On 14 Nov 2003 19:07:00 GMT, (Charles A.
Sherwood) wrote:

Every single Maytag appliance I own has failed at least once in 3
years.

I have a 15 year old maytag washer. Has worked perfect for all those
years. maybe they don't make em like they use to!

chuck

I have a 30+ year old Kenmore (inglis) drier that has had the drum
rollers replaced twice, and the belt once.
Untill 3 years ago we had the matching washer. Motor was replaced
once, and control head 3 times in 30 years.
The replacement (same brand) had the motor, transmission, and control
replaced within the first 3 months, then I found the REAL problem - a
bad switch.
We recently replaced the 40+ year old Frigidaire range. Until the oven
element burned out and arc-welded itself to the oven liner, all that
had been replaced was a couple wirers and one element control. The
matching refrigerator was retired 5 years ago when it started freezing
up (auto defrost went on the blink)
The 20 year old Quazar microwave had the "antenna" replaced uder
warranty at about 6 months when it started arcing - and has been
troublefree ever since.
The 30 year old gas furnace got replaced with a new medium efficiency
unit this fall. The blower motor had been replaced about 10 years ago
- and I replaced the furnace because with the cost of energy going up
it made sense to do so - and to do it on MY timetable, rather than
Murphy's. When they took it out they said there was nothing wrong with
it - it was just old. The central air is still there - never had a
moments trouble other than the thermostat.
The Beam central vac (15 years old) got a new set of brushes in the
Lamb motor last spring. A lot of the new ones do not have replaceable
brushes.

Only GOOD thing I can say for some of the new stuff is it is more
power efficient - but often that is because it is underpowered - and
therefore thrashes itself to death just "doing its job".