Maytag sux the cokzor

[SkinBasket]

We decide a refridgerator is something you keep for a couple decades so we spend 2G on a fucking fridge. Maytag decides to use a chinese high voltage board that apparently includes two 5 cent capacitors prone to failure after 6-24 months. When the board fails, the lights on the ice dispensor panel blink wildly, but more importantly the goddamn ice dispensor door opens and snaps shut every 10 seconds and can be heard from anywhere in the house while it attempts to burn out it's own motor. Oh, and the compressor shuts down. I get to spend $350 for a new board.

There will be blood. Well at least an attempt to get them to pay my bill. Lesson learned: Fuck Maytag.

[hoosier]

Re: Maytag sux the cokzor

We decide a refridgerator is something you keep for a couple decades so we spend 2G on a fucking fridge. Maytag decides to use a chinese high voltage board that apparently includes two 5 cent capacitors prone to failure after 6-24 months. When the board fails, the lights on the ice dispensor panel blink wildly, but more importantly the goddamn ice dispensor door opens and snaps shut every 10 seconds and can be heard from anywhere in the house while it attempts to burn out it's own motor. Oh, and the compressor shuts down. I get to spend $350 for a new board.

There will be blood. Well at least an attempt to get them to pay my bill. Lesson learned: Fuck Maytag.

I suggest you call Maytag's repair hotline. I hear they will send a repairman over to fix the problem within an hour.

[SkinBasket]

Yeah. I tried that. They could send someone in the afternoon, but she couldn't tell me if he would have the board or not. And they wanted a $70 "diagnostic fee" to tell me what was wrong after I told them what was wrong.

Sears A&E repair sucks the cockzors just as hard as Maytag. Ah, well. I'll fill out the complaint form and see if they'll own up to their shitty product or not.

[hoosier]

I take it the fridge is no longer under warrantee? Do you have renters/homeowners insurance? Assuming you do, my best advice is, load it on a dolly and walk it up to the tippy top of a municiple parking ramp....

[GBRulz]

My fridge is about the only thing I've ever purchased an extended warranty on. Mine was pretty pricey as well, around $2300. Well, in year three my ice box went out. Whole thing had to be replaced. Needless to say, the warranty paid for itself.

If you have Sears come out though, I know they used to take their "trip fee" and apply it to whatever work you needed done. If they do that anymore, I'm not sure, this was like 3 years ago when my dryer needed repair. I think you said you called the Maytag guy though.

[GoPackGo]

Ever heard of Consumer Reports?

[SkinBasket]

If you have Sears come out though, I know they used to take their "trip fee" and apply it to whatever work you needed done. If they do that anymore, I'm not sure, this was like 3 years ago when my dryer needed repair. I think you said you called the Maytag guy though.

Sears is the Maytag guy now and they suck chicken tits. I just called some old fucker who would actually tell me that he had the goddamn part. A fucking $180 chinese circuit board as complex as a calculator. Installed for $330. If the compressor was still working I would have just ordered the board and put it in myself. Running up and down the stairs to the basement fridge to get the kids milk and food 8 times a day for a week wasn't going to happen.

[SkinBasket]

Ever heard of Consumer Reports?

Consumer Reports is so 1997.

[mraynrand]

compressor was still working I would have just ordered the board and put it in myself. Running up and down the stairs to the basement fridge to get the kids milk and food 8 times a day for a week wasn't going to happen.

All that running could have restored your lean, sexy girlish figure.

But seriously folks, as long as we're on the fridge story, who has had luck selecting a 21-25 cu. ft. fridge. What did you get, from where, and how much?

[Deputy Nutz]

Thats what you get for spending 2k. I got a used fridge off a guy that was dying for 400.00. Nothing wrong with it after 5 years. I guess I don't have a fancy ice dispenser or a fridge that gives hand jobs, but thats just the way it goes.

[Patler]

Most all of our kitchen appliances are 20+ years old. All will soon need to be replaced during a planned remodel. I hear so many bad stories about all brands that it has me concerned.

Our Maytag washer died last Spring and we went through repair hell with A&E who contracts the Maytag repair service here. I booked repair through Maytag online, and A&E showed up. $250 dollars later, the washer still didn't work. I decided the best thing to do was to buy a new one from a local, well known, well-established appliance store. One who only sells appliances, and has his own repair people. I figured dealing in person with someone like that if there is a problem is more likely to get resolution than dealing on the phone with a nameless, faceless voice from who knows where.

[Deputy Nutz]

I am buying all my appliances on craigslist.com from now on.

[mraynrand]

I am buying all my appliances on craigslist.com from now on.

Craigslist.com is so 2006.

[Deputy Nutz]

I am buying all my appliances on craigslist.com from now on.

Craigslist.com is so 2006.

yes. I am not really beyond 1997.

[mraynrand]

I just bought a 'new' (New to me) honey of a fridge on craigslist (home remodel here I come)!