crackling on both sides. He keeps looking it over and talking on the phone, the person tells him a couple things to check, but they don't have a clue. Finally, he says on the phone, "can we order the whole slide assembly for both sides? because I think that's what it is." The person on the phone looks it up, says OK, and the parts are on the way. This is not good when they send some yahoo that has to talk on the phone to a remote expert to try to diagnose appliance repair.

At least I think this repair will offset my warranty cost. Winning.

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You see it all the time. When a new product comes out, those that buy the earliest models, will have them last forever. My parents bought their house in 1981. It was built in 1978. It had this amazing thing called an automatic garage door opener. It was installed when the house was built in 1978. It was made by Sears and was a very early model. And it lasted until 2016. Almost 40 years. Guy putting a new one in said he still sees these old ones working all the time, but the new ones last 10 or maybe 15 years, tops. I'm still on my original Keurig. I bet if you buy a new one today it won't make it past 10 years.

Companies innovate and come out with new and popular products which people gobble up. Then they start cutting corners to increase profits (that's a big part of it), plus they make them not to last so they can sell more.

I'd pay $20K for a fridge and not blink twice if I knew it would last 50+ years. People WILL pay for quality.

speaking of refrigerators not lasting, had a repair guy here

Yeah, but they've had your money all along....

that 1/10th percent in my checking account compounds.

oh, and guess how old the fridge is?

Sounds like y’all jerked the hell outa that door

I've had the EXACT same problem....so I gotta ask

no ice. Had that on a different fridge one time.

I had a new dishwasher delivered a few years back

Miele make a lot of the appliances on high end yachts***

Got a 1992 fridge running fine in the garage.

Oh, they can make them.

Re: Oh, they can make them.

The key is to hop on a new product fast

FLEXIN on 'em

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