I never said they don’t leak, all those systems have leaks with enough time and a certain failure rate right?
If they have increased their failure rate since being offshored largely to China and SEA I would not be surprised, as the manufacturing standards there are infamously lower than USA/EU/etc, but it seems like something where evidence is scant - I can’t find anything in my searches. I’m not saying your experience is not valuable, I believe you when you say you service more of the new ones than the old ones, but there may be other reasons for that than those models having a higher failure rate.
For example, it could be that people are buying fridges more often nowadays (like every 7-8 years instead of every 15+ in the 90s) because so many components on them are made cheaper and fail earlier… Everything is made to me more disposable nowadays (for the worse, IMO). If there are surviving models around from the 90s and earlier then you get survivor’s bias - you don’t see all the ones that failed as they went to scrapyards 25 years ago, etc.
Tell that to the thousands of clients I service every year with no r134a left if their sealed systems.
There’s a reason appliance repair techs that work on sealed systems are in such high demand.
Dude. I literally recharge two refrigerators yesterday that were less than ten years old.
I never said they don’t leak, all those systems have leaks with enough time and a certain failure rate right?
If they have increased their failure rate since being offshored largely to China and SEA I would not be surprised, as the manufacturing standards there are infamously lower than USA/EU/etc, but it seems like something where evidence is scant - I can’t find anything in my searches. I’m not saying your experience is not valuable, I believe you when you say you service more of the new ones than the old ones, but there may be other reasons for that than those models having a higher failure rate.
For example, it could be that people are buying fridges more often nowadays (like every 7-8 years instead of every 15+ in the 90s) because so many components on them are made cheaper and fail earlier… Everything is made to me more disposable nowadays (for the worse, IMO). If there are surviving models around from the 90s and earlier then you get survivor’s bias - you don’t see all the ones that failed as they went to scrapyards 25 years ago, etc.