Smeg FAB28 Fridge - Retro Fridge -

Ever since we bought this fridge its been falling apart, the freezer door, the shelf brackets and the bottle shelves all sub standard and extremely expensive to replace. If SMEG have any decency they would at least set up a site to sell the parts cheaper, but I''m afraid until they sort the problems out you should avoid this product like the plague!!

Have gone through so many shelf runners have lost will to fight it any more. Do not touch with a bargepole as is not fit for purpose it is meant for.

Under 2 years old, Clear plastic cover on egg box broken (not bothered to fix) Ice box door catch has broken (£60 to replace myself) Compressor has failed (£350 VAT for engineer to replace) Looks lovely, but its cheaper than the cheapest supermarket special on the inside. It makes a mockery of Smeg''''s so called upmarket credentials. A textbook example of style over substance. If this thing retailed for £300 it might be a reasonable disposable confection. It is expensive to buy, but cheap, cheap cheap. Parts are extortionate. Don''''t buy it.

Delivered on Monday - freezers gone by Wednesday - fridge goes on Thursday wonder how long I''''ll wait for an engineer after reading the reviews think is there any point cost a fortune! I must have been a fool!!

Great looking but after only 17 months the compressor failed, word of waarning take no rubbish from sellers regarding 12 month warranty, I have just had the manufacturer pay for a new compressor and the retailer I bought it from pay for the installation, would not buy another one.

Cant beleive everybody feels the same as me about their crap smeg. We recieved one from my in laws as a wedding present. (not bad eh I thought at the time) £900 but they look great and I presumed would last a lifetime. Not so 2 and a half years on we have had to call out an engineer due to the fact the seal had broken, we also drew to his attention that the door had a random dint when it has not even been knocked. He said it could be something to do with the door sucking inwards and a fault in the product however there is no way to prove this and a new door is £300!!! two of the cheapo trays in the fridge have also broken and IU dread to think how much they will cost to replace. Smegs are rubbish, the company relies on middle men to do their dirty work, you are playing for the name while some fat cat sits there sunning himself on a beach somewhere spending your money. DONT BUY IT!

Bought this due to design of the SMEG fridges as I knew it would fit into my country kitchen decor. It definitely looks good and it is easy to clean both inside and out. Comes with under handy under shelf wine storage. Take off the nice plastic covering and you have a basic fridge inside. The freezer door broke after 4 months of use. The freezer compartment constantly needs to be defrosted. Lamp has failed twice in a year. Looks good on the outside - disappointed about the build quality. Lot of money for what is essentially a basic fridge.

18 months and I can throw the fridge away. Compressor is dead and cannot be fixed. According to engineer this happens a lot with this type of product. B******s!

I bought my black Smeg FAB28 on looks alone 4 years ago shallow I know and have had no real problems till now when the freezer box door has broken Yes its costing £60 plus to replace with a 2 week wait as servevast dont have it in stock but it is beautiful and has been the envy of all visitors to our kitchen I showed my husband this site and suddenly Well I never really wanted it in the first place you chose it etc etc At least now I have the benefit of this sites reviews and the first freezer door replacement will be the only one Forewarned and all that Actually come to think of it I thought our frozen lettuce was more to do with GM food Yyou live and learn

- we have had the engineer out several times, to repair door seal, replace switch and control unit - basically Smeg has put a funky curved door onto an out of date, NON frost free fridge and charged the earth for it....the door doesnt close properly, the light broke, the temp isnt constant, contents gets sopping wet if it touches the back.....do yourself a favour and get a decent american fridge freezer, perhaps not as attractive but might actually work!!! THis isnt just a one off, do a google search on reviews and see lots of others.....

I too have a FAB28 Fride, I thought it was just mine until I came across this site, whilst looking for a broken icebox. I agree, looks fantastic doesnt it from the outside, but totally falls apart in the inside. So far the ice box door - the hinge attached as broken off, the inside freezes us like an iceberg, the shelves have all snapped an broken and are being held together with tape. The water bottle shelf in the door has broken off - the bit where you put the wire holder in, it broken just there. What a bl...dy nightmare. Oh and it started to rust at the bottom after a year. I called Smeg and guess what - they didnt want to know! I would never buy one of these fridges again. I''ve just found that the icebox door costs over £50! Bl..dy rip off!

In short, it looks GREAT but you pay for that style with a very poor quality product. The shelves smash so easily, it leaks, the automatic defrost facility goes into overdrive, it s impractical...AVOID! It looks like a 50''s relic for a reason...the technology is also retro.

style over substance doesnt come close. This is the most expensive product I''ve ever bought and it packed up after 15 months. The customer service from Smeg was absolutely appalling and they are totally trading on the glossy magazine image of this product. Nasty people on the end of the phone who just don''t care that I might as well have thrown £700 on the fire.It is now going to the tip.

Yes! Yes! Yes! I''''''''m not alone! Not that it feels good.... Yes, I''''''''m one of those trawing the internet for some spare parts for my beautiful but totally shite SMEG fridge. i''''''''m now down to just one shelf inside. Everything else has broken or deteriorated. And I have to remember every time I open it to go gently - the inside door is so broken that milk and orange juice just go flying everywhere... it''''''''s all true - stylish, but total tat inside. Don''''''''t buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!

I came across this site while trying to find spare parts for the beast that resides in my kitchen, the Smeg Fab28 fridge. To date, the light won''t work despite numerous bulb changes, shelves crack and splinter, door shelves implode taking my milk and juice with it..usually all over my feet and kitchen floor, the freezer door has broken at both the hinge and handle ends so it''s producing enough ice to sink the Titanic and it dribbles like a bloke who''s had too much Tetley''s. While it looks great in my kitchen I have to say it is the worst and most expensive purchase of my life and I''m astonished that Smeg continue to get away with this nonsense.To add further insult, the spare parts are rediculously expensive and on a par with the national debt...and it freezes my lettuce ! This fridge is like herpes...best avoided.

