Whirlpool Stainless Steel Side-by-side Refrigerator

We've had this fridge about 1 month and it is very quiet and has presented no problems. It has cold water and ice in either crushed or cubed form. My son loves the crushed ice feature since it cools drinks down fast. My main beef about this refrigerator is that there is a lot of wasted space. It uses traditional light bulbs including bulbs behind the food (why???). The bulbs and their guards waste nearly 1 cu ft of space. The water is kept in a resivoir in the back of the refrigerator that prevents the shelves from going all the way to the backs: another cubic foot of space lost. The shelves have too wide reinforcement on the shelves that cause items to tip over and have a fancy curved front: I'd rather just have the shelves made to maximize storage! Anyway, they need to more efficiently make use of the interior space of the frige including using small, energy efficient leds.

I've had this for more than a year now and it's been running like a champ. I was skeptical when I wanted to buy it coz it was so damn cheap. It gets the job done and all the bells and whistles work fine. The black plastic on the ice and water dispenser is a bit cheap looking but it is OK otherwise. I've been very happy with this fridge and I am just wondering why other brands go for double this price on a stainless steel side by side.

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Extremely disappointed at the cheap materials used for shelving.

After getting my first real job after college, I bought my parents this fridge for Christmas after their freezer quit on them. Was looking forward to giving them a good 10 years or so with this new fridge (parents' previous fridge lasted 10+ years), but was sorely disappointed when after just 2 years, the plastic edges around the shelves began to crack. First, the shelves inside the door, then the rest of the shelves. Never have we had this problem with our previous refrigerators. Extremely disappointing. Warranty is only good for one year, so I guess it's too bad for us.

Don't be fooled by the nice-looking exterior and expensive price tag. This will be the last time I buy a Whirlpool anything.

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The product works great. I dont have the water plugged in. On the first day it made

lot of noise. Its fine now and havent done that.

Plenty of room.

Shipment is bad so be careful. It took a month to deliver the fridge. I am in west coast

and the fridge came all the way from east coast. The shippers didnt do a good job

coordinating the shipment. THey would bring the fridge to my door without calling me

first.

One con is its too high so make sure you check the measurements before you buy

which i forgot to do :) and ended up having to move it.

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I bought a similar model to this, the ED5PVEXW model, the side by side with the ice and water dispenser. ONE WEEK after the year warranty they give you it stopped cooling. We had a repairman come out and he said that Whirlpool and Maytag refrigerators were notorious for burning out the compressors due to a defective component and that our compressor was extremely hot. He said many have even caught fire and ruined houses! Maytag, Whirlpool's sister company, has recalled many of their models for these fire hazards, but Whirlpool has ignored the issue for the most part, only recalling a few models. I called Lowe's, where I bought my refrigerator (and where a suprisingly large amount of the failed refrigerators were purchased, check consumeraffairs.com) and they said they couldn't help me, to call Whirlpool. Well, Whirlpool said they couldn't do anything because the warranty had expired. Before you buy a Whirlpool refrigerator be sure to check the internet review sites and read the horror stories! I will never buy another Whirlpool/Maytag/Kenmore appliance, and I will never again shop at Lowe's.