Our latest problem is a F&P dishwasher. It was already installed in the house when we bought it but I've established it is a new model. Last week when it was doing its thing the house decided that there were too many things going on at once (dishwasher, breadmaker, radio etc. and blew its fuse. One of the decent modern improvements are fuse boxes. No longer do we have to muck around with fuse wire and old ceramic fuses, we just flick the switch back up. Everything is fine. Everything that has normal, decent and comprehensible working parts that is. Not the bloody high tech F&P dishwasher. This decided to throw a wobbly because it didn't like the house blowing its fuse. Some kind of micro chip in its memory board packed a sad and the whole machine stopped working. Remember when cars made sense? You could lift the bonnet and recognise things there, establish if something was loose or missing and remedy the problem.
Not now. They are far too complicated necessitating an expensive trip to a
The dishwasher is like this. Unscrewing bolts to take the cover off and find a switch or something loose was fruitless. The expert (fortunately one who lives just one bay away), came around and said that the memory board has to be replaced. He was apologetic that it was going to cost $180. $180 for a bit of plastic and gobbledygook. Piss on you F&P (Finaglers and Profiteers).
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I know where you are coming from. We've had multiple dishwashers, washing machines and dryers fail . Luckily Sue is an expert at dealing with the retailers and manufacturers and so far we haven't had to pay out.
They really don't make 'em like they used too!
Second fiddle- you are right. F&P shut down their New Zealand manufacturing plant now everything has 'made in China' on it. And I fear the quality is on a downward slide because of it.
Anyway, I still don't see what's wrong with washing the dishes yourself. Often it takes as much time to load and unlaod the dishwasher anyway.
End of rant.
Shouldn't the guy at the end of your post be pissing into the wind?
You're right. I changed it.
Actually, that guy in the car photo looks like he is about to piss on the mechanic.
Winge, winge, winge. With the NZ economy in such a parlous state, you should look on these events as a golden opportunity to boost the national morale.
If you spend on a repair man, with their very reasonable $120 an hour rate (plus travel time and copious amounts of tea and biscuits)plus the cost of the spare parts with their almost miserly 500% markup, then you're helping the Kiwi working man stand on your own two feet.
If you spend on a new F & P dishwasher, you're helping to boost the economy of both NZ and China, and not only help the plight of a benighted peasant in Shanghai, but support a major carbon footprint as well.
You must be so proud and pleased.
Look you limp-wristed whinger, you've got a wife. What on earth do you want to buy a dishwasher for?
you married one.
"you've got a wife....you married one."
The Old Girl won't marry me. We've been living together for 22 years in unmarried bliss (or in Sin as Second would probably put it).
Sin is fun, but be a mensch and make an honest dishwaher out of her.
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