My 3.5 year old refrigerator died last week. My 6 year old water heater died the week before.
We are going in the wrong direction adding Bluetooth,WiFi, AI to things that don’t need it. How about a simple fridge/freezer with a compressor and a couple of doors? Back to basics isn’t always a bad thing.
Appliances are like shitcoins on a fiat standard nowadays (trash losing value).
Same thing happened to me. I said the same thing but there is more to it. Both were under warranty. I fixed the water heater replacing the trash controller. Cheap components. Plumbers online complain about this.
The fridge was the compresser. I asked the repair guy about how common this was and why. He said very common. He said it's two things. Cheap components(fiat) and "efficiency" requirements. Climate change inspired legislation is requiring companies to prioritize energy use over reliability.
So, it's the state interfering with the market. The money and the manufacturing sides. It's both.
Unfortunately, my water heater was the tank itself leaking. The fridge had a closed loop refrigerant leak. Repair guy said $2k to repair the problem and he’d see me in a year or two for a new compressor. I asked 2 different repair guys what fridge they would recommend. Both had the same answer, “None of them”
Yeah, it sucks and fiat is the base issue and gets near zero attention outside of bitcoiners and Austrian econ folks.
