Posted on 10/28/2011 12:03:37 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
Hopey Changey! Hey, maybe they can hire that Maytag guy!
People are rehabbing their old appliances and running them as long as they can.
Two reasons:
-the recession
-the new “green” Energy Star appliances suck!
I hope all my Whirlpool appliances don’t become orphans.
Obamaconomy is no economy
Bought my house in 1989. Included washing machine is a Whirlpool “Design 2000”. Imagine how cool that must have sounded back then. I like it.
I bet this plant's job will go to Mexico or China.
A Whirlpool hotwater heater broke in my house, destroyed 4,200 sf of hardwoods.
It was 10 year heater and broke 1 year and 4 days after install. On inspection, it appears they missed 18 inches of weld.
The heater was made in the USA, which is why I bought it.
They offerred a new crappy hot water heater in settlement.
I don’t care what happens to them.
Great. Let them go. And strip them of their citizenship if they try to come back when times are good (and they WILL get better). Tired of hearing weeping tears over these greedy, anti-american companies who flock to communist countries. If they love the ChiComs so much, let them become one of their fold.
We bought an new model home in 2004. The kitchen was outfitted completely with Whirlpool stainless steel appliances. By 2009, the motor failed in the side by side refrigerator. We replaced it with a Frigidaire. No more Whirlpool.
Change! Change we can BELIEVE in!
I didn’t know there were any appliance makers left who manufactured in the U.S. except the very high-end ones.
One lesson I learned the hard way, like you did, is never put a water heater where it can damage interior flooring. With almost all water heaters, it’s not whether or not they will leak but when.
Whirlpool owns Maytag.
Ask anybody who bought a Maytag Neptune washer in the last 5 years what they think of Whirlpool.
These folks are primarily tanking because of BAD PRODUCT.
I hope to keep my 14 y/o Maytag “classic” washer til I die.
Both my (adult) daughters have dumped their fancy front loaders they bought when they got married in favor of the old reliable.
Concur with that. I’m of the “replace at 10 years” attitude, and my last one only made it 6 or 7, despite having a 10 or 12 year warranty (can’t remember which).
And I really need to put in a leak detector / alarm down there. Even though a leak can’t hurt much, it can still be a PITA.
‘-the new green Energy Star appliances suck!”
BIG TIME!!! Garbage!
Down the drain ping. Thanks Patton@Bastogne.
Reported this morning to be 400 job eliminations in Michigan.
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