[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

My father had a Sears Coldspot freezer from the early sixties that ran constantly and problem-free for fifty years.

[monkeyshine]

Yeah they don’t make em like the used to. Our fridge is only a few years old. It still stays cold, but the icemaker no longer works. The previous fridge we had lasted 20 years before the compressor went out.

[dragnet2]

Beware folks, many of these companies are selling 100% junk...They’re lying about everything...Many models they’ll tell ya parts are unobtanium and they’re selling these under various names, half the time you won’t even know who the actual manufacturer is. JUNK!

[Rlsau1]

I had an Amana chest freezer for 44 years and not one problem until it died. I bought a Hot Point on sale and it failed after 19 months. Everything now is cheap, cheap, cheap except the price. I think there’s a market for a high quality fridge/freezer without all the bells and whistles. You know, it just works and lasts.

[Red Badger]

Our LG compressor died and they came and installed a new one, 10 year warranty . The new one lasted about a year. They would not replace it.............

[Rowdyone]

We just lost a Kitchenaid that we bought in 1996. Our ten year old Samsung has a poor design defrost drain that freezes up the icemaker in the freezer before freezing a sheet of ice under deli drawer. Trying a You Tube fix before deciding to replace or not. My serviceman says GE currently has the best reputation.

[chickenlips]

Thanks for posting this.

I have used LG washers and dryers and they have been very good, so far. But based on the responses to this post I won’t be buying a LG refrigerator.

I have heard only bad things about Samsung appliances in general, so they were already on the banned list.

It used to be the ice makers, sensors and relays that were the problems in refrigerators with compressors lasting decades if a power surge didn’t take them out. It’s shocking that manufacturers can no longer build a decent compressor. Or maybe they don’t want to build a decent compressor.

[falcon99]

We have a 7 ear old LG refrigerator that the compressor went out on. LG has the worst customer service of any company I have ever dealt with. We are now one month since the compressor went out and my appliance guy still doesn’t have the compressor from LG. Every step of the way LG slow rolled the process, first sending a non working link to order the compressor, then not working with my appliance guy to order the compressor and then once ordered slow rolled the order and shipping. I will, without doubt never buy another LG product again due to the non existent customer service.

[EEGator]

My cousin has a fridge in the garage from the 50’s.
Always cold…

[Flaming Conservative]

1 year ago, we got a new fridge. It’s a Kucht, which I purchased from Amazon, with 12 monthly payments with no interest. It was $2500, before taxes. I just finished paying it off. It works like a champ, so far. Kucht mostly makes very high end appliances, and professional appliances, and are an American company. The fridge was made in Mexico, which is one reason why I bought it, instead of all the others, of which most are made in China. It has a 4 year warranty, which is about 3 years more than any of the others. It replaced my 15 year old, $800 Kenmore side by side, which is still going strong on my screened in back porch. This one is a French door type, with a bottom freezer; I got tired of not being able to easily see what was in the back of the bottom shelves with contorting myself, in that side by side. Every other brand out there, with perhaps the exception of Nancy Pelosi’s $10,000 fridge, has terrible reviews and failures, including the hallowed Kitchen Aid. One repairman site said fridges with ice and water in the door have more problems; the ice maker in my side by side quit, but we didn’t want to replace it. This fridge has an ice maker only, in the freezer. It does have plumbing for a filter for the ice maker on the back, which is absolutely essential in our case, as our municipal water is terrible. I expect it to last for many years.

[eyedigress]

A clue for some.

If your frig compressor stops working and your hear “clicking”
the start capacitor has failed.

15 dollar part at the bottom of the fridge.

Pull the fridge from the wall, remove the cardboard in the back and you will see a capacitor relay combo held on by a clip. Remove and order from amazon.

Please unplug fridge before removing cardboard.

[CFW]

In our family, we handed down refrigerators and freezers for decades. We got an upright freezer from my in-laws when they built a new house and it worked for about twenty more years. The same goes for the used refrigerator that we were given from “Who knows...I can’t remember?”. We have purchased multiple used appliances over the past few decades and only purchased brand new ones a few years ago. I don’t expect them to last as long as the used ones we purchased decades ago.

It’s a bit like new light-bulbs. Years ago, they lasted for years. Now, they blink, sputter, and quit after only a few months.

[Maris Crane]

“planned obsolescence”

[FarCenter]

Never buy an icemaker. Never buy a refrigerator with any mechanism in the door. Never buy one with more than one refrigerator compartment and one freezer compartment.

[dagunk]

Wife bought a cheap GE chest freezer at a Home Depot 20 years or so ago. Lived in the garage in southern Nevada for 16 years. Think lotsa heat.
Still working today in the Kansas basement.

[Theophilus]

I have a ancient freon freezer over 50 years old that I keep in an un-airconditioned storage room. It’s still going strong!

[daniel1212]

“One morning I went to get milk out and it was sour,” said the Redwood City homeowner.

Old former dairy worker, delivery man here. Milk is a good "canary" as an indicator of refer temp, as it is a very temperature critical food, for its shelf life is not very long, plus leaving a plastic bottle (cardboard=better taste) of milk out in a warm house increases bacterial growth. Best to keep refer temp as close to 32F as you can on the shelf milk is put. But its shelf life is far longer than the good old days.

https://americandairy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dairy-Temperature-Chart.pdf

[NorthMountain]

the linear compressor uses less energy

"Green" == crap.

[KosmicKitty]

I have a GE refrigerator that was built in 1956. My parents had it when they bought their house in 1959. It has been running continuously since then,

Just needs to be defrosted every so often.

[ridesthemiles]

I have a refrigerator/freezer in my garage that still does everything it is supposed to do.

I bought it in NOVEMBER 1965 & it has been moved 4 times.

Never getting rid of it.

Have a 1972 upright freezer in my kitchen that runs perfectly well.

Bought 2nd upright freezer the day after Obama got elected in 2008. Runs fine.