Just happened to be surfing the web to find if I could buy a replacement ice box door ,when I stubbled on this website and fom all the comments it apears I am not alone. I have been struggling with a broken door for over a year (even my two young children have grasped the art of opening and closing it). Even with the enormous icebergs it creates. I will not be replacing it now I have evidence of this being a common fault. In addition I have already had several replacements for the bottle shelves etc ,fortunately these came under the guarantee but showed that parts were failing within the first few months of purchase. My dream fridge became a nightmare.

Bought my Fab 28 4 years ago, shamelessly seduced by its endless inclusion in every glossy interiors magazine I would have sold my grandmother to get one. I''m on to the 3rd ice box door thingie (at £75 a pop), it actually freezes my eggs and any other foodstuff stupid enough to find its way to the back of the fridge. Most of the plasitc interior shelving has cracked, chipped, or snapped and yesterday the contraption just up and died. It is as we speak blowing out hot air. I was just about to put the bugger on ebay and it must of cottoned on I was up to something giving it an extra special clean and defrosting its sorry excuse for a freezer... Long story short, this fridge is sooooooo rubbish, it looks good from afar but that''s about it. I can''t believe Smeg are getting away with churning these hunks of scrap out and charging us nearly a grand for the pleasure. If you really want one of these fridges I suggest you take up fly fishing, listen to a Paul Mckenna cd or get accupuncture until the urge has passed. If you still feel the need, you can have mine for two quid.

Thank you for all of your reviews on SMEG retro fridges.I too wanted it badly mainly because of its style.However,I just could not let myself to buy one after reading all these scary reviews!In the end,I bought a Gorenje RF6325OC (retro two door fridge/freezer).I hadn not seen it in real life before it was delivered,but what a lovely piece of appliance.Everything is in proportion.I can honestly say it is more stylish&spacious(inside)than Smeg and the price is much more affordable.The model I bought was £664 incl delivery.The most important thing to me is the doors shut tightly, eg the freezer door,once you shut it,you cannot force it open the very next second as the "auto suction" kicks it.That is how strong the design is.You can be sure the food would not get defrosted accidentally.This brand is not well known in UK and it was only by chance I learnt about it by reading the reviews(Kate Warwick) on this website.

We've had two fridges in one year, both write off's. Build quality crap.

I badly wanted one of these Smeg fridges because they look so lovely but after reading these reviews and seeing the scratched paintwork on the demo model in John Lewis, I decided against it. Instead I've got a Gorenje RB62850C, same retro looks but so far no problems. K

Everything you have ever read about this fridge is true – IT’S ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. Sold on style rather than function, the inside freezer door cracks and breaks after only a few months and the seals are so poor that water drips constantly from the freezer compartment onto the food in the fridge. The shelf inside the fridge door also broke after a couple of months. I contacted Smeg who told me that the freezer door will break with heavy use and they directed me to their website where replacements can be bought for an extortionate price - is it me? More Smug than Smeg. Take my advice DO NOT BUY THIS FRIDGE.

Although we've had this fridge for 4 years we've had constant problems with the freezer door. which keeps breaking, the replacement costs are extremely expensive almost the cost of a standard fridge, for a piece of plastic that lasts a few weeks. If you are thinking about buying this fridge my advice is don't bother!

I brought this fridge in 2004. 6 months on and the thermostat stopped working properly - one day the fridge would be cold the next it would be so warm that even the milk would go off. I had 3 thermostat changes and then tried to get a refund. The retailer failed to provide one, but Smeg agreed to replace the fridge with a new one. 6 months later the exact same problem reoccured. I requested a refund. I have yet to get a refund, but have since had 2 new thermostats, a new door and a new compressor. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

Whilst my Smeg Fab28 looks fab, it's only 18 months old and it's already on it's last legs. It's drips from the top constantly, dripping all over the food on the top shelf. The door no longer shuts as the seal is kaput. The tempurature is either way too hot or so cold everything is frozen. I bought purely for the looks and I've paid the price for being shallow with my buying criterea. Avoid at all cost, unless you've got money to burn and an hour a day spare to be turning the thermostat up and down. How we've avoiding food poisening this far I do not know.

my beautiful smeg fab28 stopped working after 14 months,called smeg/servelast the servicing company checks fridge says its unrepairable and will submit report contact smeg they say the fridge has been tampered with according to engineer smeg say for this reason they cannot repair or replace i am shocked as well as mortified £800 fridge now needs to be discarded

Thought we were buying a quality product that would last, unfortunately we were mistaken

Once you get over yourself for buying a stylish fridge, thus avoiding having to face up to the essential emptiness of your life (and mine, no-one gets out of here alive), have a really good look at the seals on the freezer door and on the fridge door itself. Are they up to much? Look a bit flimsy? A bit -what- UNSEALY? Exactly. If SMEG could sort this out, then Id happily buy their fridges forever, but they havent and now my perishables get a shower of water from the freezers inadequate seals. Even worse, the freezer door works on a sprung plastic hinge/handle contraption. Thats broken and I cant find a replacement (the original is a combination of plastic, superglue and household matches). Id bet my house that the break wouldnt have happened if the sodding SEALS were doing their job. As it is, the fridge is a thousand pound rebuke to me for deciding on looks over quality.

I LOVE THIS MACHINE. BUT I HAVE HAD 3 FREEZER DOORS ITS A NIGHTMARE. I HAVE NOW TAKEN TO OPENING MY FREEZER LIKE I WOULD HANDLE A NEW BORN BABY. GREAT FRIDGE SHAME ABOUT THE FREEZERD DOOR.