[DAVES]

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.

I'm sure you will get many conflicting posts. We insist on buying refrigerators far more complex than they used to be. Would anyone buy a refrigerator that does not self defrost.
Ice and cooled water in the door? We have that, frankly it is great. It is also the item in your refrigerator most likely to need repair. There is also a matter of parts availability.
What you will get here, including mine, is opinion.
We have Westinghouse and it came with our prebuilt new Villages home. It is now 9 years old. There was an issue with a redesigned hose causing water leaks on the defrost cycle. Westinghouse repaired it at n/c after the warranty was up. Our ice maker failed. We were told by the repair guy that the NEW redesigned replacement part was the same as the original one that the redesigned on put in our refrigerator originally replaced. The old one worked, the new one that came with our refrigerator regularly fails.
Our previous home came with a CROWN STOVE. At 30 years old it was still working fine. Wife insisted we get rid of that old thing. Must have self cleaning oh and be pretty.
The guy who picked up our old stove laughed and said you do not want to do this.
We bought three new stoves to get through the next 10 years.
Aside my sister has a GE refrigerator old type with the motor on top. Date code on the motor says 1936. It is still running in her basement. A conversation piece? No it does not self defrost-it never did. Efficiency who knows?

[TCNY61]

Originally Posted by Neils

I think lg has a 10 yr compressor (parts only) warrenty. Might want to check on that

If it is like my LG dryer the warranty is useless. My dryer drum cracked at the weld. A drum cost $180 and I can get it out in 20 minutes. Call LG and there is a lifetime warranty on the drum but you need a tech to come out for $180 to look at it and see it is cracked and then pay them $250 to put the drum in to get the free replacement!

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.

GE, Whirlpool, Kitchenaid bottom freezer. Avoid Samsung and LG.

[TCNY61]

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

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!

[Garywt]

We generally go with Whirlpool but when we bought a larger fridge we got a Samsung side by side. Works fine and holds plenty. We felt that the Samsung had the least space taken by the ice maker. Under $1500.

[DaisyDE]

Samsung is pure trash!

[noslices1]

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.

If you look at Consumer Reports you will see that LG is the top rated unit in all categories and three of the French Door units were rated excellent.

[nick demis]

5 - 10 years is the average life span of todays appliances. If you want a longer lifespan, you need to get a commercial grade or a brand that is residential and built to commercial grade standards. Me, I prefer a brand that last 1/2 the life span of a commercial grade and costs 1/3 the price and refresh the look of my kitchen every few years.

[Stephen13]

I have an LG top bottom refrigerator then my old house. What a hunk of junk. First of all it's impossible to find anyone to repair them. Same thing happened to my friend and my parents...all LG. I don't see myself buying LG ever again.
I eventually found someone to repair the refrigerator. I told him I'm selling the house to live in a year. He said that's probably as long as the repair will last.
Good luck

[geobet]

Originally Posted by RICH1

I use my cordless leaf blower and clean under the fridge . It removes all the dirt/ dust off the evaporator and keeps everything running like a champ! Do it when your significant other is shopping! Sometimes they don't understand

My spouse used the leaf blower once and dust coated every surface in the kitchen. We just roll out our 8 1/2 yr old French door Maytag and vacuum the coils & floor. It runs like a charm.

[SERENITY52]

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.

We are very happy with our Kenmore 1 door refrigerator.

[Petersweeney]

Stay away from Samsung the ice maker doesn’t work after a year - check the internet for class action lawsuit

[Freehiker]

Internet searches shows they’re basically all garbage now. Class action lawsuits, endless complaints....

My GE was repaired 4x under warranty before they replaced it with a brand new one. That new one arrived and wouldn’t power up so they had to send another brand new one.

[jvl11]

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.

Just had the same problem. Might be under warranty. Call Show Time TV 352-307-0155. They are authorized by LG.I would call Lg first.

[TNLAKEPANDA]

They don’t make anything to last these days. Before moving here we had a Kenmore refrigerator that we purchased in 1995 and it was still running strong. Hated to leave it at our old home. I am sure the new owners will be using it for many more years!