I use a guy who is firefighter but also services appliances. He says never buy an LG or Samsung.
I have a 15 year old Samsung frontloader dryer (gas). I bought the washer and dryer at the same time, but just replaced the washing machine last year with an LG frontloader.
Hope your friend is wrong on the new LG!
My Samsung creates more ice below the dairy tray than the ice maker does. Ice maker died and they did replace it. Other than that I’ve installed the part that supposedly would be the fix. Nope, it wasn’t! I found a fix though, I put a towel at the back of the deli tray and it seems to have stopped making an ice skating rink.
Don’t buy Samsung!
In the meantime the old GE monitor top refrigerator, that was my great uncle’s, is still running after over 90 years.
Samsung is great.
The problem is those wonderful electronic controls. Kitchen ranges are the worst. The mother board seems to be good for a year to 18 months then it expires. If you spend $7k for a stove then it is cost effective to to get the circuit board replaced, but that unit from WalMart will set you back just about the price of a new unit when the circuit board goes. My best friend here has an appliance repair shop and I worked for him in his first year. He learned to specialize in the high end units because that 1000$ stove or refrigerator is not worth fixing unless it is on a home appliance insurance plan.
I’m a landlord with nine refrigerators and other appliances. Never, never buy Samsung. Faulty electronics, buggy software and poor quality. The one in my house has a bad computer card that can’t be bought. Even If I could get the card no one will come out and work on it. I still use the freezer, but I have to keep a towel on the floor because no matter what I do it leaks. It weighs way too much and requires two men and a mule to move.
“says never buy an LG or Samsung”
Yep, the highly recommended repair guy I brought in to fix my 10-year-old Maytag Fridge. a couple years ago said the exact same thing. Stay away from LG and Samsung on the washing / kitchen appliances.
Ditto !!!
LG/Samsung, the only stuff that they make that’s worth buying are phones and TV’s. EVERTHING ELSE IS GARBAGE !!!
A few years ago We needed a washer/dryer. I told Mama to buy a used set from the local Appliance Supply and Repair business and She said “No I want a brand new set” and went to Best Buy and spent $600 for a top loader washer with huge capacity to be able to wash the heavy bedding items from. She also got a gas dryer big enough to dry a Moose. I made Her get the extended warranty on them. The dryer was fine, no problems whatsoever. The washer was/is a POS !!! We had to get repair service within the first 6 months, they replaced: the control circuit board 2 times, all the shock absorbers that supported the drum, several sensors and it still didn’t work properly. The damned thing has a support system that can send information to the service technician via a cellular phone. The damned thing never did work properly.
For the price of that new POS We could have had a nice used one for a couple of hundred bucks.
My brother was an appliance tech, worked for a couple of big companies, and he said to avoid LG and Samsung.
Most manufacturers of white goods are now aiming for a life span of 5-7 years for “durable goods” like your fridge, stove, etc.
It may be a bit spendy, but buying Whirlpool, Miele, mid and upper level G E and Bosch is a far better option than nearly anything from Korea right now.