Best Westinghouse Chest Freezers

Not as Practical as Hoped – Purchased to replace an ever reliable Kelvinator which lasted more than 20 years and failed probably only due to recent poor intermittent power… Read more

supply. The Westinghouse unit looks good and appears to perform well, but it is basically just a bottomless pit with only one pàthetically small top basket and no internal divider, this will be painful to use with items not seperated and items on the high side falling into the main pit. Looked to Westinghouse website for options and found the model is not even listed but in any event the cost for another upper basket would likely be around $75 as for similar size models. Will have to go to Kmart to buy odd baskets, just disappointed that Westinghouse did not even include a divider and we made our selection over and above the cheaper Chinese brands, just looks like penny pinching. Be prepared to spend more money to make the product more user friendly. The photos show the older Kelvinator top basket compared to the new and the bottomless pit.

Quality control need's improvement – Terrible hinge alignment from the factory, which in turn causes the seal to not have a proper fit. You can easily do the paper or banknote test, and… Read more

it will slide right out. Before I knew it was a hinge issue, we had the repair guy come out and heat the seal up, which did work until you opened and closed it (and we did leave it for hours before opening it again). The seals on this unit need to be thicker, too.