Best Side by Side Fridges / Refrigerators

Good fridge – Good fridge only problem is handle wear, pretend chroming is wearing off where people grab.

Vibration & inverted handle fault – Good fridge freezer but has a few faults. Water and ice maker, although a little noisey has always worked well. 1 - random vibration after a couple… Read more

of years is very loud. 2 - cup style handles in the doors are a fault - any liquid accidentally split in these does not drain but does somehow seep through and rust the outter lining surrounding the handle. The handle should be inverted.

This fridge/freezer has done me and my young family well for 4 years. Woke up Friday morning to find the freezer was not cold and icypoles/ice creams… Read more

had completely melted and fridge section was not cold either. Lucky had a very freezer in the shed so got that out and cleaned and most of the meats, etc placed in there. Moved majority of fridge items into 2 esky's and have had to purchase ice. Unfortunately contacting Westinghouse/Electrolux customer section only to be advised that they could not do anything and that I would need to get it repaired/assessed. Not professional and when you pay a large amount of money for a product that should last at least 10 years if well looked after and cleaned. Unfortunately been the end of the week after calling a dozen technicians earliest I could get technicians out was not until Monday or paying very expensive call out fees for the weekend. A couple of technicians after discussions advised that this particular fridge/model has had many issues and I would be paying close to 1000 minimum whether it was electrical, compressor, leak, etc with labour, call out and parts. they recommended it was best just to purchase a new fridge. Went and did that Friday afternoon but earliest I could get delivery for a new fridge in Adelaide was Monday.

After the majority of reviews I have seen, I would recommend that this product does not last for what should be a lifetime of 10 years, especially with cost of living. Will be looking at contacting Consumer Affairs about this.

Poorly built in China – Fridge is a nice size and plenty of space but the most disappointing issue I have with it is the horrible loud noise it makes randomly. If only I… Read more

looked at the specs knowing it was made in China, I would never have bought it. 2 years later we sold this fridge at a loss and bought a Samsung SRL447DMB, Best fridge we've ever bought. It's quiet, low power consumption and well lit inside.

Bought this fridge late in 2020, mainly for the icemaker and chilled water. Always had issues with the freezer sometimes thawing things out, you'd go… Read more

in there, and everything was soft. Started having some issues with the ice maker last year, the hopper had broken away from the mount, only a small piece of plastic holding it in place. Samsung sent out a new one. But then the ice tray wouldn't dump the ice, but the fridge kept trying to fill the ice tray, causing water to be pooled at the front of the fridge. Spoke with Samsung multiple times, did some trouble shooting with them, but now they have refused to send someone out to look at it. At the moment, cannot use the water dispensor, and had to pull out the ice cube trays. Just this week, the hopper broke again the same way, discovered a piece of plastic in my drink. Not sure that I will ever buy another Samsung product now, thought they were a quality brand

Seemed fine for 5 years then a gas leak caused the compressor to overheat and die. Now paying over $1k for repair (call out, parts labour) when new… Read more

the thing cost $2k. Sure the $500 compressor is free under warranty, but why the hell did it leak all the refrigerant gas?!?! It just sits there, in a protected spot. Nothing to blame but substandard materials or shoddy manufacturing.

I’ve never had a fridge do this before. Extremely dissatisfied with LG.

Purchased 15/01/23; 7 weeks after warranty expires, so does the "maintenance free LED light" in the freezer. Wife always wanted a Bosch fridge, to go… Read more

with the Bosch dishwasher, vacuum cleaner and other Bosch products. What a mistake! - Control & display panel leaks cold air when it is hot or humid - Ice maker trays jam up and will not release frozen ice - Vegetable crisper hard to remove (to clean) and even harder to re-insert. Would be easier if doors opened wider than they do. - Butter and cheese compartment door swings open even time the fridge is opened, and contents fall out. - Operating noises are exceedingly LOUD; far worse than all the other fridges we have owned. - Outside is hard to clean, white marks keep appearing on the steel exterior.

The fridge is over 12 months old and we have had issues from the first month of use! Clattering from the fridge has been so loud you can hear it… Read more

through the house. We have had 4 visits from different Samsung recommended technicians! We have had fans replaced, fans adjusted, a new compressor! The technicians recommend a new fridge as they all believe it is faulty! Calls to the service centre are a waste of time! We have had many! We just go around in circles. No result after 12 months. The cost of all the call outs from technicians and spare parts could have paid for a new fridge! Don’t buy Samsung!

Love this fridge! – Pretty spacious for family and love the knock knock feature to turn the light on for the mini door! It's stylish and has little things which come… Read more

handy.. like the wine rack, ice tray on the door, lock the temperature etc. It's also very quiet, which is a bonus! Only been using it for a month but happy so far!

