How long should things last?

[ultrarunner]

My biggest complaint is newer home appliances. We built our home 12 years ago. We are on our 3rd refrigerator. 3rd dryer, 3rd washer. Dishwasher, oven/range, and microwave are still going strong. Current refrigerator is 3 years old and just had it's first repair. I always pay for the extended warranties out to 5 years on major appliances. Most don't last that long.

On the flip side I have a fridge at my shop we bought 22 years ago. Basic but does have water and ice maker and has never had a repair. We also have an older drink fridge that we bought used 10 years ago for our basement. It was 8 years old at the time making it 18 years old now. It has outlasted the 2 new fridges we bought and I expect it will outlast this newest 3 year old one as well.

I hear this over and over… neighbors did extensive remodel 10 years ago and replaced ancient refrigerator in the color yellow… a beast several men struggled to move.

In 10 years 2 LG and now GE

Wife lived her LG refrigerators until they stopped working…

 

[MossRoad]

My biggest complaint is newer home appliances. We built our home 12 years ago. We are on our 3rd refrigerator. 3rd dryer, 3rd washer. Dishwasher, oven/range, and microwave are still going strong. Current refrigerator is 3 years old and just had it's first repair. I always pay for the extended warranties out to 5 years on major appliances. Most don't last that long.

On the flip side I have a fridge at my shop we bought 22 years ago. Basic but does have water and ice maker and has never had a repair. We also have an older drink fridge that we bought used 10 years ago for our basement. It was 8 years old at the time making it 18 years old now. It has outlasted the 2 new fridges we bought and I expect it will outlast this newest 3 year old one as well.

Yikes! We've been married 40 years and are on our 2nd washer, 3rd dryer, and 2nd refrigerator, and that's only because we left the old ones with the house we sold.

I will say, my employer has some apartments with appliances that are only 3-4 years old and we are calling for service on them more than I expected. The washers, in particular, do NOT like hard water. Neither do the dishwashers. High efficiency means they use less water, but to get any flow, you need high pressure. High pressure requires small orifices. Small orifices get plugged with lime. The end.

 

[jk96]

I hear this over and over… neighbors did extensive remodel 10 years ago and replaced ancient refrigerator in the color yellow… a beast several men struggled to move.

In 10 years 2 LG and now GE

Wife lived her LG refrigerators until they stopped working…

Our second fridge we replaced was LG. Bad compressor. Compressor was still under factory warranty but LG could not get anyone to our place to fix it. It took three no shows on service calls that were scheduled and about 2 months of frustration but I finally got a 100% buy back including the aftermarket warranty purchase from NFM. This was not easily done and took a deep dive into some corporate documents to find the email for the head of sales USA division. The original offer from customer care was a 60% buy back on a 2-year-old refrigerator that was still covered under the compressor warranty. One of the most frustrating things I have ever gone through dealing with a company. Every no show on the service call required a new contact with LG who then referred us back to the same company that no showed as they were the only authorized rep for our area

 

[old and tired]

I would never buy an LG refrigerator, I had bought a GE, 2015, and a GE, 2018, both, no problems so far (1 for a new house at the farm and 2nd was a remodel from house fire in 2018). We actually bought all GE kitchen stuff. Love the dishwasher... never know if it's actually on or not!

 

[bigtiller]

Cheese should last longer.
In my house, an 8 oz. brick of any kind of cheese disappears in as little as 2 days.

 

[2manyrocks]

Get a refrigerator with a lock.

 

[Dftodd]

Get a refrigerator with a lock.

That doesn't work, when the person installing the lock, is also the one inhaling the cheese

 

[rontaki]

I trust Korean electronics, just not anything with moving parts.

 

[ultrarunner]

Our second fridge we replaced was LG. Bad compressor. Compressor was still under factory warranty but LG could not get anyone to our place to fix it. It took three no shows on service calls that were scheduled and about 2 months of frustration but I finally got a 100% buy back including the aftermarket warranty purchase from NFM. This was not easily done and took a deep dive into some corporate documents to find the email for the head of sales USA division. The original offer from customer care was a 60% buy back on a 2-year-old refrigerator that was still covered under the compressor warranty. One of the most frustrating things I have ever gone through dealing with a company. Every no show on the service call required a new contact with LG who then referred us back to the same company that no showed as they were the only authorized rep for our area

I had a newer LG that came with the house with bad compressor… found still under warranty but that doesn’t help when the place is rented.

LG offered to send compressor as available but I would need to arrange installation.

Renters said they will buy their own if $20 knocked off the rent… I said done!

 

[ljjhouser]

We do forget how long we have stuff and are surprised when they quit. But some thing seem to cost a lot compared to the warranty period. Home furnace/ac - HVAC comes to mind. Two years ago my system quit. The replacement system estimate was $12,500. Warrenty was 10 years. That means a person would have to set aside $100 every month (not accounting for inflation) for 10 years. I am always surprised when something expensive retires and I usually wind up asking my wife - "How old is that thing."