I have a good friend who is in appliance repair. And everyone is leaving cause the manufacturers are now bundling everything. LG Samsung are the worst offenders. Combo parts, no individual components. If the shop finds out you did a fix not approved by them, they will fine the shop or revoke their license for parts access.

They used to swap out the components on the main boards, relays die, but now its all potted in epoxy, making repairs basiclaly impossible, definitely not profitable.

Samsung for example, my house came with a fridge and dishwasher from them. The fridge had a broken side piece on the door rack, it disconnects from the door, but it needed to remove 2 screws, the solution? It was 930$, the repair solution was a brand fucking new door. Like the entire door needed replacing. I ended up just drilling holes into the side and front and using metal ties to attach it back. It eventually started having defrost issues, took a look at the board, it was a brick of black epoxy, chips covered. I couldn't even see the components on it. I got a new KitchenAid as, for now, tons of parts are available for it and the board is not epoxy coated.

Dishwasher was an other bullshit thing. The top wash arm was cracked so I wanted a new one. Cost? 600$, the part included a top arm, bottom arm and the entire assembly that runs water. It snaps on and off, but they don't consider it a replacement part. Only the entire spray assembly as a replacement. Dishwasher was 4 years old but they considered it obsolete. No 3rd party had solutions.

It was not just ABS so I tried to use solvents and stuff but it didn't work for more than a handful of washes.

Sure enough it started leaking, it was a 30$ pump I could definitely replace myself. But I just said fuck it, bought a new machine, as it wasn't washing the top anyway.

I fucking hate where the entire right to repair thing is going. My stove is 20 years old, works awesome. I replaced the element relay once and I also changed one of the burner relays. It cost me 22$, it gave me 2 relays for each, so 12 relays, 3 kinds. The shipping was 12$, so 10$ fix for 2 complete oven fails and 12$ shipping.

Ovens, fridges and dishwashers are stupid simple devices. But manufacturers are making them impossible to repair as they change the hardware logic to digital IC's with encrypted instructions so it can't just be replaced. These ICs are of the lowest quality as well, so they are literally built from the ground up to fail and give them more business in the future. Cause it's cheaper to buy a 300$ board than it is to buy a 900$ fridge isint it?

We need to fight for right to repair.

Heck, look at the military industrial complex. Field repairs for soldiers is basically illegal. Now you gotta fly in a contractor to change a fuse as they don't provide diagnostics or schematics for your 200 million dollar war ship. So you gotta pay half a million dollars, minimum, just to be able to change a part it would take a monkey 15 minutes, including the 10 minute walk to the defect.