Ease of servicing – is there a register of the good and bad.

[mrg9999]

I’m an ex-electronics designer / service engineer, and can turn my hand to most household appliances. It’s only when an appliance goes wrong that I inspect and find out that it’s either easy or hard to maintain. Whether it be brushes for a washing machine motor, or heating element in a tumble dryer.
Generally, I have found Bosch, Siemens, AEG, generally better laid out and easier to repair, but maybe cost more.
Has anyone catalogued and photographed the workings of a number of common appliances. It would be ever so helpful to purchase a machine, knowing how easy it was to service in the future.

Mr.G

[Martin]

Re: Ease of servicing – is there a register of the good and

mrg9999 wrote:Generally, I have found Bosch, Siemens, AEG, generally better laid out and easier to repair, but maybe cost more.

Your findings coincide with our opinions within the trade.

mrg9999 wrote:Has anyone catalogued and photographed the workings of a number of common appliances.

There is little or nothing to see inside machines for anyone to recognise, ponder over and much less, even care about!

mrg9999 wrote:It would be ever so helpful to purchase a machine, knowing how easy it was to service in the future.

Few if any machine these days need “servicing”. Most have little or nothing within that is repairable either but rather have to be replaced. Besides these days the public at large have no interest in knowing how fixable appliances are but rather how affordable they may be to buy or replace should they fail.

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