Modern appliance to me are just like modern cars. Far more to potentially go wrong. Although the overall lifespan of few brands really outclass many of the others. Cost per mile or cost per washing load is directly rated to your income stream for tolerance. Also when a household appliance goes down. It pretty much demands quick attention.

These values are identified pretty well with cars. Not so much with appliances now. I depend more on my appliance guy to guide us. Trying to stay away from the real junk at least. He sells new and used as well as personally services them. I think he has developed a following where it is known he rebuilds certain brands of older units. For people that want reliability back.

I assume by now most makers of appliances are importing as much offshore content. As cheaply as possible from primarily China. My guess is they are reluctant to pay for higher quality build components from them as it Impacts their bottom line.

We live in a much different economy than years ago.

The consumer is hard to pin down today. What motivates them to buy what they do in all too many cases is a pretty open question. I have resigned myself to buying a new dishwasher about every five years now. If it goes longer without a major issue fine. Simply because that has been about our average for quite some time now.

Occasionaly when following some new car owners of specific brands. I have to wonder what they were thinking as there is so much negative information out there on what they have purchased.

Perhaps they only lease them and disgard them. People that are on moderate income streams do not have to think more but they should. Their resources are limited.

As an older couple our resources fortunately are not limited. At the same time part of this happened because we were always both conservative and watched what we buy.

It is almost ludicrous that the newest stove for the cottage is an older stove. Simply because our appliance guy told me the new ones have serious issues in salt air enviroments about every two years. Think expensive new digital control boards. I pick up the replacement tomorrow afternoon. It looks like new but is far from it. The oven calibration has been checked out. Important as the wife is really fussy about oven performance. Under the burner pots is not just plain or painted steel and like new. Partially digital but the oven control is manual. It may have been an expensive stove in the day.

The oven door spring or springs let go in the otherwise good stove. I had a quick look but there is some serious damage. I found parts of the broken linkage that holds The spring in the bottom drawer. A good used door would have solved the issue. If you could find one.