Having owned Westinghouse appliances before I was excited to receive this fridge / freezer. However the recyclable door lining material is thin and… Read more

fragile. It's ripped / cracked once, and - after a long wait - Westinghouse replaced the door. Now it's happened again in the same way, and I'm awaiting another warranty repair.

Don't know what's happened to Westinghouse's quality of late but I won't make the mistake of buying another of their appliances.

TLDR - 4.5 stars - very good - That being said, we are currently only 4 months in to ownership and lots can change over time. We also have had no… Read more

modern fridge to compare it against.

Competition - If Mitsubishi had a Japanese made fridge with plumbed ice and water, we likely would have purchased that instead based on that brand's excellent reviews even though it likely would have been significantly more expensive.

Dimensions - installed, our fridge is 178cm high, and 91cm wide. (You will want additional air gaps of 4+ cm on each side and above)

Price - we paid $1,888 in the black friday sales (Nov 2024) for this fridge from Retravision which included basic delivery to Brisbane.

Review - Overall, we really like this fridge and wish we had purchased a plumbed fridge far sooner. I personally prefer this fridge's side-by-side (freezer on left, fridge on right) design, compared to the french door fridge. The fact that the side-by-side is roughly half the cost of the french door equivalent makes for a compelling argument as well! I also like the fact that this fridge has switched back to a supposedly more reliable traditional 'smart' inverter versus the linear compressor - though this likely comes with a higher energy consumption.

The fridge is very good, but has a few quirks which I will enumerate below:

1) The supplied water filter which connects inline between water supply tap and the fridge is completely external, and is roughly the size of a 400ml water bottle. It is recommended to replace it every 6 months. We were able to hide the filter above the fridge in a cabinet and drill access holes for the water lines, along with an access port that enables us to turn off the water supply in order to replace the filter. The fridge is big and the last thing you want to be doing is having to pull out the fridge from its cavity every 6 months - so good access to the filter and the ability to easily turn off the water supply is paramount.

2) Water/ice dispenser has no drip or catch tray, and particularly when dispensing ice, be prepared to have a cloth handy to wipe up spills. I suspect the area immediately around the dispenser will rust over time.

3) There is only very limited cold water on hand at any time - the fridge does not have a cold water reservoir, and the amount of 'cold'-ish water on hand would be equivalent to the small volume in its internal plumbing. With that being said, you should have plenty of ice available in potentially 3 different forms: crushed, cubed, and the large craft/cocktail ice balls.

4) The large craft/cocktail ice balls that form each day are deposited in to a plastic draw at the top of the freezer. Unlike most fridge/freezer draws that traditionally have tabs or a lip to prevent inadvertently ejecting the whole draw when softly pulling at it, no such mechanism exists for this ice draw. It thus requires a bit of extra care to ensure the draw and/or its contents are not dropped.

I hope this review helps others and will update it accordingly should any problems arise.

This was supplied by our Insurance after a power outage burnt out our previous one – It is a quite fridge and keeps food at the appropriate coldness and tells us if the door is kept open for to long while getting things out of it or… Read more

repacking and it is easy to keep clean both inside and outside and it retains its temperature even when we have a power outage like recently due to lightning strikes in area.

Contented – Thank you for the order of these replace filters. Most stores had run out of stock. The delivery was fast.

I love this fridge. Before purchasing, I spent an hour looking at every single fridge freezer in my local store, must have looked at 50 models from… Read more

every brand. This model stood out to me out of all of them. I liked the look, the layout, the size and the features. I thought the drawers and shelves were organised well. I liked it had an ice maker and water dispenser - specifically non-plumbed, as I had read getting your fridge plumbed to mains water can introduce a lot of risk of both flooding and breakdowns.

I’ve had the fridge over a year now and it’s just awesome.

One time the water/ice dispenser stopped working. You pressed your glass/cup to the paddle and nothing would happen. No whirring, no sound, no response at all. Like the electro-switch that detects when the paddle is pushed had broken. I’m a handy guy, so i turned off the fridge at the power point and removed the dispenser. I got to the little switch and tested its output with my multimeter, and bizarrely there was nothing wrong with it. Puzzled, i refitted the switch and paddle and turned the fridge back on at the power point. I pressed the paddle with my fingers and lo and behold it was working again. I have a feeling, seeing as this fridge has WiFi etc, that what had actually happened was the software glitched out in the fridge and like a computer or phone that is malfunctioning it needed to be rebooted / just turned off and on again.

It hasn’t happened since, if if happened again, Hopefully that fixes it once more.

Awesome fridge though!

Haier fridge - great product – It just works! The compressor is incredibly quiet, and the switch zone is interesting. The temperature controls are easy to use, and it is amazing… Read more

what 1 degree difference can do. The only downside is the size of the freezer compartment - only two (large) drawers, which means I am mainly using the switch zone as a second freezer (it has shelves that give far easier access).

