Are there any refrigerator companies that make a reliable fridge anymore ??

[coobie]

same with me, forget GE and Whirlpool, they are NOT the companies they once were!..

The 2 local appliance shops told me stay away from GE,LG and Samsung refrigerators as they are to hard to get parts for.Don't know if that is the real truth or not..

 

[fried1765]

We purchased a GE Refrigerator (French door model) in July 2018 yesterday it took a crap.No cooling to the fridge area but ok to the freezer area.Called local repair shops told they do not work on GE app.anymore since the parts are hard to get.Dealer stated GE sold out to china about 3 years ago.My local dealer gave me some tips over the phone what to check for but that did not fix my problem.From my research most fridge manufactures offer a 1 year warranty.

I had a Stainless counter depth Frigidaire (expensive) that I bought in NH, and took to my Summer home in Nova Scotia.
It quit while still under warranty.
Called Frigidaire headquarters in Georgia, and the female Frigidaire representative there told me that it obviously quit because "Canada has different electricity".

Contacted Frigidaire in Canada, and they eventually (rural Canada) found a repair guy.
He replaced the modulating fan that transfers freezer air to the refrigerator side for cooling.
He came back twice more (twice again ordered new fan), and replaced the fan twice more.
The problem continued....many weeks spent waiting for parts....not cold enough on refrigerator side.

I finally found an old retired RCAF guy who also was listed as a Frigidaire tech.
He came out, but was so crippled up that he could not get down on the floor.

Frigidaire corporation will not allow a homeowner to talk with their tech advisors, but the old guy had a tech authorization number, so I was able to speak with the troubleshooting phone tech.
Over the phone, that tech and I were able to determine that the main power control board was bad.

By now the Summer season was over, I left Nova Scotia, and the warranty ran out.
During the Winter I bought a new main power control board on E-Bay, and the next Spring I installed it.

Refrigerator ran fine with the new main power control board, and I sold the house the following Summer.

The local rural Canada appliance store wanted 8 weeks, and $4,000 CAD (+15% tax) for a new counter depth SS refrigerator.

A total refrigerator fiasco!

BTW: If you have a dedicated freezer, either chest or upright, there is a relatively simple way to use it as a refrigerator, and be able to swap the use of it, between refrigerator and freezer as desired.
I used that very system as a backup.

 

[bigtiller]

Amana refrigerators are made in Amana, Iowa...... Good stuff.

 

[ultrarunner]

Remember when refrigerators just worked and they weighed a ton too?

6 years ago the neighbor down the road did a 400k addition/remodel to the old family home...

Of course all new appliances... all of Grandma's appliances pushed out to the curb.

The first year they were pleased as could be... said energy use was down a third yet they added 30% more square footage...

Fast forward to 2020 and everything they had bought... all the stainless appliances, Intstahot, Garbage Disposer, Compactor, Neptune Washer/Dryer, Oven has all been replaced... except the electric cooktop set in granite.

The kicker is I took their old Maytag washer/dryer pair and old refrigerator and dishwasher and they have had zero problems in my rentals... we were talking over the holidays and he said it was mistake simply thinking new is better...

My take is are you really saving given the high cost to repair/replace not to mention the inconvenience?

PS... a builder trick here is to create a recess in the wall cavity behind the refrigerator to pickup extra depth so the standard refrigerator appears to be counter depth...

Depending on framing you can pick up 3 to 5 inches...

 

[Sigarms]

I'm guessing they are going the way of washing machines...

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...k-hvac-equipment-maintence-5.html#post5638701

That said, we picked up a mid size Frigadaire refrigerator last year for my father down in the basement, and so far (less than a year) it hasn't broke.

 

[k0ua]

Our old maytag refrig is about 20 years old. We had it a couple of years before we moved here in Branson in 2002. Still working.

 

[Bird]

It's always changing. I bought my first refrigerator at a used store place in 1968 and when I bought a new door gasket, I was told that it was a 1948 model. It still worked just fine when I bought a new one and gave that one away in 1972. I think that new one lasted about 5 years and died. They were both GE. But we're now using a Kenmore with ice maker in the kitchen and a Galaxy without ice maker in the shop. I bought both of them at the same time at Sears 13 years ago. The ice maker had to be replaced once, but that's all in 13 years.

 

[k0ua]

Yeah, I had to rebuild the icemaker too in the Maytag. Some plastic damage in the geartrain or something like that. OH, yeah a lightning strike took out the control panel circuit board too. I replaced that too.. None of these parts were terribly expensive. I did the work myself.

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It doesn't pay to call repairmen any more, you have to learn to fix things yourself. Good help is hard to find.

 

[jwstewar]

We bought a Samsung for our kitchen when we built the house in May of 2008. Only issues is, it will get dirty underneath and start leaking water. Have to take it apart and clean it again.

Bought a Frigidare about a year later for our utility room. It started leaking water too, but we couldn't get it to stop. Decided to replace it. Moved the old Sammy to the utility room. Wife said she didn't want another Samsung after the issues we had with our Sammy washer. Bought an LG. Couldn't get the fridge side below 50. Took it from Saturday until late Wednesday to start making ice. LG ran diagnostics over the phone and said everything appears to be OK we just opened the door too much. Went back to Lowes and started the exchange process. Bought another Sammy. Haven't had any problems with it and that was back in May.

 

[murphy1244]

Sounds like your evap fan is not working