A little refrigerator rant

[TinkerTanker]

Samsungs are nothing but trouble. We bought one of those Hitachi ice makers they have at Sonic so we could have good ice whenever we wanted. It was broken, needed a new float and a good cleaning. So far we've had it 6 years and no problems. Still have ice in the freezer, but the only time it gets used is when I think my coffee is too hot to drink.

 

[BobbyV]

Our Samsung was as much of a piece of junk as everyone else's. We replaced it about a year or so ago and I didn't even bother hooking up the water to the ice maker in the new one. We've been using a counter top nugget ice maker for like 5 years or longer.

 

[Gadsden]

We got a new Whirlpool about two years ago and the ice maker works great. I can empty the hopper and it starts making new ice almost immediately. I haven't watched to see how long it takes to refill after I empty it, but I think it's about 24 hours.

 

[turkeyrun]

We only have Whirlpool, Maytag, or Frigidaire appliances.

Samsung parts are are near unobtanium.

Bought all new appliances in 2019. Ice maker works great. Fills the bin every 24 hours. I dump it into Styrofoam ice chest and use that ice all day.

Bought one of the counter top models for the RV. It makes a good quantity of ice, but it is soft and melts quickly.
We have been happy with it.

 

[2buckets]

For the last couple of years until I retired in July, we maintained a house here and one in Arizona where I was working. We bought a new Frigidaire for the Oklahoma house and the ice maker couldn’t keep up with the use from two people. We brought in the table top ice maker out of the rv in order to have enough ice.
The Arizona house had a fairly new LG and it always had plenty of ice on hand. The older LG now sits in our Oklahoma kitchen and the Frigidaire was put on the back patio as a backup/beer fridge.
I don’t think I will purchase another Frigidaire product after that

 

[BUDMAN-BILL]

Dang if you do and dang if you don’t.

 

[n423]

Our Whirlpool sxs fridge is 10 yrs old and ice maker works great.. When it was 1 yr old ice maker was really slow, repairman drilled out plastic inlet valve and works great.

 

[kirk1978]

So my wife talked me into buying a new refrigerator, side by side, stainless steel what ever. Nothing wrong with out 13 year old one, I guess it was a new color thing. Oh well. So we have this new whirlpool fridge delivered, didn’t take me 15 min to install. First of all, manual said to let run for 24 hours before putting anything into it, ok not a problem. 24 hours go buy and I move groceries from old to new. 24 hours later (48 hours total) this thing hasn’t dropped any ice. Well I checked the manual and I said it’s normal. Wtf 48 hours later?? So flash forward 2 months, this thing only drops ice every two and a half hours, 8 cudes total. So I called in on warranty, out came a guy to look at it. After ten minutes of him looking at my machine he told me all looked good. Asked him about dropping a tray of ice every 2.5 hours and he said yup, its normal. He then tells me that ALL refrigerator companies turn down the time and the ice maker inside the fridge is only there for a convenient! He then said it’s away for them to make me buy a new under the counter ice maker. Lol, no *** for the wife for 6 months

"no *** for the wife for 6 months" You sir are the man we all want to become!!

 

[joegrizzy]

i hear nothing but problems from anyone i know who has bought a new anything. i rock old appliances and they seem to keep churning.
my reasoning is, if this thing lasted 20, 30, in some cases (like muh upright freezer i got from a user here for free) 50 or 60 years, i would *bet* it's gonna last me at least 5 or 10 more. and that's all people get out of new ones, so.

 

[kirk1978]

Ive heard horror stories about Samsung, we purchased one 11 years ago and have had no issues.