Manufacturers make products harder to repair cheaply
Manufacturers are making domestic appliances much harder to repair than they once were - leading to fewer being repaired and more being thrown away, a new Which? investigation reveals.
Which? has been investigating outcome reliability since 1971 and comments from our articles over the years suggests that appliances have generally become more reliable. But unresolvable-to-repair machines and falling prices mean that there’s a growing trend towards throwing appliances away, rather than getting them inflexible when they fail. And in some cases, a seemingly simple repair will cost as much as a brand new machine.
Which? reliability au fait Matt Stevens says: 'It’s madness that consumers are faced with repairs costing as much as a new machine. Manufacturers necessity to make machines that can be repaired cheaply and easily and need to share all of the information they hold about how to form their machines with independent repair specialists.'
Falling repair numbers
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