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I’m gonna. Amp out here to see if there’s a good fridge maker out there still.
Samsung, whirlpool, lg, and ge all seem to be crossed off.Bosch & kitchenaid are the two "affordable" I still trust.
Thermador, sub-zero & wolf are the not-affordable that I'll always trust.
Sub-Zero and Wolf are the same company. Thermador and Bosch are owned by the same parent company.
KitchenAid got bought out by Whirlpool, so its trustworthiness is probably on the decline.
Anecdote time:
When I bought my house a decade and a half ago, I bought a brand-new Whirlpool dishwasher and Samsung washer and dryer pair. All three failed within a decade. (The Samsung washer in particular was egregious: when I took it apart every piece of it was pristine except for the "spider arm," which was corroded as fuck because they obviously designed it to do so by deliberately making it out of a different metal than everything else.)
I replaced each of them with used Bosch appliances that I got for cheap (or in one case, free), and they're all still going strong.
My expensive Samsung washer/dryer didn’t even last 6 years. Trying my luck with LG currently. Bought from Costco because they have good warranties
Same experience with Samsung here. We also had a fridge, which had a few problems under warranty but once those were fixed it made it 14 years before some plastic piece cracked and started leaking in the interior. That seems to be more the exception than the rule for them though.
My lg washer dryer perform well but had problems after 6 years. But we go through a fuckton of laundry (probably 60 loads/month).
Dryer drum cracked and it also needed new rollers. Washer needed new shocks and suspension, springs needed lubrication.
Wasn't too hard to diy repair; even though it wasn't difficult I had to almost completely disassemble the dryer, so be warned. If you ever replace the washer shocks make sure you cover the access panel with a towel and/or wear protective gloves (my hand slipped and I sliced it bad enough to need 3 stitches).
I’ve had some experience changing fuses out of the Samsung dryer which required taking out the entire drum. Pain in the ass. Thank god for YouTube!
Thankfully I haven’t hard to replace those items you listed. Fingers crossed.
My maytag has been good so far (~8 years)
Supposedly the current generation of LG fridges are good. The appliance repair folks have said repair rates on those are very low. Remains to be seen if that holds long term.
I rolled the dice. Between the lawsuits they lost over the previous generation and warranty substantially longer than others on the market, along with nabbing one on sale for stupid cheap, I figured it was worth the shot.
So far so good anyway.