How old is your refrigerator?

Yipsy · 2025-01-24T16:21:11+00:00

Our refrigerator is nearing end of life. Fan emitting high pitch squeal that is very unpleasant and also a smell of presumably freon or some lubricant. I...

Spartan

The one currently in our kitchen is a Samsung that's almost 13 years old. I'm not impressed with it but it still works. The one that was in our kitchen is in our basement. I think it's a GE that's over 40 years old.

Yipsy

Par4QC

I appreciate your advice. The aeshetics of Hisense appeal to me. That is the best reason to buy anything. 🤨 I kind of want to buy one now because I don't want to know that the next fridge purchase will be my last.

KCee

Yipsy FWIW I bought a Hisense TV 3 years ago and I wouldn't say it's garbage, but it's been a bit disappointing and I wouldn't buy another. It's the only Hisense thing I own so sample of 1, but just my $.02

Par4QC

Yipsy Forgot to mention we also 'had to' have their cube fridges in every room.
Also garbage that ended in dumpsters(recycle).
Imagine how many that entailed when ALL Holiday Inns had to have the TVs & fridges!! 😲'twas a corporate doings.

Hoping everyone understands that those old fridges/freezers use a ton more energy than the newer.
But, probably why the new stuff shits the bed so fast.

Yipsy

propman

Was that sales/install person one of those who hates anything that isn't American? LG and Samsung are foreign companies. Maybe less of a commission on LG and Samsung?

I wanted to see what was said online as to the most reliable refrigerator brand.

propman

Yipsy don't have answers to your questions. Just found it refreshing not to be given the salesman bs.
Hisense tvs-have 2 of them. Somewhat new-no issues. Have no wishful thoughts of them lasting more than 4-5 yrs. Tvs are not made to last long no matter who the mfg is. Why spend a boatload of money on them?

Yipsy

KCee

Sorry your TV hasn't worked out. I've never liked mine purchased about 8 years ago. Glad to hear more opinions on Hisense. I own nothing from them and I probably won't after reading this little bit of info. I was never confident in their brand. Only knew they were much less expensive and rated highly enough and nice to look at. Sad thing about reviews they are all usually made when the product is new not years down the road.

Needs to be a site with reviews that only allows reviews years later. That's a site I would visit but it would be bought and paid for like any review site so useless in the end.

Yipsy

Par4QC

Less energy efficient equals better reliability?

KCee

Yipsy It's not a bad tv especially given the price, but honestly we have some TCL tvs that were super cheap and I was hoping the Hisense would be a lot better and it's not.

We had 2 Sharp tvs for many years that were awesome. The older one finally died and the Hisense replaced it, but my daughter still uses the other one although she's young and watches stuff on her phone more than on tv. I've read the Sharp tvs are not what they once were though so I bought the Hisense after doing some research.

Par4QC

Yipsy

It's the way the U.S. has been told to operate.
(ex.)...10 speed automatic transmissions vs. 3-4 speed auto.....tell me which lasts longer.

Not a lot produced today will be around in 10-15 years. But you'll still find plenty of old fridges in garages/basements from 2000, but not many from 2025.
Vehicles and many other items will be the same.
It's already that way. Pay attention dammit.😄

Typhoon

The garage fridge is from 2001. We put it down there a couple years ago when we remodeled the upstairs. Old school Whirlpool with a top freezer.

Yipsy

KCee

Do you feel you were misled by your research as in fake reviews kind of thing?

I've never purchased the same brand of TV for the living room. I guess I wasn't impressed with any of them.

KCee

Yipsy Do you feel you were misled by your research as in fake reviews kind of thing?

Yeah I am pretty careful about sorting through reviews as I know many can be false. Many times you can tell when there are a lot of great reviews, but the most recent reviews aren't very good. The Hisense had excellent reviews at multiple places.

Sometimes you just don't get the best version of a product. Many years ago my wife had a Nissan Maxima that was rated as a fantastic car. It was basically a lemon; good thing she leased it. I own a 9 year old BMW I bought used and (knock on wood) have never had an issue with it. Best most reliable car I have ever owned and we've had Toyota, Honda, Subaru. Go figure.

Yipsy

Par4QC

What you mentioned is one of the reasons I decided to replace my old air conditioning system with just a single-stage unit. I liked the theory part of two-stage systems but also understood that in practice it meant more repairs and shorter lifespan while saving each month.

Yipsy

propman

I've never owned a TV that lasted only 4-5 years. An LCD panel should go for decades. I've purchased several and all of them are still in operation. The oldest goes back to 2016. It used to frustrate me I wouldn't be able to justify a new TV purchse for the next 15-20 years because I hate the one I have now. Looking for an excuse to replace but won't until it fails. I wish it'd failed after 4-5 years.

propman

Yipsy our tvs get a lot of use. I'll be happy if they last more than 5 yrs and my wallet won't be unhappy either.

Yipsy

propman

We leave the living room TV on 24/7 most days of the week. I still can't get it to fail.

jsippy73

KCee
Replacement ice makers are cheap on ebay and exactly the same as OEM.

Typhoon

jsippy73 We reeled this one back in…. Went from the fridge to TV’s to AC units🙄🙄

Yipsy

Typhoon

Nobody has too much to say about fridges.

Typhoon

Yipsy Nobody has too much to say about fridges.

Well like an old SNL skit… “ You can’t kill a Norge.”

sdandrea1

Move it into hospice. It might hang on longer.

I got 10 years out of my last Samsung, although I had to replace the ice maker.

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