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Originally Posted by cordenny
Our LG french door refrigerator is only 7 years old and needs a new compressor that will cost $1,100 to fix. Needless to say, we will be shopping for a new one. The repairman told us to look at a side by side because they don't break as often.
Would appreciate any advise and experience with a particular brand. Thank you.
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A few years back, I bought some top of the line Electrolux appliances for my home up north. Right from the beginning I had nothing but problems with them. Luckily, the store I bought them from stood behind them. After about a year I was so frustrated with these appliances I asked the store owner if he could give me any amount of credit towards other appliances. I really didn’t care how much, I just wanted to get rid of the appliances I had. He told me to hold onto the ones I had, he would continue to fix them at no cost and the problems would finally go away and they did. The reason he did not want to swap them out and as the store owner he hated to admit this, is that all the appliances made today are basically junk. He said you are lucky to get ten years out of them. He said if you want to place blame it is not with the manufacturer’s but with the government. In order to meet the EPA’s requirements for energy efficiency the manufacturer’s had to drastically reduce the size of the motors and other components to meet these requirements. The twenty pound motor that use to be in your parents refrigerator and lasted 25 years is now five pounds and so on and so forth. The result is these units are not built to last they are built for efficiency only and you can plan on replacing them far more often.