Greetings,
This is in regards to a double door lg refrigerator (Model no.: gc-b217wlq) we had purchased approximately 6 years ago. Two years ago, the refrigerator stopped working and we contacted the lg customer service to have it repaired. After inspection, the lg technician informed us that the refrigerator stopped working because the “front display unit” was damaged and it had to be replaced. The technician also stated that, “unfortunately the unit is discontinued and hence this front display unit is no longer available”.
It is very disappointing to see how a spare part is not available for your lg products. Do you expect customers like us to throw away a fairly new refrigerator just because the parts are not available? Being frustrated, i hit the side of the fridge with my palm and it somehow started to work again. Ever since the refrigerator has been working approximately for the last two years. Clearly, the lg technician had no idea in figuring out the root cause of the problem. Had the root cause been the “front display unit”, the refrigerator would have not started to work after hitting it with my palm.
Now, the refrigerator has stopped working again. The refrigerator does not cool, as the compressor is not working. I am having an extremely hard time trying to find a technician to fix this. If i do find a technician, they tell me the parts have been discontinued. So what do we customers do? How can you expect your customers to throw away your products that are fairly new just because lg does not supply spare parts?
There are 47 split air conditioning units installed at our hotel in cochin, kerala, india. If this is my experience in having one refrigerator repaired, i could only imagine the horrible experience i would have to endure with lg moving forward. This disappointing experience would force me to discontinue using all lg products and replace them with samsung or any other leading brand with better customer reviews.
I have attached a picture of the model number of the refrigerator. I kindly urge you to please look into this matter and do the needful.
Thank you.
LG Electronics customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.