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 Refridgerator Question.
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05/29/10 10:44 PM
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We have a Maytag Wide-By-Side fridge that we bought 8 years ago and the compressor is fried. Is it worth repairing?
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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05/29/10 11:52 PM
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Fishing Ape
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If the compressor is bad it will cost to much to fix. It might be the relay on the compressor? How do you know the compressor is bad?
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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05/30/10 06:44 PM
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We have a Maytag Wide-By-Side fridge that we bought 8 years ago and the compressor is fried. Is it worth repairing? Probably not. If it is one of those $1,200 fancy-shmancy jobs, maybe, but probably not. I work on the big commercial equipment for a living, so I could repair my own, and last time mine acted up I bought a new one. Minor parts are not hard to replace, but compressors cost way too much.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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05/30/10 09:24 PM
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sbump26
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Fishing Ape is right, might not be the compressor. Sometimes the overload on the side of the compressor goes bad. Mine did, cost 20.00 to replace it. Check out the overload and clean the coils good.
Put the plug in.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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06/20/10 12:00 AM
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If the compressor is bad it will cost to much to fix. It might be the relay on the compressor? How do you know the compressor is bad? I had a technician change out the relay and it didn't help unfortunately. He said the compressor was fried  .
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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06/20/10 12:04 AM
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We have a Maytag Wide-By-Side fridge that we bought 8 years ago and the compressor is fried. Is it worth repairing? Probably not. If it is one of those $1,200 fancy-shmancy jobs, maybe, but probably not. I work on the big commercial equipment for a living, so I could repair my own, and last time mine acted up I bought a new one. Minor parts are not hard to replace, but compressors cost way too much. Kind of what I was thinking. It is a top of the line stainless model but I don't think it's worth fixing. I've already let my youngest brother come out to the house and rob the ice maker out of it so he could replace the one in his wide-by-side. No more Maytags for this guy. I'm thinking about a Kenmore or a GE Profile for the next go-round.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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06/21/10 03:09 PM
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Have you cleaned the coils (back and bottom) and checked to make sure the drain isn't clogged with frozen water? It's more common than anything else. Hard to imagine the compressor going out on an 8 yr old unit. There are refrigerators 40+ yrs old everywhere....
Using a dust vac or shop vac on those coils will sure make them last.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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06/21/10 03:10 PM
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One more thing you might check is the magnetic seals around the doors. It's less common, but it happens.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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07/07/10 10:17 PM
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We had a Maytag and it was a POS.
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07/09/10 09:34 PM
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Maytag went to [censored] around 5 years ago. They build fridges to last between 5 and 7 years nowdays, so dont pay alot for one, those fridges that lasted 20 30, and even 40, years are gone forever.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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07/11/10 07:58 PM
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Have you cleaned the coils (back and bottom) and checked to make sure the drain isn't clogged with frozen water? It's more common than anything else. Hard to imagine the compressor going out on an 8 yr old unit. There are refrigerators 40+ yrs old everywhere....
Using a dust vac or shop vac on those coils will sure make them last. It's shot! I'm letting one of my brothers rob parts off of it for his pos Maytag.
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07/11/10 07:59 PM
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We had a Maytag and it was a POS.
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07/11/10 07:59 PM
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Maytag went to [censored] around 5 years ago. They build fridges to last between 5 and 7 years nowdays, so dont pay alot for one, those fridges that lasted 20 30, and even 40, years are gone forever. Yep, planned obsolescence.
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Re: Refridgerator Question.
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07/16/10 12:29 AM
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I had a Maytag and bought a 5 yr extended warranty. Thank Goodness!! After the 5th or 6th repair, Best Buy took it back and we got a Whirlpool. Maytags are junk. Ask around. Google it.
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