I have to vent, sorry... LG (Life's not Good!)......Update and final resolve post #84

[Mike SC Hunter]

You are dating yourself. We stopped using the flat rock in the 70s.

Robert

How about the solar clothes dryer(clothes line)?

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My Hot Point dryer is still running after 25 years. I have replaced 3 belts, 2 heating elements. And just 2 weeks ago the pads that the front of the drum runs on. I made those out of a teflon cutting board.

 

[charlie sherrill]

In '80 or '81 the wife and I bought a manual operated commerical heavy-duty coin operated Maytag washer and dryer.
I knew the owner of coin operated laundry and he ordered the washer and dryer for us. When we made all the hook ups for power, hot and cold water, gas, & venting for the washer and dryer; I also by-passed the coin requirement feature.
Both the washer and dryer are still working. I've only had to replace the belts a couple of times and a switch or two.

Shoulda kept the coin feature and treated it like a piggy bank. Look how much you could have saved by now.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I don't want the computer **** on any of my appliances. Call me "Old School." It seems like that's the first thing that goes out. There's no such thing as customer service anymore. They either don't care or you get someone you can't understand on the other side of the world. I've had appliances that worked over 30 years, their replacements less than ten years.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Says a fella complaining about computers on a computer . . .

I don't want the computer **** on any of my appliances. Call me "Old School." It seems like that's the first thing that goes out. There's no such thing as customer service anymore. They either don't care or you get someone you can't understand on the other side of the world. I've had appliances that worked over 30 years, their replacements less than ten years.

 

[wheelgun28]

I think LG and Samsung make great TVs but not washers and dryers. The repair woman that fixed mine said they are poor in reliability and they are sometimes difficult to repair. She said sometimes you have to break one part just to get another part out. Their parts are not well made and they are expensive. Every appliance repair person has told me to get a cheap Whirlpool with the the three knobs and no digital junk.

I disagree with LG TVs.

Had one last less than four years and then it was dead.
When I looked into repairing it, it seems everyone's LG was having the same problems. They were all bad capacitors in the power supply. I looked at repairing it but it wasn't worth the aggravation.

I say no to Korean products!

Replaced it with a Sony and had no issues.

 

[Smithpride]

It is sad that this is how companies are conducting business these days. The giants of the industry seem to have lost their way somewhere down the line.
Hope the situation is resolved soon without a third party getting involved.
-SammyJoe

Hello! If they never broke, they would sell way fewer of them. They’ve designed and engineered them in ways that they break easily and are hard or expensive to repair, so that you’ll replace. It’s all part of the plan. Just like your vehicles.

 

[windypoint]

You tube can be your friend in fixing these kind of problems. Having said that, WHY are there so many problems that a person makes a video of fixing the equipment?

 

[gregintenn]

So did you get it fixed yet?

 

[Engineer1911]

Oldest Refrigerator still working -- Hitachi

I have a Hitachi 'Hi-Freeze R-2125' refrigerator in my garage. I'm the third owner. I think it was bought new about 1970 in Udorn Thailand at the BX. I bought it from my room mate who bought it from his room mate. It came home to Wisconsin in 1974 (basement), went to Minnesota in 1979 (basement) until 1989 when it went in the garage. It has sat in a Georgia garage since May 1989 keeping drinks, beer, and caulking compound cool.

I cleaned the outside twice, and repainted the metal. Why bother, the surface rust is back again. It gets defrosted twice a year, if I remember, and just keeps on running. It sat in the afternoon sun at 96°+ for 4 years on the back deck (year round). I just verified the name on the door, found a beer inside so cold my teeth almost froze.

I'm planning on calling Hitachi and see if they want it for a museum, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I certainly haven't followed any suggestions about setting it up in a correct location -- it just keeps keeping cold.

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

I never would have thought working on attack aircraft would translate either. However, skills are skills. If you can fix some pretty complicated stuff, the easier items will fall in line as long as you do not over analyze it.

1973 I attended Navy Basic Electronics school, they were still teaching vacuum tube circuits. We had electronic equipment the size of several refrigerators that had less computing power than a FIT watch.

 

[AJ]

1973 I attended Navy Basic Electronics school, they were still teaching vacuum tube circuits. We had electronic equipment the size of several refrigerators that had less computing power than a FIT watch.

I attended AE"A" School at NAS Jacksonville, Florida in 1969. 22 weeks of 8 hours a day being taught electronics from how to read a schematic to AC/DC theory to how to use test equipment. I can remember opening the adjust door to an MA-1 Compass Adapter in 1975 and seeing glowing tubes in it.

 

[4506517]

I feel your pain. We bought an LG washer dry set when we moved in.

Problems ever since.

Our Maytag dishwasher didn't even last a year.

 

[dsf]

One word.
Speed Queen.

Dated one. Will do your laundry, wash your dishes, wax the floor and toothbrush the grout in your bathtub. Several times over -

I miss that crazy broad …..

 

[Engineer1911]

Three years of aircraft maintenance On B-52 bombers, KC-135 refueling tankers, FB-111 bombers, and a year of F-4 fighters didn't do much for my resume, but paid for engineering school without and formal student loans. Several air force veteran recruiters were impressed with making E-5 staff sergeant in just over 2 years and being eligible to test for E-6 technical sergeant before I was discharged. I can really inspect stuff and fix little things.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

The more comlicated they make the plumbing

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NsTi_43g4[/ame]

 

[Munsterf18]

We've had good luck

If it makes you feel any better, after having the same continual bad luck with another brand, we have had nothing but great service out of our LG. Runs all the time with a family, and I'd buy another one tomorrow.
Hope you get it worked out. I think they are indestructible.

 

[swsig]

One word.
Speed Queen.

Dated one. Will do your laundry, wash your dishes, wax the floor and toothbrush the grout in your bathtub. Several times over -

I miss that crazy broad …..

Are you saying that there was meth head in her madness?

 

[Greyman50]

Wow, just before moving bought a Maytag Centennial used washer and dryer from local appliance guy I knew( gun guy). They are “ plain jane” versions with knobs.

 

[BigBill]

Many years ago an old gunsmith commented about recent "improvements" to a brand of pistol which will not be mentioned here.

They will sell it in a kit form we build it? Lol