"I bought the Beco FRFP1685X on price and capacity and I am over the moon with its looks and performance. I don't think you can get a better looking freezer at any price. It’s just a shame it's in an outbuilding where no-one can see it. It is replacing a chest freezer that was 20 years old and still working well but the lid seal was not working and no spare could be found so we have gone with an upright this time."
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.
"Looks good in my kitchen very modern, it holds so much food, I love the openings at the top part just a perfect addition to my kitchen."
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.
"Very good ?? shelves not quite wide enough but can make do. Other than that no problems "
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.
"This is just what I wanted, no defrost, large capacity, easy to use, quiet and reasonably priced, very happy with purchase."
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.
"We had to buy one of these to urgently replace a very poorly Liebherr upright freezer. This one looked good, had a similar food capacity and was about 1/3 the cost of a replacement Liebherr.
AO delivered it quickly and it was easy to unpack, but the problems started there.
The freezer has no interior light, so I needed to convert the door to hang on the right hand side so that the room light would shine inside. Converting the door was a nightmare; the bolt holes for the bottom hinge didn't line up and had been filled with insulating gunge. It took about two hours (yes, two hours!) to manage to clean enough gunk out and persuade the bolt to catch in the misaligned hole, with the freezer teetering at an angle against the wall the whole time. Then the handle just wouldn't attach at all; there was no thread in the captive "nut" inside the door. I tapped a new thread but then found that the nut was too deep inside the door for the bolt to reach, so I had to buy new bolts.
If I hadn't desperately needed the freezer to save all the frozen food from the old freezer then I would have sent it back at this point.
I'm sure we keep too much food in the freezer, which puts pressure on the interior plastics, but we hadn't broken anything in the Liebherr in 15 years of use.
In the Beko the upper interior plastic flaps both broke within a couple of months, and so are now useless. One of the glass shelves broke (which might have been my wife forcing too much food inside) and it seems impossible to replace with a Beko part.
The worst problem was when one of the bottom drawers broke (the front popped off) and this pushed the freezer door slightly open at the bottom, although it looked closed
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The small gap in the door meant the freezer thawed. It detected the temperature rise and illuminated a red lamp. A red lamp inside the freezer, which you can't see unless you open the door. An audible alarm would have alerted us to the problem and saved all the food. We lost everything, making the freezer suddenly look much less value for money.
I can't see this lasting long. I think it's a case of buy cheap, buy twice.
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13 of 13 people found this review helpful.
"Well worth the money. Holds plenty of food for a family."
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.