I’m gonna. Amp out here to see if there’s a good fridge maker out there still.
Samsung, whirlpool, lg, and ge all seem to be crossed off.
Bosch & kitchenaid are the two “affordable” I still trust.
Thermador, sub-zero & wolf are the not-affordable that I’ll always trust.
Sub-Zero and Wolf are the same company. Thermador and Bosch are owned by the same parent company.
KitchenAid got bought out by Whirlpool, so its trustworthiness is probably on the decline.
Anecdote time:
When I bought my house a decade and a half ago, I bought a brand-new Whirlpool dishwasher and Samsung washer and dryer pair. All three failed within a decade. (The Samsung washer in particular was egregious: when I took it apart every piece of it was pristine except for the “spider arm,” which was corroded as fuck because they obviously designed it to do so by deliberately making it out of a different metal than everything else.)
I replaced each of them with used Bosch appliances that I got for cheap (or in one case, free), and they’re all still going strong.
My expensive Samsung washer/dryer didn’t even last 6 years. Trying my luck with LG currently. Bought from Costco because they have good warranties
Supposedly the current generation of LG fridges are good. The appliance repair folks have said repair rates on those are very low. Remains to be seen if that holds long term.
I rolled the dice. Between the lawsuits they lost over the previous generation and warranty substantially longer than others on the market, along with nabbing one on sale for stupid cheap, I figured it was worth the shot.
So far so good anyway.
