4 year old fridge/freezer - repair or replace?

wickedwitch_2

Hi

Grateful for advice or opinions. Our 4 year old Beko fridge/freezer died this morning. The light is working but that is all. Not the fuse in the plug then as I first hoped!

Is it worth getting a fridge/freezer repaired or should we just bite the bullet and replace as it's out of warranty?

I suspect that repairs will not be cheap!

kwatt

Hard to say. It could just be a thermostat failure but, by the same token could be a compressor failure. Is there any noise at all from it and is there a "click" when the thermostat knob is adjusted?

K.

never_enough

I would get in touch with the maker & complain to them. 4 years is not a reasonable length of service for something like a fridge freezer. Not sure what Beko customer services are like but worth a go.

kwatt

You've no chance of getting anything out Beko or almost any other appliance manufacturer that far out of warranty. If it was beyond repair, maybe on a good day, with a tailwind and a lot of luck you'd get some concession but it's usually takes a fire or something to get a result over six months from the end of the guarantee.

And, anyway, the claim for that would lie with the retailer, not the manufacturer. The manufacturer has no obligation to do anything outside of their warranty period.

K.