Thanks Electrolux, no thanks Westinghouse – When my 12 year old side by side fridge freezer started leaking tar from the bottom seams, from an online search, I found that many others had the… Read more

same problem. I emailed Electrolux customer care on Thursday, and a repair guy came on Monday. He cleaned it up with "De-solv-it" and put some clear sealer on the seam. Hopefully that stops or lessens the problem. Poor design by Westinghouse, but good job by the Electrolux service people. Not often do you get such quick action. No charge to me. 5 stars for Electrolux service, 1 star for Westinghouse fridge.

Zero star customer service and quality – UPDATE: LG booked a technician to replace the seal very quick, few days after this post, without any charge. The technician did a good job and the… Read more

problem is now fixed. I hope the fridge will last long. Also hope LG will do better in quality control to build up customers' confidence.

Just two days after purchase, the fridge door has frost built up. My husband notices that it is caused by door seal deformed. He called LG customer service for repair and be told he needed to pay the call out fee if this is not a manufactory fault. This is a brand new fridge purchased from Goodguys two days ago - this has to be a manufactory fault but the staff offered no further assistance. The quality is bad and the customer service is unacceptable. Will not buy LG products anymore.

We bought this fridge two years ago, over that time its been fixed by Liebherr due to malfunction. The internal plastic parts of the fridge are… Read more

brittle and break with easy use. After contacting Liebherr they failed to replace the parts. Extremely dissappointed in the quality not worth the money

Bad Not working in large parts – The central door pillar heats up so it is painful to touch and so compartments in the Freezer and the fridge do not work at all, We lose frozen and… Read more

fridge goods regularly. The unit is not worth looking at and just after the 5 year warranty I am left frustrated and poorer,

Don't buy this fridge if you want to dispense chilled water!! What's the point of having a water dispenser on your fridge if it's warmer than the tap water. Just plain stupid Show details

Great until it wasn't! – I purchased this fridge a month and a half ago. Being a Samsung enthusiast, I was excited for our purchase. Funny enough the thing I love most about… Read more

this fridge is the one thing that has broken. I wish I did more research prior to purchasing this fridge as now it's apparent that this problem we are having is a common occurrence. The Ice dispenser is not dispensing ice and the ice flap that will usually open when dispensing the ice is opening and closing continually. After one night of it opening and closing it is now making this horrid screeching noise along with the noise the flap was originally making. I have called The Good Guys to put in a warranty claim and now awaiting a call from Samsung for someone to come and fix the problem. Quite frustrating as we now have to listen to this extremely annoying sound over the weekend, The Good Guys tell me I should hear from Samsung on Tuesday given it's Friday today. The other thing I'm stressed about is the fact this has happened so early on, how many more times is this going to happen!? I hope not ever but I don't like the odds of that given I have only had this fridge for 1.5 months! My last fridge lasted 16 years before it died on me, I was so excited to start fresh with this new fridge and have a nice long life with it! Now I'm just feeling stressed and anxious about my purchase, is this something I'm going to have to deal with for the life of the fridge!? At the moment I'm feeling really robbed as a customer and honestly, I wish I could just get a refund or an exchange as I have lost all hope in this product. I understand that a refund isn't really on the cards and the company have an obligation to fix it but at this stage all I'm feeling is buyers regret, it's not fair that a customer doesnt have the right to a refund straight off the bat on a product that has a known fault. Extremely disappointed, frustrated and annoyed to say the least.

Not very happy with this product – 2 days 'out of the box' water dispenser leaked profusely and had to be emptied. Service call ensued and 1 week later a service tech arrived. … Read more

Ordered new water dispenser and wondered why the call centre could not have done that. 2 weeks 'out of the box' receiving a "Er dH" error indicating that the freezer defroster was experiencing anywhere between blocked water exit to - total PC Board failure. That's quite a bit of latitude. Have had one tech support visit and defosted freezer and thought that might last 10 days until next visit to replace PCB and evaoprator unit. Not so . . . same error appeared lesst than 24 hrs later and the fridge and freezer are useless - and over the Xmas period. This has been an extremely disruptive experience - and I'm not that happy with the Electrolux customer "service" experience either. That's another story - and I'll raise that on another channel as requested (by Electrolux) which means that they are aware their customer service is not what it should be. Update: Service tech attended and evaporator unit and PCB replaced. 2 days on so far so good. Now 6 weeks on I still don't have a water dispenser. Lost in transit perhaps - or not ordered yet. Phoned customer (we don't) care and was told that tech who visited reordered water dispenser. I was standing next to him when he inquired as to its whereabouts and he sent message up the line to ask what the status of this order was. No reordering done while he was here - I can tell you. This post got the attention of someone in customer service - who halted the posting of this review - with the promise of contacting me to listen to my story. This far no contact - so I'm poking the bear again. FYI: Julie - I'd love to talk with you.