Having been a Fisher & Paykel customer for all my adult life, I once again turned to them when I recently needed to replace our old Fisher & Paykel refrigerator. We took delivery of our new fridge just two days ago. The first thing that struck me is the overall decline in the quality of Fisher & Paykel products. From their former reputation as "high quality" the new fridge carries some of the characteristics and feel of "cheapness". One example was the "missing" egg trays. The manual for the fridge talks about the need to keep eggs in the ...

Fridge keeps food cold and frozen OK. Feature wise nothing to complain about. No breakdowns so far. It is compact for a French door, for me that was a plus. Like most modern fridges, some shelving components feel like they are going to break in your hands at any moment. The freezer door movement feels 'cheap' and doesn't move smoothly. It may prove me wrong in time, and is possibly better than average therefore won't mark it down on this account. What I really didn't like was the weakness of the frame which again could be a symptom of the times...

We’ve had this for 8 months, and are still impressed with how long it keeps produce fresh, both in the crisper drawers and just in the fridge if we run out of space.
The door shelves and set up means there is a lot of room.
We were nervous about the freezer (we use a decent amount of freezer space), but the two level drawer set up means it’s fairly easy to organise, but maybe not perfect if you freeze lots of food and can’t keep track of it (the bottom level is a bit deep, so things can get buried under other things).
The water dispenser is great - love that it’s flush so saves space inside the fridge. The ice drawer in the freezer does take up some space, but we find it worth it.

Very happy with my new fridge
It cools and freezes just as it should. The water dispenser has a lock feature which is awesome when there's a toddler walking around. I've is always available and can be turned off in the colder months. Keeps vegetables fresh and crisp.
Well done Fisher & Paykel

We have had this fridge for about 18 months now
Initially we had issues where the water dispenser stopped working and was flowing really slowly (after a few months). F&P were helpful and had a couple of people come and look, eventually it was taken away and they gave us a loan fridge while it was fixed. It worked for a while, but we’ve found the water starts to run really slowly, and when we change the filter this seems to resolve. However the filters are supposed to last 6 months - ours only seem to last a few then the water dispenses at half ...

I brought this fridge in July from Harvey Norman for $1899. The water and ice dispenser worked for about a month. Over the next month and a half they both gradually lost water pressure, taking several minutes to fill a glass of water, and making tiny ice cubes.

I contacted customer service a number of times via email without response. Finally I had enough and decided to call, wait on hold just to organise a service. Sent out a service technician, who told me the filter was faulty and that the issue was now fixed.

Less than 2 weeks after ...

I have wanted a French door fridge since they first came out .... but if I am honest they are not as useful as the two door upright fridges ,its something that I didnt think of till I had one .The freezer is the same as a box fridge ,so you dont know whats in the bottom till you have to dig for it, the old fridge you could see everything in it from the side & it was at eye level.also the doors are not wide so you cant put a lot of big bottles in them.you get 4 lie down bottle holders with the fridge ,but that means you take up a full shelf with bottles ...but I still love it

If you are coming from a traditional 2 door fridge to one of these French Door fridge/freezers
Really consider the layout, in my opinion, its a step backwards for the sake of a cool "looking" fridge....

The pull out freezer is so painful to use
Its also smaller than most tradition fridges freezers
It means you pull the draw into you shins, then have to bend down to find things in basically one big bucket.... ewwwwwww

The fridge, Hmmmm 2 doors, so way less door shelf space
You are constantly having to open 2 doors, when you managed with 1 door for decades
Room for Milk and Bottles is very minimal, and they give you these cheap plastic moulds to lay bottles down......

Absolutely love the automatic ice maker, means never being without ice again. When you take some ice it refills the container. Also having free flowing chilled water from the slim line dispenser is very convenient and doesn’t take up any internal room. Overall nice size fridge for the 3 of us.

I have the new model (RF522ADUX5) which just came into the market and superseded the old model (RF522ADUSX5). Everything is good but it has an intermittent fault with the water dispenser either clogging or freezing up every month or so. Sometimes for days unless I play around with it (on /off, pull fridge in and out, take water pipe in and out) after a while it would work again. It has been to the workshop once already where they apparently found a blocked spigot and replaced that but I'm guessing they did not take it apart to check or insulate...

This is definately the best fridge i have ever purchased, well designed and thought out for every day use, everything just seems to have a place. The french door design makes is practical yet very stylish too.

Such a great fridge. Huge amount of space in both fridge and freezer. Ice cold water on tap and auto ice! Brilliant. Quiet, energy efficient and very sleek to look at.

Excellent fridge. Easy to hook up the ice and water. Great features with the bottle chiller and door alarm and runs very quietly. Large freezer space with 2 large draws.... Perfect size for a family of 4 with room to spare.....Recomended purchase for a smaller fridge space but with the french door feature.

Love my new Fisher and Paykel fridge. Everything I need for a small family and looks great. I have only had the fridge for a few months but have noticed the vegetables remain fresher for much longer than my last fridge. Very happy so far. My only observation is the water spout for filling up a glass of chilled water could be a little wider to allow faster refills.

I love this fridge. I have had it for two years. I was worried based on reviews I had read that it would be noisy but I can't hear it at all in my open planned living area. No issues with temperature. I haven't bothered to get the fridge plumbed in as planned but I love my fridge that much I actually forgot about it. I have less rotting food than the old fashioned style fridge, because it's all at eye level. Highly recommend,it's worth making the change.
You can easily store platters and overall my fridge feels more organised.