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Originally Posted by davem4616
we quickly gave away every kitchen appliance that came with our new designer house and replaced everything with the Sears Kenmore Elite model...we had that brand when we lived in Ft Lauderdale and in our home up north
never had an issue with it
wife never felt that the side-by-side was a style she wanted....she does like the freezer on the bottom
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My Kenmore Elite side by side (made by Whirlpool) is about 20 years old now but it hasn't been problem free. At about five years it stopped cooling. I looked at it and the start relay failed, about $20 for a new one and it was good to go. Then a few years later it was cooling but the divider between the freezer and fridge was so hot you couldn't touch it (over 100 degrees). The cooling fan failed. Whirlpool went to an electronic Panasonic fan ($110) from the old metal $17 fan that last forever. Replaced it with the old style fan and they still had a second set of mounting hole in the fridge for the old style fan! Then the ice maker failed. Took it apart and a copper trace on the circuit board was vaporized! I soldered a jumper copper wire in and it worked fine for the last 10 years. I had the water at the door stop working, it turned out to be the line iced up. I defrosted it twice and not sure why but it has never iced up again. It has a removable ice bin in the door, the plastic catches are worn so you can't get ice out the door anymore but it wasn't worth it to pay the price they wanted for a new bin(way over $100) so I just open the door for ice. The door handle is plastic and it broke where it attaches to the bottom of the door. I used aluminum and epoxy and that it worked until the top also broke a few years later so I fixed that. The plastic handle is now discolored due to age but it works. I also had an issue with the nozzle to the water in the door, the plastic is brittle and it snapped about an inch off. Now you need to be a little more careful to make sure the glass is all the way under before you fill the glass. Other than that it has been fine!