The problem is in this global manufacturing climate and you don’t know when manufactures change where they build a unit or where the parts that go in the unit were built.
Many we think that are USA brands have components in them that are manufactured all over the globe.
In the last 20 years you don’t know what you are getting, old name brands have been bought up and the name being used even though there is no ties what so ever with the original manufacture.
To name a few, Whirlpool, Fraser Johnson, Frigidaire, Fedders and many more. It sure makes it hard to keep up with who is who.
Fedders which was a USA company and made good units 35 years ago is out of business but a Chinese company bought up the name and sell AC’s under that well known old brand name.
In 1988, Rheem became a wholly owned subsidiary of Paloma Industries of Nagoya, Japan, the world's largest producer of gas appliances
Rheem, Rudd, Weather King, and Heat Controller are all made by Rheem the lesser known brands often have less features and are only made in the builders line. Most of the time the higher ends of the line have additional features, such as High and Low level pressures witches, Start Kits. Thermostatic expansion valves, higher efficient coils, scroll compressors, etc.
Even if the builder’s models may share a cabinet and look the same from the outside the premium units may have features that add to the longevity of the unit.
I am mot sure but the last I knew Rheem was headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It manufactures a lot of the residential stuff in Fort Smith, but some components were manufactured in, Mexico, Brazil and Singapore.
The point I am trying to make is that it may be misleading to go by the reputation of a brand name based on the reliability of the units built 10 years ago,
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