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Is Frigidaire leaving the laundry room?
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Post# 1000349   7/15/2018 at 09:34 (2,110 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA)        

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Or are they scaling back to just laundry centers?

 

Click the link and behold the entire current Frigidaire washer line-up.  ONE top-loader from the company that pretty much dragged the rest of the industry kicking and screaming into the front-load business.

 

Even more interesting:  Search homedepot.com for front load washers and sort by low to high price.  What the suds?  Electrolux among the cheapest?  Isn't Electrolux the upscale brand with Frigidaire as the value leader?  What gives?



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Post# 1000361 , Reply# 1   7/15/2018 at 14:17 (2,110 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)        

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I was on their site the other day, and I also noticed the limited range of washers.

 

I'm not sure how sad I am at the thought. I have a very poor view of Frigidaire washers, based on experiences with WCI Frigidaires. I suppose the front load machines were better washers--not exactly a huge achievement, there!--but the name is tainted in my eyes by the experience with the WCI Frigidaire.

 

 


Post# 1000380 , Reply# 2   7/15/2018 at 19:53 (2,110 days old) by man114 (Buffalo)        

Hard to tell if they’re bailing entirely, redesigning or just doing laundry centers. I have an older gallery electric dryer I bought like 10 years ago that was used for a year then put back to use. It seems perfectly fine.

Post# 1000384 , Reply# 3   7/15/2018 at 21:24 (2,109 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))        

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Wiki sez E'lux owns White as of 1986.  I've got their 98 Gallery washer, still in service until GF moved in with brother last year.  Trouble free.  (The washer, not the GF.  Seldom if ever...)

 

Anywhich, brand names have come to mean next to-- sometimes less than-- nothing these days.  That same machine was also sold as GE and at least one other badge (Whirlmore?).


Post# 1000386 , Reply# 4   7/15/2018 at 23:02 (2,109 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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FriGEMore (Frigidaire, GE, Kenmore ... and also the rarer Gibson specimen, which is a direct WCI/'lux brand, at least at that time).


Post# 1000388 , Reply# 5   7/15/2018 at 23:43 (2,109 days old) by superocd (PNW)        

I remember when I first saw the Frigidaire front loaders when they were reintroduced in '97-98 (it was actually a Kenmore at Sears). I was about five or six years old. I thought "cool, you could have laundromat style washers at home!". I wanted my parents to get one, but they were quite expensive. I think they started at $1500. Now, front loaders are cheap.

Every once in a while I'll see an older Frigidaire/Kenmore FL still in service when I'm out on a call. I've always thought that with a little care and common sense, they would seem like they would hold up better over time, with electromechanical controls and all. Still yet, I'd imagine that bearings and spider assemblies were just as weak on these as they are on all the other domestic FLers.

My Kenmore made by LG is nearing its third year. Fingers crossed with at least seven more. I won't ever get the Speed Queen FL I always wanted, now that they've stopped making them for the domestic market, so I'll either get a Whirlpool or another LG (or Kenmore made by LG, if Sears is still around). Once in a while I'll splurge $1 on a lottery ticket just for kicks and giggles but if I ever won, I'm getting a Milnor!


Post# 1001141 , Reply# 6   7/23/2018 at 11:02 (2,102 days old) by gregingotham (New York)        
hope springs eternal

i'm still praying for the return of the 1-18. in the meantime, the 1973 model i have keeps chugging away.


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