[southwindcg]

Only eight years for a dryer is definitely not pretty good in my mind. It's barely acceptable unless you have a huge family and are doing laundry daily. I had a low-end Capri (Sears house brand) that was 21 years old and still going strong when I moved away. It was serviced once, by me, to replace a fuse. If I'd paid twice as much and gotten only eight years out of one, I'd be furious.

[EvanAnderson]

Yeah-- I was thinking that 8 years isn't even broken-in. My old Sears dryer was 27 when I had to replace a pulley and a thermal fuse. It ran just like it was new after that. I left it with that house but, hopefully, it's still running today.

[userbinator]

Sears (Kenmore) appliances from that era are manufactured by Whirlpool in the US.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

The motor died on mine and they "didn't make it any more".

I tried to find something close and make custom gearing but it ended up being cheaper to get a new dryer.