Frank Robinette wrote:

I have a refrigerator made by General motors handed down from my
grandfather, that still works fine and has had only 1 freon charge
that I know he ever gave it 60 yrs old beat that

Yup, but that was made back when quality was something real achieved by
design and manufacture, as opposed to something the marketing department
only pretends is real. Products made to that sort of standard today are
usually luxury goods.