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Just talked to my dad

that Whirlpool dishwasher was replaced last year. This means it was 31 years old. OMG! And what's funny is I totally remember me and my grandma in her kitchen cleaning after lunch and the dishwasher was running and she hadn't had it very long at that point, and it was making a funny whining noise...I remember we looked at each other thinking it was gonna break.....and it would occasionally make that noise over the years..
 
It's a beast of a machine! I loooooove it. It's indeed very powerful and why it cleans so fast lol. I have no idea how much water it uses but I'm not worried ;-)

Mark -- very cool video. I've seen that before. Those old Whirlpools were awesome. I just watched another commercial for a 1986 Whirlpool with electronic controls. Pretty sweet (corny 80s commercial) lol

 
Mom?

"It's so quiet, I--oh, damn it, it says 'F7.'  What does that mean?"

 

I like how she deftly avoids knocking the glass over with the phone cord.

 

If Mom's dishwasher was that bad on the phone, she must have had a top-loading portable stainless-steel impellered Mobile Maid.  That dishwasher prevented conversation in the living room--although it performed beautifully.
 
@roto204

"... Listen to this!"

Whirlpool DW: Beeping randomly

"Well of course you hardly hear anything! Its my new Whirlpool dishwasher. Broken for the ten time this week!"
...
"Yes, its done!"
...
"Oh it cleaned great... Everything's completely smashed beyond recognition. Everyone just screamed.
And its so dreadful, we'll have to shout a little more"

...
"MUM?! Whats all that noise? Oh, its your dishwasher?"
...
"Yeah, I regret getting rid of ours too."

Commercial: "We're making your world a little crazier.... Whirlpool"
 
Washer 111,

That is many appliances today, but Dishwashers and dryers are Whirlpool USA's better points. For cooking ranges and ovens, It's GE, and for laundry washers, I would say right now Samsung.
 
mark,

well I will not buy another GE frige for sure. Our kids have a Whirlpool, and so far so good, but it is the small SxS with old fashioned non electronic control.
I know noting about Conquest and later refrigerators from Whirlpool as far as being better than GE.
What about the LG horizontal compressor?
What is wrong with Samsung washers? My sisters has outlasted my Bravos X. She has three kids. I am down to one.
 
I wouldn't take another Samsung appliance if it were given to me for free wrapped in gold. I just can't stand behind a company that proudly admits that their products are direct ripoffs of other companies, and doesn't care because by the time legal action could go through, they'll have made enough money to toss dollars to the court and be off on the next Whirlpool/GE/Apple/Google clone. The one appliance we have is our Samsung fridge, and it's been an awful experience, not because anything has actually malfunctioned, but because the design and build quality is just terrible. For a $1500 appliance, I expect much better, and had it been my choice it would have been a WP or even GE.

Also, the Bravos X/VMW Cabrio can't be compared to anything. It's not even a machine Whirlpool really focuses on. It's a side-thought they had from the agitator-DirectDrive successor after changing the drive system to a belt/splutch design (VMW), and they popped in a wash plate in place of the agitator, lowered the water level sensor parameters, and pushed it out in a basket down the Nile river hoping someone would mistake it for the real Oasis.
 
It's just from what I've read

on here and otherwise, Samsung would be my last choice of appliance brand. I like their phones though.

As far as fridges and ovens, knock on wood, but my WP sxs fridge and self cleaning oven and microwave are 12 yrs old this year. Nothing has ever been repaired on the oven or microwave, but the fridge had to have the ice maker replaced (which we did ourselves) about 6 or 7 years ago, and a capacitor went bad and had to have a repairman fix that.. And just this week, I've noticed the ice maker IS making ice, but it's making it so SLOWLY! The temp in the freezer is about 3 degrees and the fridge is 37 degrees..so I'm thinking the ice maker may need to be replaced AGAIN soon.
 
Samsung, and to a lesser degree, LG, to me, represent that silly, goofy, techno-cutesy Asian flair that I have dislike for.
It's because of THEM that my GE dishwasher and my Maytag washer/dryer have to play a silly tune now at the end of every cycle.
Yes, not to mention the cheesiness of their designs and their REPREHENSIBLE stance on repair parts in the industry. It's so bad, I've said it before, that retailers have had to take on the responsibility of stocking LG/Samsung replacement parts because the companies refuse. So if you have a 2-3yr old LG/SSg appliance, good freakin' luck. NO PARTS. They've all been redesigned.
 
Murando, Glomain, johnb.300,

Murando, they are all made south of the border anyway. Have you even bought an appliance yet? Our son is your age, and if he had to buy one, he'd be clueless.
He writes code all day and studies.
The Bravos X belt drive brochure said "high end laundry at an affordable price."
The splutch drive system is the "world washer" design from Mexico, not the Nile.
Glomain, several opinions, and cheap plastic parts are in all brands.
Have you been to the Warther museum in Dover? It's amazing. He had real talent.
My mom was from Midland Pa.
johnb., Kenmore had buzzers and beeps in the 70's. the only difference today is they are electronically generated by the micro processors.
 
I'm not talking about buzzes and beeps.
I'm talking about full-on tunes, that last multiples of seconds.

Also, ALL the ranges and fridges are not made in Mexico.
Half are, usually the low and mid price ones. But the other half are still made up here in the States.
 
Every part on our refrigerator that I could research with close ups of the label say Made in Korea. I'm sure LG is the same because without logos, LGs and SSs seem to be clones of one another anyway.

Also, not counting ones in the direct family that were purchased under my influence and advice, I've personally bought nine. Rebuilt and restored three. Had so many appliances over my lifetime, parted out across the floor and then reassembled that are still running to this day, that I can't count them. And have been scouring every document, schematic, diagram, and blueprint I could find on appliances and many other machines since I began learning to read. I don't claim to be an expert, but age plays no determination in how much knowledge or experience a person can have on a particular subject. Pleased to meet ya.
 
 
<blockquote>So if you have a 2-3yr old LG/SSg appliance, good freakin' luck. NO PARTS. They've all been redesigned.</blockquote> The Feb-2011 (4 yrs 11 mos) Samsung frontloader I refurbed three weeks ago, all the needed parts (and plenty not-needed items) were immediately available from multiple online sources except a non-crucial anti-backflow flapper valve on the pump outlet port.

And yes, I'm aware of the tragedy that a 5-years-old machine needed substantial repairs and I'm not defending Samsung on that point ... the cause of failure was bad usage habits of the owners.  The point is that I had no trouble locating parts.
 
Well THAT's awesome DADoES!
Really. No sarcasm.
I've heard very different stories from relatives, AND staff members at Best Buy and Home Depot.
Sounds like you got lucky.
 
johnb, Pleased as well mutually meeting.

Yes LG is in Korea, but my sister LG T.O.L. range is from Mexico.
Lucky Goldstar. Began in the USA in K Mart and other discount stores in the late 70's selling small TV's and microwave ovens.
Many FSP parts are used across different brands today.
A Whirlpool dishwasher may use the same wax motor as an LG, or Samsung. if they still even use them. They were know to overheat and fail, causing diverter ball to stick so only one rack would wash when you selected both, or visa versa.
 

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