Comment by blibble

> It’s amazing how nothing goes wrong with my 20+ year old Maytags, Whirlpools, or Estates by Whirlpool (their budget subbrand). No logic board failures, drain pump failures.

whirlpool tumble driers are notorious in the UK for catching fire

https://inews.co.uk/news/business/peterborough-fire-hotpoint...

> At a parliamentary hearing in July, the US appliance company told MPs the numbers were higher than feared, after 1.7 million products were modified following the scandal.

> Whirlpool said that its machines could be linked to 750 fires in the last 11 years, or one every five days.

the grenfell disaster was also started by a whirlpool fridge

and their factory in peterborough also caught fire