Appliance Buying Rant

Firstram said:
I just replaced our 23yo washer and dryer, went through the same process! I told my wife, only 675 loads to go before we see a ROI over going to the laundromat.
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I see you haven’t been to laundromat in a while. You could make payments on a new washer and dryer for what it costs now. Of course if you could find new ones.

This whole boondoggle that is appliances now is beyond disgusting. You cannot find a “manual” one and cannot find one that doesn’t all kinds of electronic useless addon junk. And a useless stainless exterior. You can’t even get white appliances and if you find them they are more! And just as rare is finding a real tech. We almost had to replace our fridge and was lucky to find a guy who knew exactly what was wrong and even had the part on his truck. I am dreading if we ever have replace anything because getting screwed through ignorance is bad enough but knowing up front is the worst! Why can’t they make stuff like my ‘40’s O’Keefe & Merritt stove anymore? Probably cost a fortune.
 
ErichKeane said:
I got a Speed Queen S7 stacked washer dryer for our place,
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I got their laundromat washer and dryer. I'm not sure there's even anything electronic in them. You can hear the timers going "tic tic tic tic"
Also, the dryer has headlights inside, so you can find your socks! True bachelors know that you just dress directly from the dryer.
 
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Firstram said:
I just replaced our 23yo washer and dryer, went through the same process! I told my wife, only 675 loads to go before we see a ROI over going to the laundromat.
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I bought a set of Maytag washer and dryer back in 1991. My wife loved the set. I had to fix a couple things but they worked fine until they were destroyed in the fire back in 2018. Now that is durable goods.!!
The house we bought came with a new set of Kitchen Aid. My wife hates the washer.
 
I miss Sears. I bought a Sears-branded water heater in '07- warranted for 9 years- still going strong. It's an AO Smith.
My fridge from Sears also- Whirlpool made. "America's quietest" which I like since it's right here in my small kitchen.
Wouldn't be able to replace either of them now for less than an arm and leg- if I could even find them which I couldn't
 
I paid extra for a Speed Queen washer with the mechanical timer, as opposed to the digital pad.
Two years later, I drove 300 miles to the nearest dealer to pay a very pretty penny for their mechanical dryer.

I do this based on the experience I have had with Speed Queen stuff before. I fully expect these machines to outlive my concern for clean clothes and repairman schedules.
 
C-Bag said:
I see you haven’t been to laundromat in a while. You could make payments on a new washer and dryer for what it costs now. Of course if you could find new ones.
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unfortunately, I spend nine months a year traveling for work, so I feed the coin machines in a hotel weekly. The sad part of the whole ordeal is I was home for two months and the wiring harness failed three days after I left for work!
I have replaced the wear items in the dryer twice, and the washer once since ‘99. I couldn’t find anyone willing to repair the no longer available wiring harness, and I don’t think we would have ever gotten the smell out of the dryer! I’m just glad the house didn’t burn down.
I hope the new units last as long as the old ones did!
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We bought a complete set of Whirlpool kitchen appliances about 5 years ago, nothing but problems with them. Good thing I am handy and can repair them, would have cost a fortune to get the repairman out each time. The microwave has momentary switch modules in the door that kept failing, it’s an off the shelf part, so finally bought a better brand than the cheap Whirlpool part that was in there and two years and counting since a failure. The fridge has LED lights and one element went bad, so the entire string was only half bright. I kept the old one and plan on replacing that element and using it for lighting in my workshop, so not all bad, just really expensive for some lights.

My parents just went through an experience recently, they bought a fridge for the garage, supposed to be frost free. Fire it up and next day frost on everything, they live in FL, so it’s humid. Company sends out a service tech and verifies the frame is bent causing it to not seal, takes lots of pictures, etc. A few weeks go by, my dad hasn’t heard anything about replacing it, so calls. They can’t find any record of the service tech visit and say they need to send a tech out to look at it. You guessed it, same tech shows up and can’t believe he has to write another report. They finally get the new fridge, but the old one was left at their house and company wants my parents to dispose of defective one. My dad goes down to Home Depot and tells the story to the manager, manager calls up the company and rips them a new one, finally gets it resolved. I don’t recall which brand it was, but I will be calling my dad to ask when it’s time for us to buy something new!
 
We were fed up with the crappy quality of new appliances after speaking with a repair guy who told us all the name brands are designed to fail within 5-10 years, he stated if you want reliability get Miele or Bosch, so we did.

Bosch dishwasher is near silent, and washes better than anything we have had in the past. Miele washer and dryer now 20 years old, one really trivial repair, the service guy looked at the hours with his diagnostic PC and stated it's only at half its expected lifetime.

The last Kenmore ( just before the Miele) was a complete POS, failed under warranty three times, then after warranty the entire drum had to be replaced, and then finally the motor. Poorly designed, untested garbage.

Too bad Toyota and Honda don't make appliances they would last 100 years.
 
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