Posted on 02/10/2024 8:49:05 AM PST by nuconvert
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According the notice, Electrolux Group—the parent company of Frigidaire—is recalling about 383,240 of their side-by-side fridges with slim ice buckets. The reason? There is an ice bucket assembly component that can easily break and as a result, cause either a choking or laceration hazard through the pieces being dispensed out of the ice bucket.
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As the recall notes, the models included were manufactured between 2015 and 2019 and were sold at nationwide retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot and more. Dates that the items in question were sold fall between November 2015 and September 2019 and between the price range of $1,400 and $2,400.
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Is your refridgerator running?
They will fix it for free, but you pay for shipping. /s
avoid french door fridges- they suck- ours isnt even a year old and the inside seal is already ripping because folks sometimes use the left door to open first, and it stresses the flap seal of the second door - wish we hadn’t bought this fridge-
funny i looked at that and smelt it at the same time
Why Yes it is, it’s chasing after prince Albert
I knew this woman that was so frigid every time she spread her legs a little light bulb cam on
I had a Roper refrigerator that I bought in ‘78. I did one service call for it in about ‘94 and it was still running when I sold my KC house in 2013 and left it — 35 years of service.
I bought a house with a top of the line LG refrigerator. The compressor had been warrantied for 7 years. At 7 years and 2 months, it died dead.
Bought another house with an LG. 7 years old, it died as well.
Bought a cheap Frigidaire — I expect it to go in little time as well but it is US made.
; )
Do you have Prince Edward in a can?
Had not heard about that problem with French Doors.
I saw the headline and thought this was going to be about the crappy LG compressors. I don’t know if Frigidaire uses them or not.
Reminds me that my almost 70 year old Frigidaire needs defrosting.
What brand? We got an LG two months ago, but we almost always open the right side door, even if we then open the right. Kinda used to it because our old fridge was a side-by-side with the freezer on the left. Damn, the freezer’s huge, could hide a body in there...
Similar story with an old GE fridge. It came with our house that we bought in 1983 and it might have been 15 years old at the time because it appeared there was a mid-60s kitchen remodel of the 1952 house. We redid the kitchen around 2012 and the old fridge was still running fine. So it ran for over 44 years with zero repairs. That was really astonishing.
In fact, it was that old fridge that triggered our kitchen remodel. It was a non-standard size and short, maybe forehead high and a bit narrower than modern fridges. The carpenters made site-built cabinets in those days, so a new fridge would not fit the old opening. I started thinking about replacing a couple of cabinets to get the new fridge to fit, but that led to ripping out the cabinet next to the stove (a GE 1960s “avocado” color electric range with a couple of failed burners that were getting very hard to replace) so that led to a new stove. Of course, the old over-stove microwave no longer fit, so I planned to rip out all the cabinets on one side of the kitchen. Next thing I knew, we were down to studs.
Mom passed away around then and the inheritance from Mom & Dad paid for most of our now-total kitchen remodel. It’s a nice memorial to Mom & Dad in a way.
The auger in the ice bucket self-destructs and the chunks come out via the dispenser. Don’t ask me how I know. PoS.
I didn’t know people still bought those old-fashioned side by side refrigerators. French door with freezer at bottom is way more practical. Especially for left over pizza in its box.
We have one exactly like that in my father’s house. It was used as a cabinet for papers and glassware.
Woody Allen?
Here are three Commandments, for homeowners, learned from experience:
1. Thou shalt not buy any appliance from Home Depot.
2. Thou shalt not buy anything guaranteed by Asurion.
3. Thou shalt not buy any kitchen appliance made by Samsung.
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