Advice Needed on Buying Appliances

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I bought all new appliances from Sears when we moved here eight years ago. Stove is white with black trim and top, dishwasher is black the fridge was a nice side by side white. I ended up replacing the fridge last year after it rusted out on the side, plus I could never keep it from icing up here, and it was a frost free. Sears kept telling us, when they would come out, that the side by side types do not breath well here with all of the humidity and they are notorious for freezing up. Mine would get about three inches of ice from the bottom to the top and then the fans would quit working, towards the end I was manually defrosting the stupid thing every two weeks. So I replaced the fridge with a black one that has the fridge on bottom freezer on top, and have not had any problems with it at all. The interior of my stove is pretty well rusted out as well, but I am not replacing it until absolutely necessary as I know now it will not matter, the next one will do the same. Turtle wax polish was recommended to us by the sears repairmen when they came, and I think it does help. The dishwasher is plastic inside and so far no problems with it.

I had extended warranties on all of these when they were new and kept the one on the fridge going all along as it was such a pain, when we got rid of it it still had some warranty left.