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henene4, here in the US Bosch has a minor market share in every category *except* dishwashers. In dishwashers, they have a big market share. My point is that the merger could be shot down over dishwashers alone, because the GE-Electrolux was shut down over cooking alone. And if anything the US...

henene4: Haier barely sold any major appliances in the US prior to buying GE. There was little concern over competition. By contrast Electrolux had a big presence in the US (as they have since they bought WCI in the 80s) and there was a lot of product overlap between them and GE. There wasn't...

I find it hard to believe the US would approve this merger. Their main concern will be concentration in the dishwasher market. Bosch and Whirlpool are probably the 2 biggest players. I don't think they will be too concerned about other appliance categories, since Bosch is a pretty small player...

Consumer Reports did an article a few years back about Linear compressors. Their survey data backs up the lawsuit/complaints about these fridges. 8% of LG French door fridges had compressor problems in the first 5 years, which was among the worst of all the brands in their survey. Kenmore French...

Even to this day, most North American built Electrolux products don't have PNC numbers. You generally only see them on products imported to the US from their their European, Asian, and Australian factories. But you're right, that's not an Electrolux tag. And yes, good eye, that is a Maytag tall...

Pretty much all mechanical parts have a finite lifespan. Electronic boards are not unique in that respect, and in fact their reliability potential is better than average since they have no moving parts. When's the last time you "changed the board" in your car? Electrolytic capacitor lifespan...

170 to 550F is the standard range in Bake mode for almost every American oven with electronic controls in recent years. Some models have a Proof mode which goes lower than that. Implementation of this varies by model. In the GE ovens I've had, proof mode doesn't actually engage the heating...

Claims about self clean killing control boards are way overhyped. Yes, it has happened - it's mainly an issue on ovens with front controls (so slide-ins and wall ovens) where the door is not sealing properly. Damaged gasket, faulty hinges, bent door liner, etc. Some models had endemic issues in...

The regulations that led to the SmartLoad dryers being discontinued were definitely related to fire safety - the dryer had to contain a fire inside for a certain amount of hours without spreading. After that went into effect, a lot of European-made compact vented dryers were discontinued as well...

It's a real shame. Their top loaders were simply designed, proven for reliability for many years in Australia and New Zealand, great at washing and great spin speeds. They had plans for becoming a much bigger player in the US laundry market. In 2006 they even built a factory in Clyde Ohio that...

Interesting, thanks for the insider info. Makes sense. Also makes sense that BSH loses money on fridges in North America. From what I can see now their freestanding fridges are pretty much all coming from China. Cheap labor, but high shipping costs and potentially tariffs to deal with. Tough...

"Fridges and DWs are just secondary in that equation - you don't buy Bosch appliances for the kitchen because their DWs are great. You buy the Bosch oven and cooktop, and because you have those, you get the DW and fridge aswell." From what I can tell, dishwashers are the main appliance Bosch is...

It isn't just that article, all the other sources I can find point to Whirlpool's Ohio plants being non-union. It's a bit surprising, since Ohio is pretty strong union territory generally, but that's what I'm reading. OSHA inspections of Clyde, Marion, and Findlay plants mark them all as...

Unionized appliance plants To be fair, a lot of the plants of the traditional US appliance brands are non-union these days as well, including Whirlpool - so hard to knock foreign brand plants for that. From an article back when the Newton Maytag plant closed...

Exposed heating coils are not necessarily considered "low grade" in the US. They enable heated drying, which is a desirable feature in the US that has not traditionally been an option on European dishwashers. One of the common complaints about Bosch et. al in the US has been poor drying of...

I would classify this machine as "Goodman-era" Amana washer. It is significantly redesigned under the hood from the Raytheon era machines, although cosmetically similar. Goodman was required to do this because they no longer owned the manufacturing plant or rights for the previous generation...

Also I will warn you, this is not an easy repair. If you're going to DIY this, expect it to be a major project. If you hire a tech, it is going to be many hours of labor and an expensive job. Most techs would recommend against this repair on a machine of this age, though it sounds like it's...

Don't worry, that's normal. The way Maytag parts lists work is that the listed series includes all the series after that, unless otherwise listed. So if your series number is not listed, you find the highest listed series number below it, which for this part is series 10. There have been Maytag...

This machine was built relatively shortly after Maytag bought Amana. But it is a model that was being made before the sale, so I'd expect any changes from before Maytag to be relatively small, and certainly the whole "Amanatag" revamp hadn't happened yet. I've linked the parts list for your...

Just came across this old footage on Youtube showing Whirlpool Powerclean dishwashers being made - both the KitchenAid stainless steel ones and the plastic tub ones. It's just a 4 minute clip from a TV show, so nothing in depth or anything, but still fun for me to watch and provoked a bit of...