It's like living in the 1970's

[Gman]

Broken appliance....you would think there would be an app for that.

There is. My LG appliances have a speaker that you can hold a phone up to if you need customer service and it can communicate the issue codes back to the service agent.

I have an LG dishwasher, double oven range, and french door fridge. There was a recall for the freezer defroster that they took care of right after I got it. The icemaker quit last year and I was able to buy a replacement and install it myself. I'm no stranger to having to replace icemakers in freezers since I had to do it with my old freezer...twice.

The range and dishwasher have been trouble free.

[10x]

GE has really slipped in quality. Also banned from my house. Even the people at Lowes steered us away from GE.

[jerrymrc]

When we remodeled our Kitchen in 2004 I went looking for one of the last, good Jenn-air built in stoves circa 1986. I found one and it has been great so far. Once they sold out it went to junk.

[68Charger]

We have a delivery for tomorrow, mostly GE appliances... (ordered on 4th of July sale, same order would be like $1800 more now)
but Maytag washer/dryer... same models as we sold with our house in Colorado- we missed them.
I've heard horrible customer service stories about Samsung... even HD associate wouldn't suggest them... LG is at least attempting to look like they want to help with the app...
We had some Jenn-Air appliances in Colorado that were after they sold out... wound up having to replace them all within ~15 years, one at a time as they failed.
LG didn't have selections on some appliances that met with my wife's approval (dishwasher, for example)... GE had the best overall package- hopefully they last well enough
We're finishing up remodel on a guest house, so we're moving appliances from our house to there, and getting all new for our house.

Seems like someone could start an appliance company with real quality, and offer replacement parts that are better than OEM... but with so many people price is the bottom line.


that could be the name of the parts division- "Better than OEM"

This is an issue with the auto parts industry now, too... seems like everything is crap.

[colorider]

We had an LG fridge/freezer that crapped out after 2 years. Parts would just fall off the thing and finally the main board went out. Our LG range is horrible and about 5yrs old. Oven will not hold a temp. It's all over the place and adjusting it lasts about 2 uses before it's messed up again. Won't be buying any LG crap from now on.

[izzy]

I just made toast in the oven. Not sure if that counts as 70s or not.

[Gman]

I think that goes back before the '70s, like since there have been ovens. You could go the wire coat hanger route on a stove burner, like the Blues Brothers.

[00tec]

I just made toast in the oven. Not sure if that counts as 70s or not.

I turned on my oven for the 3rd time (in a year and a half) last night. My headlights wouldn't fit in the toaster oven.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Thanks for the info. We had a Samsung stove that didn't work out too well.

Yeah...stay away from Samsung for sure.

[BushMasterBoy]

I got Whirlpool everything. The dryer broke once. Guy came out to fix it under extended warranty. The light inside the dryer came loose and was shorting out the breaker. Last month the ice maker quit. I read on the webz that it can freeze where the water pours in. Took a hair dryer to it, works good now. I have had these appliances 11 years.