Anyone got a Kenmore electric stove within the last year?

[aquart]

My sister has a Kenmore stove made by Maytag (she had thought it was Whirlpool)which turned out to be PAINTED, not ENAMELED. The paint is peeling near the heat.

Has anyone had a similar experience or heard of such stoves?

[suston96]

1. Model number and serial number?

We just got one last three weeks.

[aquart]

4. I'll post it later. Check back.

[madrchsod]

2. it could be that it was`t cleaned properly

and they cut costs before they moved production to mexico. she should check and see where it was made..

[aquart]

3. PAINTED. Not enameled.

[gollygee]

5. No but I have one from about 10 years ago that isn't working right anymore

I really think appliances should last for ages. I remember my grandma had this ancient stove and fridge. Why can't appliances last like that anymore?

[DCKit]

13. You got that right.....

My eight year old Amana oven doesn't work.
My five year old Whirlpool fridge broke down and I had to call the Better Business Bureau to force them to replace it after the repairman tore it to shreds.
My Whirlpool dishwasher needed a new motor and new heater within five years.

To say they're not making them like they used to would be an understatement.

[flyingfysh]

6. apparently Sears does not honor service contracts on stoves

We had a glass-top range about 10 years old, and had been paying for a service contract from the beginning. The top cracked, and the repairman told us they could not replace the top, and the stove was not safe to use. Sears refused to replace the stove, refused to give credit toward a new stove, and refused to refund what we had paid for a service contract.

[liberal renegade]

7. Nothing is built to last anymore

everything we buy is designed to fall apart, it's all fucking junk.

[Hekate]

8. Good luck with that. Wonder what Consumer Reports has to say about that model.

My cooking components are pretty ancient -- a Gaffers & Satler electric oven that is over 40 years old, original with the house, and a gas stove top that is at least 25 years old, because it was there when we moved in. One time the oven needed a new heating coil.

I think this stuff should last forever, too, but then I don't believe in planned obsolescence -- or stuff with formerly good brand names now being made out of crap in China.

Hekate

[pansypoo53219]

9. apparently the fridges now have smaller compressors

so they die quicker, but then the newer ones get more efficient so its a win/loss.

[karlrschneider]

10. Not possible. Nobody sells stoves any more. Only Cooking Systems.

Haven't you noticed? EVERYTHING you put in your house has to be a goddamn SYSTEM. A bed is now a SLEEP system! If they could figure out a way around the FCC rules, toilet manufacturers would be promoting "shit systems" on Monday Night Football.
:eyes:

[porphyrian]

11. Isn't Kenmore a Sears brand?

Sears has been on a fast track into the shitter since the Eighties.

[MiniMe]

17. Kenmore rebrands name appliances

[demodonkey]

18. If they've been on this "fast track" since the 80's, it isn't very FAST. nt

[porphyrian]

22. Or they're already in the shitter and have been for a while, which is the case. -n/t

[Gemini Cat]

12. I bought a gas stove, fridge and w&d from Sears in Jan. 2003.

The stove died in February of 05. There was a part that broke which basically made the stove useless and un-fixable. It was a Kenmore.
The fridge still runs, but the door shelves and one of the selves broke soon thereafter. They did not honour the service contract which I paid for on either the stove or fridge.
The washer had problems this year, but I was able to find someone to fix it or other wise I would have been in a very pissed off mood.

I will never buy anything from Sears again.

[aquart]

16. My door shelf broke, too.

And they no longer supply that part for a refrigerator less than ten years old.

[MetaTrope]

14. Got a Kenmore vacuum cleaner here

And talk about a piece of absolute junk...

[momster]

15. Don't Buy Appliances from Sears

We have tried to buy things from them...the sales person lied to us about the unit, saying the oven had been returned because 'it didn't fit' the first purchaser's kitchen (to be fair she was only repeating what she'd been told). Wrong. The heating element was broken. They gave us another one but the installer damaged the door. It took weeks to get somebody out with the little bitty part needed to fix it (the curved part that keeps the door on). All the time, they kept trying to sell us 'extended warranties' while trying to get us to pay for the services *their own contract* said we didn't have to pay!

Careful. They sell the same stuff at K'Mart, now that it has merged.

[demodonkey]

19. Our 1973 Kenmore washer just died last year. nt

[michreject]

20. Not taking a chance on cheap appliances anymore

This is the stove we bought. It was 2,200.00 W/O the side panels. They ere optional.:wtf:

What sucks is that we're selling our house and leaving it.

http://ww1.dacor.com/products/product_page.asp?ID=ER30D

[Vinca]

21. About 10 years ago I bought a Maytag range that turned out to be

Magic Chef, an inferior brand. The paint began peeling near the bottom of the oven door within a couple of years. I'll never buy Maytag again.