Westinghouse 500L Bottom Mount BJ503T (Stainless Steel)

20 years and still going strong – Was surprised to see how low the rating was for this fridge and the issue people are reporting, hence wanted to write this review. From our experience it has been fantastic, 20 years & 7 moves and still going strong. Works exactly as it should, love the fridge layout and the freezer drawers, 500 litres is a little small for 4 adults, which is the only reason why I am looking around for another fridge. Show details

Best fridge – Have had it for 15 years still going strong its fantastic always keeps the food at the correct temp i would buy the same one nextime but it just keeps going and going. It was the best thing I have bought in a long time. And it looks good .  Show details

Great Fridge – Had our fridge now 15 years, bit noisy when running, never had a fault. third W'house we have had. No complaints. Does on occasions cool things a bit too much (freeze) but seldom. Nice unit...Probably a bit big now the kids have left home.Haven't even had to replace a globe. Good freezer.  Show details

fridge is freezing everything...again!! – Looks good and has been great but just cant stop it freezing everything in the fridge... same thing happened to the last westinghouse fridge i had.... fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Not a third time though.

Poor quality - I expected better from Westinghouse – Bought the Westinghouse fridge a few years ago because my family has always bought Westinghouse and in the past have been great fridges. Sadly this one has let me down. After a couple of years of use the doors have dropped leaving a gap around the top of the seal on the opening side. I wasn't to upset about this till I found out the lower cam… Read more

(which is what one of the parts are called) is no longer available for the left hand hinged models. Very disappointing from a company like Westinghouse. Also, the parts required to fix the door dropping problem do not come as a kit. You have to buy each part separate. I paid a small fortune for this fridge and there is only 2 of us in the house so its not like the doors are opened 50 times a day. Poor design.. very disappointed.

Never Again – A product so sub-standard you wonder if any quality testing was ever done. Nothing was good about this fridge. Never another Westinghouse product again. Freezer will not freeze, cooler will freeze your food. If it worked too noisy. Doors wont shut, Thermostat control so loose and in the wrong spot. over all it is an awful waste of money The looks… Read more

Freezer will not freeze. Cooler will freeze sometimes. Frequent Breakdown. Doors wont shut Too noisy if it ever worked Absolute rubbish

The fridge with a million miles to its name – This fridge belongs to the other half - however I take care of it and everything inside it... The fridge was pretty neglected when I got my hands on it - firstly giving it a good clean and vacume of dust out the back. The rubbers for the fridge are shot (due to girls nails cutting into the rubber than using the handles eg: child), we tried… Read more

getting them replaced with OEM rubbers but the Westinghouse shop stuffed us around with wrong parts so the split rubbers remain but fixed a little. The plastics are brittle and you need to practice a lot of caution when you wash the fridge as things will snap and it'll cost you an arm and a leg to replace!

I find that the fridge works alright, but as some state there are cold and some extremely cold spots in the fridge that affect some foods terribly. The fresh produce bins at the bottom for greens do a good job at quickly destroying lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, potato's etc - they have half the shelf life than my mothers fridge that is 10 years older than this fridge. I turned up the thermostat and then noticed that things would go off at the upper levels of the fridge, so you cant win at all!

The freezer itself is what you would call Cryogenic Storage - it is set up right and I find that chicken and beef suffer from freezer burn quiet quickly, regardless of how you pack or store it they get those white dot's... I also store frozen fish for fishing and find that Mullet - the most hardy bait suffers from terrible freezer burn even when they're stored in multiple bags and paper.

All in all, the fridge had been moved from house to house possibly more times than I care to remember and had more mileage points than a frequent flyer the fridge continues to keep chilling; its never going to be perfect nor is it going to impress but it keeps on going on! Keeps milk chilled. Destroys fresh produce and gives terrible freezer burn to meats stored in the freezer... Who needs expiration dates when you have this fridge.

Terrible – dud. a huge dissapointment. I was hoping this would last me 10 years or more. 2.5 years and it's landfill. loved the look and design. I paid it off in about 4 months- very proud about that. Worked well until it suddenly stopped working after 1.5 yrs. I had to replace the entire motor for $165AU! The butter lids at the top of the door broke almost… Read more

immediately! very poor design there. The door looked great if I used a stainless steel spray on it but was still hard to keep clean. it scratched easily. Now after 2 years it is freezing my food. The new motor isnt even 6 months old! We will have to replace this frige. I dont want to replace any more motors. DONT BUY WESTINGHOUSE!

The fridge freezes – The design of the fridge is good, there is alot of room in it, but that doesn't help the fact that it destroys all my vegetables and a few other things that cant come back from being partially frozen. i cannot wait to buy a new fridge or get this one fixed. its driving me up the wall... Roomy, like the upside down idea The fridge freezes, the freezer doesn't work the best

Terrible – Biggest waste of money in my life. This fridge did not work adequately from day one, do not buy anything from Westinghouse, this is worse then rubbish. * plastic bottle keeper broke immediately when i tried to install it. * makes ludicrous amount of noise * Just outside of 2 year warranty period, fridge and freezer stopped working, quote was $400 to fix, something to do with casing

Terrible – An absolute dud of a fridge... My second Westinghouse that has been a poor product. The people serving Westinghouse in our area said that most complaints were about Westinghouse and most newer models were replaced within 5 years. Looked great when we bought it. It is still running.(3 y.o) The fridge section freezers everything. There is a 'chill… Read more

zone'- which is suppose to be where you can put things to keep them especially cold. I think the 'Chill zone' was a design fault and someone decided to call it a feature rather than a fault. All the fruit and veges always freeze. The stainless steel surface began to rust within a year, the plastic mouldings around the bottom broke within 6 months, the seals split within a year.

Terrible – Very poor product by Westinghouse. Even tech said he would not buy one.It had to be repaired 8 times during warranty period. They replaced everything trying to fix it. Finally a tech worked out it has faulty casing causing leaks. Wasted so much food in the thing. It is now 3 years old and I am selling to a dealer for parts. Stay away from… Read more

Westinghouse - poor service and very average product. Crisper draw is quite brittle and broke straight away. It really does not have any except the blue light that comes on inside. It had to be repaired 8 times during warranty period. They replaced everything trying to fix it. Finally a tech worked out it has faulty casing causing leaks. Wasted so much food in the thing. It is now 3 years old and I am selling to a dealer for parts. Stay away from Westinghouse - poor service and very average product. Crisper draw is quite brittle and broke straight away.

Good – Fantastic layout, an ice maker would have made it a 5. The thermostat may have an issue (or relay) but as stated above, we have purchased second-hand Don't have to bend over to use the most commonly accessed part - the fridge has problems (cools to only 16C instead of 3-5C) on extremely hot days, but to be fair we purchased second-hand No ice maker