Comment by southwindcg
1 month ago
Only eight years for a dryer is definitely not pretty good in my mind. It's barely acceptable unless you have a huge family and are doing laundry daily. I had a low-end Capri (Sears house brand) that was 21 years old and still going strong when I moved away. It was serviced once, by me, to replace a fuse. If I'd paid twice as much and gotten only eight years out of one, I'd be furious.
Yeah-- I was thinking that 8 years isn't even broken-in. My old Sears dryer was 27 when I had to replace a pulley and a thermal fuse. It ran just like it was new after that. I left it with that house but, hopefully, it's still running today.
Sears (Kenmore) appliances from that era are manufactured by Whirlpool in the US.
The motor died on mine and they "didn't make it any more".
I tried to find something close and make custom gearing but it ended up being cheaper to get a new dryer.