They can do that. The solution appears to be to raise your refrigerator temperature by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit. It can't be allowed to get too close to freezing.
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When I first met my wife her mom was still using an International.
Two stores that sold them, and a repair man, told us not to buy a Samsung because parts are difficult to find. All the refrigerators are junk now a days, but at least you can get parts for the "American" brands. At least this is my take on it.
In the meanwhile, our broken Maytag has completely healed; gradually over a few hours. My wife doesn't care; she wants a new one. We only lost our food because it broke while we were on vacation. Since that won't happen for another year; I'd like to play it out. We'll see.
Here's a resource that helps understand "who makes what" these days...
http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/make.shtml
Quite often when selling a home, there is an expectation that major appliances stay with the house.
LG & Samsung seem to be hard to get parts for and less reliable, the fridges on the property are all Whirlpool or rebranded Whirlpool, (Kirkland Signature) all have done well, since Hiaer bought GE Appliances, won't touch them, not heard any good about Frigidaire either, but had a 1965 Frigidaire Flair electric range that was great only reason gave it to the Habitat ReStore & it sold that day was got a smooth top Range, The sad thing is that nothing is going to last like appliances have in the past, 5 years seems to be the new normal, adding to the waste stream. :(
We had a Maytag 'go bad', only backwards; couldn't keep the fridge from freezing everything. A good thaw fixed it. That was about 10 years ago, then last year it just started getting warmer and warmer. Everything about the workings was in order, everything was clean, all fans working. I'm assuming it lost it's refrigerant...
Speaking of fans, had a Kenmore lose the compressor at about 6 years old, problem was the coil fan, dust just got worked into the fan motor and it kept slowing down until it just quit spinning and the compressor overheated.
Right now we have a big LG sbs, about 6 years old now, no problems.
There's a shop a few miles from me that buys and sells used appliances, he has an old Frigidare with the compressor and coils on TOP, it's where he keeps the free soda pop for customers :)
What caused the seals to rot in only 9 years?
Yup. Seems like most of time when people say "the icemaker broke", what they really mean is "the ice dispenser broke". My GE makes ice fine, whether it will deliver it to the port in the door is about 50/50. Unless I want crushed ice (which oddly enough seems to work better than whole-cube), I'll usually just open the door and grab a fistful out of the bin.
We have a Samsung and the icemaker was a problem as well. It would freeze up at the back where the water comes in. I defrosted it several times before calling for repair. The fella explained that particular icemaker had a design flaw. The replacement and its installation procedure incorporated a fix for the flaw. Other than occasional ice bridging, it's work fine since.
I will be following this thread since Sears has gone Bankrupt. They were were I bought all our big appliances. theirs were made by whirlpool/maytag/ammana