Samsung Washing Machines Recalled For Risk of 'Impact Injuries' (usatoday.com)

The Galaxy Note7 smartphone is not the only Samsung product consumers need to worry about. On Friday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of 2.8 million top-loading washing machines because of a risk of "impact injuries." From a report on USA Today: According to CPSC, the top of the washing machine could unexpectedly detach during use. Samsung received 733 reports of "excessive vibration" or the top detaching from the chassis of the machine. Nine injuries have been reported, including a broken jaw. The machines were sold at multiple retailers including Best Buy, The Home Depot, Lowe's and Sears from March 2011 to November 2016.

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[Neo-Rio-101]

http://youtu.be/50CMhnsz4DU

Not surpised

[Immerial]

I was just talking to a repairman last week about how he refuses to repair Samsung appliances. They are so bad that they were breaking before his repair warranty expired, causing him to do free repairs for folks. The clients incorrectly assume it was something he had done, even though it was a different part... fix the water pump, the motherboard fails, etc. It caused him to LOSE money on any repairs. So now he just refuses to work on any Samsungs. The other warning sign for him... all the replacement parts are all new part numbers... almost none of the original parts are listed. They crank them out fast with flaws and then try to fix them after the fact. Just plain horrible engineering!

So we need to be Samsung haters now?

[jellomizer]

Samsung like GE, LG, Sony... Sell a lot of products across many different sectors.
Linking the unit that makes Washing Machines with the group that makes the Note 7. Is quite unlikely that there is any crossover of skills and probably the culture is different too.
Engineers who do electronics and phones designs are not the same that do washing machine designs.