Modern Whirlpool
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phillymatt53
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Thanks Barry, The gentlman makes a lot of sense.
I'm not surprised at what's been going on, I've done research on other manufacturers products for decades.
Bottom line, - you build junk, you lose customers, and revenue.
Plain and simple.
reactor
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Combo, I never knew body weight prevented one from repairing appliances, lol. Much of what he says is speculative in nature, but he admits that.
You stated "most of what he said is not true at all." Filtering out what is speculation, please indicate the segments of the video that are "not true at all" and state why. That will make the video more meaningful to us.
You stated "most of what he said is not true at all." Filtering out what is speculation, please indicate the segments of the video that are "not true at all" and state why. That will make the video more meaningful to us.
This topic was brought up back in April when the video was first released, it's only 7 months old. Ben is a Platinum member of this forum under the name of mrstickball and everything he stated in this video is definitely accurate. In my opinion from being on other appliance forums, Whirlpool is on worse shape than what he stated in the video. Their quality has nosedived, just like their stock.
https://automaticwasher.org/threads/is-it-over-for-whirlpool.97887/#post-1228434
https://automaticwasher.org/threads/is-it-over-for-whirlpool.97887/#post-1228434
vacerator
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The Iowa plant was Maytag. It's been gone for some years and Whirlpool is still viable.
Whirlpool today is the largest manufacturers of dishwashers in this country the largest manufacturers of washers and dryers, they are huge force in refrigerators as well
They’re currently spending several hundred million dollars on the Clyde, Ohio plant taking it to the next level with a new updated washer designs, the company is hardly in bad shape. The quarterly profits have been steadily rising.
I believe the plant that was referenced in this video is the old Amana Iowa plant. There were some layoffs there. There were some layoffs at various places in whirlpool, the Iowa Amana plant is still running and building refrigerators every day.
To repair major appliances you need to be pretty flexible and while being heavy doesn’t totally preclude you from doing such if you’ve ever tried to replace an evaporator fan motor in the back of a side-by-side icemaker and fan motors and bottom freezer refrigerators I’m sorry this guy isn’t gonna be able to do it.. Last evening I had to replace a heating element in a stacked full-size Electrolux dryer I had to crawl through a hole that was 12 x 30“ wide to get behind the machine for example. You have to get way back underneath the dishwashers. You have to reach all the way to the back of the thing through a 4 inch opening to remove the heating element connectors and on, and on every day, you have to contort yourself into spaces to efficiently repair appliances.
I guess I just don’t like the sensationalistic style of these click bait videos. It’s not just him that’s true.
John L
They’re currently spending several hundred million dollars on the Clyde, Ohio plant taking it to the next level with a new updated washer designs, the company is hardly in bad shape. The quarterly profits have been steadily rising.
I believe the plant that was referenced in this video is the old Amana Iowa plant. There were some layoffs there. There were some layoffs at various places in whirlpool, the Iowa Amana plant is still running and building refrigerators every day.
To repair major appliances you need to be pretty flexible and while being heavy doesn’t totally preclude you from doing such if you’ve ever tried to replace an evaporator fan motor in the back of a side-by-side icemaker and fan motors and bottom freezer refrigerators I’m sorry this guy isn’t gonna be able to do it.. Last evening I had to replace a heating element in a stacked full-size Electrolux dryer I had to crawl through a hole that was 12 x 30“ wide to get behind the machine for example. You have to get way back underneath the dishwashers. You have to reach all the way to the back of the thing through a 4 inch opening to remove the heating element connectors and on, and on every day, you have to contort yourself into spaces to efficiently repair appliances.
I guess I just don’t like the sensationalistic style of these click bait videos. It’s not just him that’s true.
John L
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