โApr-18-2018 06:35 PM
โMay-03-2018 07:12 AM
JKJavelin wrote:
I don't want to jinx myself, but our Maytag washer will be 39 years old this August and all I've done to it is replace one belt (about 30 years ago) and some little rubber hose piece (about 20 years ago) with 4 kids, two of them living here for quite a while longer than normal. In the meantime we're on our 3rd stove, and 3rd dishwasher (but 2 of those POS's were Maytags). Our Kenmore dryer is only a few years newer than the washer.
โMay-01-2018 06:11 AM
Expyinflight wrote:
Reading all of this discussion about the poorly made appliances today, with myriad problems and short life span. All doomed to be replaced within a couple of years if you are lucky. Seems to be across the board...GE, Samsung, Maytag, LG, and others.
But what really puzzles me is....so many people are now demanding these same residential appliances in their RV.
โMay-01-2018 05:28 AM
drsteve wrote:Expyinflight wrote:
Reading all of this discussion about the poorly made appliances today, with myriad problems and short life span. All doomed to be replaced within a couple of years if you are lucky. Seems to be across the board...GE, Samsung, Maytag, LG, and others.
But what really puzzles me is....so many people are now demanding these same residential appliances in their RV.
It's due to the performance shortcomings of absorption fridges, not reliability.
โApr-24-2018 09:21 AM
Expyinflight wrote:
Reading all of this discussion about the poorly made appliances today, with myriad problems and short life span. All doomed to be replaced within a couple of years if you are lucky. Seems to be across the board...GE, Samsung, Maytag, LG, and others.
But what really puzzles me is....so many people are now demanding these same residential appliances in their RV.
โApr-24-2018 08:26 AM
โApr-24-2018 05:30 AM
โApr-24-2018 04:55 AM
NJRVer wrote:soren wrote:
1995Brave, as a builder, I often spent tens of thousands a year on kitchen and laundry appliances. I found that Samsung and Bosch were issue free. Whirlpool and Maytag were typically OK, and LG was a hard NO!. I once scored a pile of new stainless steel over the stove LG microwaves, for less than half price. I put one in my house to see if they were acceptable. A week later I removed it, and took a van load of them back to the store. The manager apologized, and told me, "If I was working that day, I would of never allowed you to leave with that stack of junk. I never sell LG to anybody, if I can help it".
I went through 2 Samsung refrigerators in 4 years. Junk! Never own another one.
โApr-24-2018 04:13 AM
soren wrote:
1995Brave, as a builder, I often spent tens of thousands a year on kitchen and laundry appliances. I found that Samsung and Bosch were issue free. Whirlpool and Maytag were typically OK, and LG was a hard NO!. I once scored a pile of new stainless steel over the stove LG microwaves, for less than half price. I put one in my house to see if they were acceptable. A week later I removed it, and took a van load of them back to the store. The manager apologized, and told me, "If I was working that day, I would of never allowed you to leave with that stack of junk. I never sell LG to anybody, if I can help it".
โApr-24-2018 12:13 AM
โApr-23-2018 09:12 PM
time2roll wrote:ctilsie242 wrote:They actually drill the bolt that holds the slide mechanism. For service the bolt is accessed from inside the locked steel box.time2roll wrote:
Now if the local petty criminals would stop trying to drill out the coin boxes :M
I am curious if any of them succeeded? I've seen the local meth-heads do their best to get in to those coin boxes, but from what I've seen, the worst they do is hose up the unit for everyone else, and they have not been able to retrieve anything valuable.
I still am surprised that 30-40 year old technology still foils today's druggies.
It still is a pain, I bet, to have those units fixed.
Cost to repair is often close to $200 to do it myself, $400+ for actual service.
Removing the coin slide gives poor access to the coin tray. One used a stick and some bubble gum to snatch probably a dozen quarters. I think they usually give up when they realize the poor access and lack of actual money. Rarely is there more than $30 in each machine so big whoop... it is the repair that gets me and loss of use (inconvenience) for my tenants.
I believe I had one tenant that actually picked the service lock and was using the washer for free for his commercial detailing business. Ya get all kinds at some point on this journey.
โApr-23-2018 04:41 PM
โApr-23-2018 04:15 PM
ctilsie242 wrote:They actually drill the bolt that holds the slide mechanism. For service the bolt is accessed from inside the locked steel box.time2roll wrote:
Now if the local petty criminals would stop trying to drill out the coin boxes :M
I am curious if any of them succeeded? I've seen the local meth-heads do their best to get in to those coin boxes, but from what I've seen, the worst they do is hose up the unit for everyone else, and they have not been able to retrieve anything valuable.
I still am surprised that 30-40 year old technology still foils today's druggies.
It still is a pain, I bet, to have those units fixed.
โApr-23-2018 02:11 PM
โApr-23-2018 01:46 PM
time2roll wrote:
Now if the local petty criminals would stop trying to drill out the coin boxes :M