Annoying Quirks
Submitted by Wasted Time -
9/1/2020
At 28.4 cubic feet this side by side refrigerator is extra large capacity. It is the largest that I could find and this was important to me as I did not want to have two refrigerator/freezers in the house. With the side by side everything is in plain sight in the refrigerator and the freezer and easy to see with the led lighting. The ice maker is large, a big plus for us as we've don't run out of ice anymore. All though there is problem with the ice maker. I have never had a refrigerator with an icemaker of this idiotic design. Instead of the metal arm that raises and lowers to sense the amount of ice when the ice maker drops a new batch of ice. This ice maker has a paddle that retracts and then pushes forward to sense the amount of ice when the ice maker drops a new batch of ice. The problem, the paddle pushes the ice cubes into the freezer and they cascade down through the freezer and sound like a pinball machine at all hours of the day or night. Some ice cubes stop on various shelves others go to the bottom of the freezer. You never know when you will have some cubes ejecting on to your floor when removing an item from the freezer. So pleasant. About once a month you take the bottom freezer drawer out and collect the ice cubes that have made it to the bottom of the freezer. I did shut the ice maker off at night so as not to be awakened by the pinball machine sound, this did not work so well as the ice maker needs the night hours to continue producing ice to recover from the days ice consumption. Also I did not want to continue turning the ice maker switch off then on as it was getting loose, not sure why, it is a thin little plastic slide switch. I have been told the ice maker is working correctly. I guess it is the poor design that created a pinball ice maker and poor quality control that allowed the refrigerator to ship with a broken shelf. The quality is also poor, the first refrigerator was dead on arrival with only a flickering control panel. The replacement had a broken shelf and dents, between being cheaply made, poor quality control and poor design this is not an outstanding product
Originally posted on www.ge.com
No, I do not recommend this product
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