Maytag Admiral

Dismal service by whirlpool and its after care and when this fridge breaks down will never buy one of their products again. The insurance company just wanted to flog and extended policy or get you to buy a new appliance instead of fixing the stupid machine. It took over three months and plenty of emails before the refrigerator got fixed. They gave me the details of a service company sameday fridge repairs agsrefrigeration who replaced the fan motor. At last we have a working fridge freezer.

Had this installed as part of a kitchen refit several years ago, fitter's suggested model, and it has been a problem ever since - overheating, underheating, leaking. Sadly we were left to deal with Maytag ourselves with no support, which was disappointing but also a lesson to us. Warranty was extended at our suggestion but has since expired and now, true to form (and close to Christmas) we are back with a broken appliance - melting freezer, leaking water dispenser, malfunctioning temperature control.

Quite simply it has been a dreadful waste of money, and arranging repairs and service is like some Kafkaesque nightmare. Avoid at all costs!

Have to say if i had known about the problems this monster was goung to cause i would'nt have bothered. We have had countless occasions over the last four or five years and different companies and their engineers out wh all tried to fix the fault changing fans,boards etc us name it they have changed it what a load of cobblers all this money on an appliance that has'nt given much of a service, totally unreliable anyway was just about to throw the towel in when by a off chance came across agsrefrigeration who service the london area they came out and found their was a problem with one of the light switches thats why the fans kept burning out.

I bought the Admiral Fridge Freezer 5 years ago. It is a re - badged Maytag model and Maytag undertake any service issues. I took out an annual service plan offered by Maytag when I purchased the item which was fortunate as it has suffered from a number of faults from day 1. Maytag have now refused to renew the service plan and the appliance has developed another serious fault. Maytag's customer service is appalling. On the last three occasions I called and asked to speak to the person who was last dealing with the problem, I was told, quite rudely, that she wasn't available. I asked that she call me back but, this has never happened. I have now written off the appliance and will buy another model - most definitely not Maytag. If anyone is considering buying a May tag appliance, I would urge them to look elsewhere.

I had a Maytage/Admiral (still not sure exactly which brand it was as no branding on the fridge anywhere!) and for the 5 years since it was purchased it was virtually fault free and a joy to use compared to the rubbish small fridges I'd had before.

The one fault I had was the plastic flap that opens to dispense the ice broke, it's a 4 inch plastic disc that a solenoid flips open/close and one of the plastic lugs snapped off. Being the handy sort, I glued it back together and it was fine again.

I had the all stainless steel version which contrary to the name, it stains very easily... the answer is to wipe down with Johnsons baby oil, yes seriously, don't waste money on stainless steel cleaners that streak, nice cheap baby oild once every few months makes it looks superb.

Bought this Admiral American-style Fridge Freezer about 2 years ago. Was trouble within the first year. Alarm goes off every day. Freezer warms up. The reseller J&S Appliances couldn't care less. Maytag, who own Admiral, are not interested in speaking to me unless I want to pay £200 for an engineer to come and have a look. Absolutely appalling customer service. Wouldn't even consider buying another Admiral/Maytag product.

UTTERLY POOR MACHINE! As other reveiws... numerous breakdowns. The switch between the fridge and freezer has broken a couple of times...jamming open and freezing fridge contents. Had one of the circuit boards replaced recently only to have it work a week then there was a burning smell and the house fuse was tripped and it's failed again! God knows why! I have a good engineer who cannot get any information from Admiral service department. Just seems to be a "chase the faults situation. Going to cut my losses (and my lost food bill!) and buy something else!

Yes, it looks good, but dont be seduced. Bad product not fit for purpose.

Our fridge kept freezing in its 2nd year - a known problem according to Maytag engineer. Engineer fixed problem by installing a baffle heater in the fridge. Sadly we were out of warranty by the time we got round to getting engineer out, so an expensive fix to a design fault... If this "heater" is required to keep fridge at correct temperature, why was it not installed at time of manufacture?

Also, the water/ice touch/control panel is very cheap and where you keep pressing the buttons the plastic covering is lifting and wont last much longer

Engineer was great, service personnel at Maytag not so

My Maytag f/freezer is 5 years old now, but since we had the f/freezer, we have had problems with it, the company refused to take it back and give us a refund, so we ended up keeping it. Because of the hassle we had, they gave us an extended 5 year warranty as a goodwill gesture. Lucky for that, because the fridge has broken down 4 times in 5 years and I only had it repaired last week. It is not cooling as it should be. I am now wondering shall I buy another years warranty for £72.00, so we are covered for a year. I have a feeling it is going to pack up soon. I really regret buying this machine and would not recommend anyone to purchase it.

My Admiral fridge/freezer has just briken down just short of its 5th anniversary after very light use(both firge & freezer running warm). I bought it from John Lewis in Cambridge but sadly didn't go for the 5 yr extended warrantee thinking that fridge/freezers last for ever. My 10 yr old Bosch is still going strong in the garage and without it I would have been in a pickle. To add salt to injury, it has been impossible to arrange for a service engineer to see to it. I tried John Lewis, Matag (both on phone and email) without success. I suppose I'll have to ditch it and go for a German machine. My advice is never by an Admiral or its much more expesive sister the Matag and for that matter any American product.