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Originally Posted by dewilson58
Smart wife!!! We have a +30 year old Kenmore up North.....runs forever. When we purchased our new one for TV, they said we will be lucky to get 10 years.
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Ten years is about right. A few years ago I replaced all my appliances. I asked the salesperson what the life expectancy of the new appliances were and he told me ten years. He told me that compared to the appliances that we use to buy thirty years ago the appliances today are “junk”. The reason for this is that in order to meet federal standards for energy efficiency the manufacturers had to decrease the size of the motors that run them. Today the motors are a third the size and weight of the motors that use to be put in appliances.