End of Whirlpool range saga

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Just got another form letter from Whirlpool offering an extended warranty of one year for $134 and if purchased would not take effect for two months.

Our Whirlpool range is history now replaced by a new Frigidaire range which my wife likes much better. For peace of mind she also bought an extended 5 year warranty beyond the normal one year warranty for $150. Whirlpool offers such a warranty for about $350.

We had checked the big box stores with similar offers but bought from a large local store that only sells appliances.

I had crossed my fingers that the new range would not trip circuit breakers but wife has used it to bake several times without seeing a problem.

Repairman had blamed bad breakers and I had to hire an electrician to check them out. Cost less to hire the electrician than the repairman to just come out.

Apparently you are lucky to get more than 5 years out of any new household appliance. Complex electronics and government insistence on better energy usage have created lemons. The cheap range supplied by our builder lasted over thirty five years, first replacement seven years and latest two years.

[Ralph Mowery]

I have come to think of appliances as throw away items. They are built as inexpensive as they can, just good enough to get by the warrenty period. I have started buying the lower end of the brand I want as they seem to last just as long as the higher ends.

In one way if you look at it, the appliances (unless you get the higher end ones) are about the same price as they were 50 or so years ago. If allowed for inflation they would be much more. The electronics are dirt cheap compaired to ones of 50 years ago.

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I saw someplace that while brand is important it is just as important to have good service backup. One of our sons had a dishwasher fail under warranty and could not get a repairman and the company did not send out a repairman and were thinking about complete replacement which would have been a PITA. He looked at the internet, figured out how to repair it himself and fixed it with a $2 part in a few minutes.

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Things do fail and you want backup. With today's electronics there are repairmen that do not know how to fix them. I heard of someone with an electric car that took it into the dealer where he bought it and they said they did not know how to fix it.

Whirlpool ranges are highly rated but as one salesman told me, you unfortunately got a lemon. I think that includes the repairman.

I have a highly rated car that in less than 3 years has had to be taken in three times for recall repairs.

[Ralph Mowery]

What can be so hard about a range ? Circuit board for the control, calrods or whatever for the heating elements. Maybe a wire somewhere was shorting out.

Sure sounds like a lemon repairman.

I had a heatpump that in the winter the outside coils froze up. Was not here but the wife was when he came. He replaced the motor on the outside (which was running fine when I was here) and said it was repaired. About a day later it was froze again. He sid somethin about a control board being bad and hard to get ( it was about 15 years old). I ran him off in a nice way and called another company to replace it with a whole new unit inside and outside.

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When he first came out he replace the hinges on the door that were bad and the calrod in the oven then blamed the circuit breakers. I had them checked and they were OK then he replaced the control board and still not OK. He may have messed up on not checking the temperature sensors. Whirlpool wanted us to use another tech but we would have to pay $95 for him to come out. That's when we said, screw it we're getting a new range.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Expensive, but probably the best solution. Ranges are just not all that complicated for all the problems you had.

My house came with GE appliances. Had a problem (leaking housing) with the garbage disposal in year two. First year would not have been too bad but second year you had to pay a service call. By the time I was done, would have been smarter to just yank it and put in a Kitchen Aid.

[Marilyn Manson]

I've got a spare InSinkErator out in the garage that I'll sell you for a good price. I love those units.

My daughter bought a house without a disposal, so I bought one for her. walmart.com, which does a lot 3rd party selling, had the best price at the time. My order was confirmed, I got a shipping notice, delivery date, etc. That day comes and goes so I call walmart. "Sorry, the seller says that they haven't had any in stock for a while and won't have any for a month or so." They couldn't explain why my order was confirmed and supposedly shipped, so they refunded my money.

I go looking again and order one on Amazon - the price had come down by then, so it was actually a few dollars cheaper than the walmart.com unit. It was delivered in 4 days.

The next day, the one from the walmart.com seller showed up on her porch. So much for "out of stock". I installed the one from Amazon and held on to the "original" one just in case they contacted me and wanted their money. That was back in January, so I'm pretty sure that it's mine now. ;-)

[Ed Pawlowski]

If this one craps out I'll contact you. KA and ISE are the best around. The one in my last house was still going after 25 years.

[Jim Joyce]

Surely the rednecks among us have come up with other uses for a disposal, like processing deer into sausage, for example. Anyone got any ideas?

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:05:03 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Manson posted for all of us to digest...

Don't dispose of it...