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12-01-2022, 07:11 AM #51Registered User
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These are not available anymore (at least in Canada)
Everything has to be high efficiency which requires a control board and lots of complicated (easy to break) sensors.
I've been through 2 modern washers this year, first one was a cheap one from Home Depot. After many episodes, it got sold at a lost and I purchased a new Maytag one from the local appliance shop. If anything happens, I have somewhere to go.
I found the whole experience very frustrating.
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12-01-2022, 07:13 AM #52
@Tor-tour nice... this is what I'm looking for.
The next time I buy new I'll ask more questions in it's repairability and warranty.
How old is the unit you repaired?
I'm kind of wondering if the older stuff would have provided me the option to just replace an $80 part... but the new one doesn't?
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12-01-2022, 07:17 AM #53
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12-01-2022, 07:17 AM #54
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12-01-2022, 07:26 AM #55
Appliances are luck of the draw IMO. We typically try to buy higher end stuff that reviewed well in the hope it can last 10 years prior to us getting $250 to death by the repair guy before we buy a new appliance. If LG will fix it for $279 I would just do it and move on in the hope it is then trouble free for 8 more years. Our previous LG washer/dryer lasted for 10 years before it started to shit the bed. The GE that replaced it seems even better. Time will tell.
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12-01-2022, 07:26 AM #56Registered User
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12-01-2022, 07:33 AM #57Registered User
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Right to repair!
A $700 washer will work well for as long as a $1500 washer so in this case "buy twice" is the right answer.
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12-01-2022, 07:40 AM #58
Just as a data point, I recently picked up a basic stainless dishwasher at a scratch and dent appliance place for $125. It was a new unit that was installed in order to get a CO then removed and sent to the scratch & dent place.
Brandine: Now Cletus, if I catch you with pig lipstick on your collar one more time you ain't gonna be allowed to sleep in the barn no more!
Cletus: Duly noted.
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12-01-2022, 07:52 AM #59
Back when grandfather had the bauxite mine in Guyana, his washer was an Amerindian woman named Maria. She would beat his clothes on a rock with a stick while standing in ankle deep water in the Berbice River. After drying in the hot tropical sun and after a light dusting of taro starch on his cotton dress shirts, his clothes would look as if they came from a Chinese laundry in San Francisco.
Anyway, one day it was quite busy at the river and Maria ventured beyond the confines of the ankle deep portion of the river and was attacked by piranha. She later succumbed to her injuries. A repairman would have been of little use in this situation, but fortunately Maria had a sister, Candela, who grandfather hired in her stead."timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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12-01-2022, 07:56 AM #60Registered User
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^^^ sounds like you forgot to log in as digital drews mom
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12-01-2022, 07:57 AM #61
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12-01-2022, 07:59 AM #63Registered User
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12-01-2022, 08:08 AM #64
That writing style is familiar, though. Hemingway?
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12-01-2022, 08:10 AM #65Registered User
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Hemingway is from Joisey? Who knoo
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12-01-2022, 08:20 AM #66
I'm not Hemingway. I admired his work though.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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12-01-2022, 08:30 AM #67
Same with when I talked to the appliance parts shop I go to. They know EXACTLY what's good/bad for every year. Brands have all had their ups and downs. Some we've considered great have massively gone downhill, and some that were crap aren't as bad these days. Doesn't seem to be any set rule. Worth going in and shooting the shit with the parts counter person and seeing what they have to say.
I have an LG washer/dryer combo I got cheap second-hand, and it's been great, but I've heard horror stories about their fridges. As a gross generalization, I would avoid most anything Samsung. Even though I have a few of their things, I still think they are teh suck. My biggest beef with the Korean brands like Samsung is that they are very much on the spendy side while ALSO being unreliable. I could forgive their lack of reliability if they were also cheap. Go walk the aisles at Home Depot/Lowes and a Samsung Fridge can easily set you back like 3 G's. For THAT much money, now we're into Miele counter-depth territory and other higher end Euro brands, and I'd rather go German than Korean. Again, as a gross generalization.
Then there are some brands that ARE known for not being the most reliable, like Sub-Zero, BUT they do at least have a pretty good advantage in parts availability and serviceability. I can see some value in that.
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12-01-2022, 08:37 AM #68
I wish Hemingway would return
I still call it The Jake.
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12-01-2022, 08:41 AM #69
Just here to say that Samsung is just as bad. Fridge and dishwasher both lasted less than 3 years. At least the dishwasher was light enough to go out the back door.
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12-01-2022, 08:48 AM #70
I shoulda done that with MY POS Samsung dishwasher. I threw every conceivable possible component at it, short of the motherboard, which would cost about as much a replacement dishwasher. Was also >3 years old and the guy who bought it, spent about $2K on it!!! WHY?!
I replaced it with some fancy floor model GE Cafe that, while nothing to write home about, I scored for a couple hundred bucks, and has been much better at actually doing it's sole job, washing dishes. That fancy Samsung "waterfall" sprayer was utterly worthless, even when it "worked." What an expensive piece of junk.
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12-01-2022, 08:53 AM #71
Sort of accumulated LG appliances non-purposely tho it's nice having all the finishes match. With that, I'll count myself in the lucky camp. Fridge, Front Loader, Dryer, Stove. Going on ten years and only 1 DYI repair of a washing machine elec control valve which was a common part used across makes and mfgrs.
My dishwasher is at the same 1100-1200 price point as the OP and I've only have had it 1 year. Crossing fingers on the longevity but functionally & lack of noise, it's impressive thus far. It connects to your phone in seemingly non-useful ways.
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12-01-2022, 09:03 AM #72
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12-01-2022, 09:05 AM #73
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12-01-2022, 09:09 AM #74
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12-01-2022, 09:11 AM #75
If... and big if... that fixes it for 8 years the value wouldn't be horrible.
But only standing by the work for 90 days, and the outright lying makes me want to give them zero more $$$ ever and buy something from someone that will stand by it with a real warranty.
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