Now a days it is been a common perception to people that washing machine are actually made to last only for 5 years. Even sales representatives often say the same. But regrettably many modern washing machine don’t even reach 5 years whether they are been actually designed with the limited time period or not. The problem has its root from the descending gap between cost of repair and the cost of purchasing a new budget washing machine.

People think buying new washing machines are better than repairing their old machine even though their appliance would be less than halfway through their potential life span. They never know that when replacing cheap washing machine, the life span can be equally poor to their old machine. Furious competition existing between washing machine manufacturers, mass and constant production of models has aroused a situation where they come incredibly cheap than repairing an old washing machine. Hence most of the people do not seem to regret to get a new and cheap models frequently.

Due to solid competition and the fear to survive in today’s market, manufacturers are forced to produce appliance cheap. In order to make profit, they equip tacky parts and sell. There are actually manufacturers who sell and support the appliance all through out the year using a good supply of spare parts. But now the situation has completely change making washing machine to break in functions as early as 18 months. It is becoming common that to save money on production cost, most of the producers has used techniques to make the repair unattainable or some time to replace the whole part instead of a small component.

Conclusion
It is in the hands of manufacturers to produce durable and quality goods which may lay strong goodwill to it in the years to come. Also any repairs from the washing machine must be taken care by the concern manufacturers with minimum cost.