On Feb 23, 2:12*pm, wrote:
We need to purchase a new side by side fridge. *Five yr old Frigidaire
needs $600 compressor (60% of what we paid for it). *Did a lot of
internet review searching and was suprised to see that the trend was
that they all got average ratings (3 out of 5 stars in most cases
where there were actually a lot of consumer reviews). *Are there any
repairmen out their with an opinon?

I'm not a repairman, but I'll relate a comment made to me by a
repairman a few months ago. He was changing a controller board in my 1
year old GE side by side - wouldn't hold temperature, kept swinging up
and down. Asked him what kind of fridge he had. Said he bought one of
the last GE models (about 7 or 8 years old) to be controlled the old-
fashioned electro-mechanical way, you know, thermostats and relays,
rather than a computer controller board. His opinion, nothing built
since then has been any good.

Jerry