Expensive fridges are dying young. Owners are suing, claiming fraud

[Dumpstick]

Required to take the doors off.

Only required if the fridge door fastens with a latch. Read the law.

When's the last time you saw a fridge that fastened with a latch?

All fridges now use magnetic closure, easy to push open from inside.

 

[Rooster1971]

i needed a frige 20 years ago,, online reviews said fridgedaire/ sears Kenmore,, still working good...i do scrap metal and until 2 years ago i scraped plenty of refridgerators,, most of the old ones 20-40 years old,still have some freon in the system,, but all the newer ones have nothing in the lines, no preasure at all,,they are using thinner steel lines ,and very little to paint the steel lines with ,so you get some rust and poof all the Freon leaks out..now the scrap yards wont take refrigerators at all ,because the lines are intact and too much insulation..a few months a go a neighbor had a refrigerator at the curb for big junk day ,and the city picked it up two guys put it into the back of a old style trash truck that has the clamshell type scoop and it just pushed it back into the truck intact lines and all,i wonder how long they will keep doing that,,,these lawsuit people need to add that some LG refrigerators have leaked out freon in the house,causing a major health hazard..

I’ll keep my old one, it’s over 20years old. I wouldn’t worry much about the Freon health issue. Most only hold around 6oz. I should be dead if so. Brazing a line that has a puff of refrigerant in it is something else. The phosgene gas it produces is something to experience.

 

[Rooster1971]

Only required if the fridge door fastens with a latch. Read the law.

When's the last time you saw a fridge that fastened with a latch?

All fridges now use magnetic closure, easy to push open from inside.

Maybe they changed it. It’s been 20 years atleast since I threw one out.

 

[okcBob]

I still have my whirlpool from the 90’s running in my garage. My LG in the kitchen is 5 yrs old & has had to be repaired last yr.

 

[XYZ]

Don’t remember the brand any longer but our last one died about 2 weeks after the extended warranty. I do remember my wife buying it and it being an expensive top end unit.

 

[turkeyrun]

Phosgene ain't no joke

 

[John6185]

My ex mother-in-law had an old Kelvinator refrigerator that I think she got in the early fifties and it was still chugging when she died at 96. The USA used to make great products.

 

[ramco]

Required to take the doors off.

Only latching doors need to be removed. Most fridges and freezers doors made today are held closed by magnets or air pressure when compressor is running.

 

[KOPBET]

Geez. I've got a freezer (still running) that my parents bought in 1980. Even that one doesn't have a latch. I don't think I've ever seen in person one with a latch come to think of it.

 

[RugersGR8]

I haven’t seen a latched frig door for many many moons but I do remember when that was the only type door that could be seen.