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Re: Recommend me a new washing machine
I like the thinking behind the ISE, might try and get a look at one of those.
Not sure I was very clear when I said ‘button’ I just mean some sort of mechanical latch on the door, on a lot of units you just appeared to yank the door open with brute force and it looked like an obvious fail point in a years time. 😉Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
So tempted to give this a try before I splash out on a new unit, just need to eat all the food in it and take a chance, worst case is I waste £5, best case is I save hundreds.
If anyone hasthe time to do some sort of detailed ‘how to’ Haynes manual style instructions it would be fantastic, and I even think there would be a market for DIY kits including the bits and instructions.
Considering the boards are going to cost £200+ if someone was offering the bits and a DIY guide for £25 they would clean up considering how many people just on here are having problems with Whirlpool. 8)Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
As another unhappy Whirlpool customer what I’m surprised about is that no enterprising engineers have stepped up to the plate and offered a repair service.
It seems the ‘Whirlpool people’ are happy to replace £300 pcb boards, but those with the technical know-how seem to able to repair the boards for under £25 worth of bits and probably a couple of hours labour.
I’ve tried my local yellow pages and none of the engineers seem interested but I can’t help thinking that theres a gold mine ready to be tapped by repairing Whirlpools for somewhere in the region of £150 all in, considering how many units are under the Whirlpool umbrella I’d expect the enterprising engineer that takes this up to be a busy chap.And I’m not even after any commission for the idea…. 😆
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
n100tty wrote:…. but will someone PLEASE PLEASE put an end to my Whirlpool misery 😕 .
There is no end to the misery, you can only delay it for a short while…… :rolls:
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
I’ve been living with the clicking…and the water/ice not working but at the weekend the pile of badly made poop that is the Whirlpool flashed up a new warning. 🙁
Every once in a while it is flashing ‘CF’ on the control panel, the handbook just says call the Department licenced to print money more commonly refered to as the the Service department. 😉
So…is it going to blow up soon, stop being cold, or is it just something else that I can live with until I replace it with some Korean equally as crappy cold box in the near future? :rolls:Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
kwatt wrote:I can’t help but think however that you are perhaps being a little unreasonable here though. I mean, if I crash my car then I’m not liable to find an insurer that will pay for, let’s say, £3000 worth of damage for a policy that I pay £400 are they? So I have to ask, why do you think that the insurer should pay out any old amount?
Not sure if I’ve read that right but I think it’s not quite right. 😉
My insurance for a car worth £10k is £200 if I crash it I will be paid back £10k minus my £100 excess, so the insurance company pay out £9,900 after I’ved only paid them £200
Insurance works on the basis that most people don’t actually make a claim. 😉
There is a big difference between insurance and a warrenty though, I’m quite surprised the Whirlpool warrenty doesn’t have a clause in it saying the warrenty is null and void if food is placed in the unit. 😆Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Good luck ‘Another Victim’, great write up.
I had a close call with the small print on a D&G ‘warrenty’
They sent me a quote for a warrenty on my Whirlpool, it actually looked like not a bad deal, I think it was about £80 for a year but on reading the small print it stated that ‘American Style’ fridge/freezers weren’t actually covered! 😕
As this is what it was s’posed to cover I gave them a call and the call centre numpty that I got was a right nob!
I’d actually bought the cover and the small print was only issued after buying the policy so I sharply cancelled it and made a complaint to the call centre manager.
Obviously nothing came of this but I just know if I’d try to claim, which being a whirlpool was inevitable they would have run a mile from paying out. :rolls:Currently living without an ice/water dispenser and a clicking noise until I redo my kitchen then it’s gamble time on which manufacturer to go with, reading the stories on here they all have issues unless you pay thousands and even then it’s not a 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} certainty of quality. 😯
Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
DanH wrote:In fact just found it at appliance city for £899 delivered… Has anyone used them before?
I bought my Whirlpool from them back when they were Bunny Domestic Appliances, had no issues with them, but I was a ‘real’ inshop customer not ‘online’ but they delivered when they said they would and got the unit in the house with no problems. 😀
They was a small issue with the machine on inspection but this was sorted out with no issues and I can’t really blame the retailer for selling me something that in 5 years has come to the end of it’s useful life. :rolls:Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
Already done the TV homework and a nice new Panasonic will soon be hanging from the wall. 😀
Funnily enough the advice on the TV front was avoid Samsung at all cost… 😆Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
This just keeps getting better and better…..
Last night I popped into a local retailer who sells a wide range of units, and he had the Maytag in question in stock.
It quite clearly was the Whirlpool with a different badge, even though the front panel has now been redesigned.
The sales guy seemed to know his stuff and was happy to explain about all the badge enginerring and manufacture/assembly arrangements the companies had to get round various ‘made in xxxx’ issues.
The ones he pointed me to were an LG (although I didn’t want the ice/water bit) but this was by far the best ergonomicly designed unit, and surprise surprise the Samsung unit I originally quoted back in post number 1. 😆
He did have one nice ‘American’ unit I think it was a ZigZag or something like that but to be honest it just looked a little ‘industrial’
So thanks for all the assistance but sod it….the Whirlpool still freezes so I’m spending the money on a new big tele and going to look into the issue again when I look at redesigning my kitchen in a year or so, or when the Whirlpool goes up in a cloud of smoke. 😳Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
Martin wrote: I’m not sure they make one to your requirements of limited size and price platform. So perhaps you’d best look at other more realistic alternatives? 🙂
A few posts earlier I found a local retailer selling these
Maytag MC2028HXKSI
for under £900 with a 5 year warrenty, I don’t want the ice/water bit but if the price/quality equation balanced I’d live with it. As usual the picture on their website was a small front view, a little more googling found some closer pictures and these show that most of the plastics ‘seem’ identical to the whirlpool items, the font and buttons on the front panel are the same, it just looks to the untrained eye like a badge engineering job, I’m more than happy to concede that the internals are different but to be honest it ‘looks’ like a Whirlpool and as they are the parent company and I’d rather not give them anymore money, this would make me steer clear. 🙁Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
So does that mean Whirlpool are now as good as Maytag, or Maytag are now as bad as Whirlpool…. 😯
Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
Just wish it didn’t have the water/ice bit, but looking at a few more detailed pictures I’d be very surprised if it isn’t made in the same factory as the Whirlpool, the controls on the front panel are identical. :rolls:
Re: Recommend me an American Style Fridge/freezer
Nottinghamshire.
Off on a slight tangent just spotted this….
Maytag MC2028HXKSI
At the place I got my Whirlpool from with a 5 year parts and labour warrenty for under £900 any good or am I going to be making the most of that warrenty? :rolls:
