[petra]

I'd be convinced that companies are seriously interested in offering good value combined with reliability or just repairability, when they'll start seriously marketing their products as such[1].

So far, only miele does that marketing, but sadly without the price.

[1]Gigabyte did/does that with motherboards, their ultra-durable line, when they tell you all kind of technical stuff(like "we use tantalum capacitors" which attack a common and cheap MB failure point) to convince you it's reliable.

[rsynnott]

Bosch kind of markets that way, though as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, they may not be as reliable or serviceable as they used to be.