Old Family Member Bites the Dust

[KS55]

An old friend passed this week. My tumble dryer gave up the ghost. It was 50 years old and had never had a repair.
There is a serious point here. The machine had just two heat settings: low and high. The timer was turn a knob to the number of minutes required. That’s it: no buttons to press, no led display, no computer control panel. Similarly my dishwasher lasted 25 years. Again, no complexity at all. Both were made by Hotpoint in the days when that was a good company. I have a Hotpoint washing machine which is 20 years old, never had a repair.
My boiler (14 years) and dishwasher (12 years) both recently died because the electronics failed and the repair would have not been worth it.
So what’s the problem? Over engineering or deliberate design shortening of the machines’ lifespan?

 

[Bill Walker]

Sadly nothing these days is made to last.
Very bad for the planet.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Built in obsolescence.

 

[Sir peace frog]

we use equipment at work that has been doing the job for years , we get in these new machines with there safety sensors and they are safe because we cant fucking use them

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Thoughts and prayers

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Our Beko frost free fridge freezer is still going strong after ten years of dedicated toil costing three and a half ton, so VFM exceded. The same with our Indeset washing machine costing two ton that's also ten years old. Beko a Turkish affair, mass produce appliances that not only are sustainable, but possess the nessasary features to compete against their luxury counterpart, but obviously some buyer resistance due to perceived quality over the main brands.

Having said that if a two ton washer packs up after a year then it's reached fair value at £3.84 a week and far cheaper than the launderette. Appliances used to be more expensive in the olden days factoring in a preriquisite for longevity, but these days it's not as important. (planet excluded)

 

[Blue Maverick]

Look at new cars if you have a yellow symbol on your dash you fail your MOT automatically, there are that many dodgy sensors it’s a money making scheme to go to a garage and pay £80 to plug a computer in to tell you a brake pad is low or your turbo is no doubt faulty because it’s shit built Or a bulb is out, fucking nonsense.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

An old friend passed this week. My tumble dryer gave up the ghost. It was 50 years old and had never had a repair.
There is a serious point here. The machine had just two heat settings: low and high. The timer was turn a knob to the number of minutes required. That’s it: no buttons to press, no led display, no computer control panel. Similarly my dishwasher lasted 25 years. Again, no complexity at all. Both were made by Hotpoint in the days when that was a good company. I have a Hotpoint washing machine which is 20 years old, never had a repair.
My boiler (14 years) and dishwasher (12 years) both recently died because the electronics failed and the repair would have not been worth it.
So what’s the problem? Over engineering or deliberate design shortening of the machines’ lifespan?

What was the issue with the dryer?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Look at new cars if you have a yellow symbol on your dash you fail your MOT automatically, there are that many dodgy sensors it’s a money making scheme to go to a garage and pay £80 to plug a computer in to tell you a brake pad is low or your turbo is no doubt faulty because it’s shit built Or a bulb is out, fucking nonsense.

My car has a dodgy sensor on the inlet manifold that sometimes causes a warning light on the dash when its cold. It latches the fault code, so even if the fault isn't present the warning persists unless it is reset.

I discovered that on my make/model you can do a manual reset without a code reader which clears any code no longer present and makes the warning light go off. On mine it involves a sequence of turning off and back on whilst pressing the accelerator pedal a number of times. Other cars it requires you to disconnect the battery for a short period.

Worth checking out to see if it can be done on your car.

 

[aguero93:20]

What was the issue with the dryer?

It stopped working.