GENUINE Frigidaire 134792700 Heater

My Electrolux dryer was displaying the E64 error code. Crossed my fingers that the main heating element was the cause and nothing more. Watched video before installing and I was a bit intimidated with having to breakdown practically the entire unit to get to the heating element but it was actually a very easy process. I spent just over an hour to complete repair, by myself (51 years young female) including vacuuming and wiping down the inside. Dryer is back up and running perfectly.

Our dryer was shutting off way to early all of the sudden, and throwing codes so my husband did research to find this is what went out. He called a parts store about an hour away to buy a replacement and they refused to sell him the part on the basis that it might not actually be the heating element that failed, but a part on the heating element and sold as a unit with the heating element, meaning we’d still have to buy the heating element to fix the problem anyway. Thankfully, he found this one on Amazon. Not only was it a little less expensive, but it fixed the issue perfectly. My husband really enjoyed taking apart our dryer and finding out how simple the machine really is.

Had E 64 -- One of the 3 heating elements was bad after 11 years.After reading all the reviews, this part had only 30% 1 star reviews saying it failed after a short time. Less expensive parts from other sellers averaged 50% 1 start reviews, also reporting failure after a short time. I needed the dry fixed quick and so I spent extra for a "Genuine" part and hoped I would get a good one.Replaced with this and 2 minutes later had E 63 -- heating element shorted with chassis. I took apart the dryer and tested with my voltmeter and confirmed that two of the three coils on the new Heater were shorted with the chassis.I paid twice as much for this "Genuine" part. What a rip off. Fortunately I was able to bend the heater coil enough to keep it from shorting with the frame and get the dryer going. Six loads so far without further problems. Disassembling the dryer twice and having to fix the part was not appreciated.UPDATE July 2022 -- After bending the wires to get it to work, the new part lasted for 2 1/2 years and then failed with E-64.

I am a penny pincher, and my Frigidaire dryer started giving me error messages about 2 years ago. I looked up some videos on youtube and decided to service it myself with a cheap aftermarket heating element. It only lasted about 6 months, so I replaced it with another cheap one (different brand, and same thing, lasted about 6-8 months, then same happened a third time, but the third one only lasted about 4 months. I was getting so sick of doing these repairs because it's a real hassle. I was about to give up and buy a whole new stacked washer/dryer set, but the drastic increase in prices for laundry appliances since I bought my set 10 years ago threw me into sticker shock. I decided to give it one more go with the genuine OEM part. Well, I'm coming up on a year now, and this OEM part is hanging in there. Knock on wood. Has outlived the cheap generic ones, and I hope it continues to do so. By the way, we have been using the dryer on "low" heat setting ever since the first heating element I replaced, so we are not putting a ton of wear and tear on them. I feel like we're kind of babying the things. Anyway, I recommend getting this OEM part because it seems to be made to last a lot longer than the ones that are in the $20-$40 range.

Update:After the original post I just had to replace the heating element that my review was written about. This most recent one lasted from December 2017 through September 2019. I'm very satisfied as our laundry usage has not changed (12 to 20 loads a week). I ordered the new one on Friday, it arrived on Sunday and I installed it on Monday. Looking forward to it lasting another year and a half.ORIGINAL POST:I bought this unit (134792700) for my Frigidaire Affinity Dryer back in Oct 2016. It lasted until Dec 2017. We run 12 to 20 loads of laundry a week. 2 adults and 4 kids in our home. Overall I am pleased with the units performance.The installation was straight forward and took about an hour with a screw driver and a pair of channel lock pliers. BTW there are a lot of screws to remove so you may want to consider using a cordless drill or screw driver if you're proficient with such tools. Don't use these if you're not. I found some useful videos on YouTube that helped with the installation.Sometime over last summer I found a cheaper priced unit on a competitors auction site. It was 1/3 the price I paid here for this unit. Under $30. So I bought it fo the "next" time the unit wore out.Fast forward to the week before Christmas. Error code E64...again. The unit wore out. No fear here. I slapped in the spare under $30 unit and saved Christmas Vacation. Got all our laundry done and packed right on time before we left.Fast forward to January. We get home from our trip, unpack and start laundry. We had ran less than 15 loads through the dryer total before and after our trip and up comes the code again.Upon removing the unit I found that the coils in the cheap unit had stretched and were shorting out on each other (see the pictures. You'll see the coils all bundled and inter twined). The unit I replace after 14 months looked much better as the coils were still acceptably aligned. Its problem was one of the coils had worn out and broke (it'll be the picture of the coils a little squirrelly, but still aligned and not touching).Now I am buying the same unit I purchased back in 2016 and will not buy cheaper inferiority items.

This thing works well. It has ended the error codes on my dryer and seems to dry well. Have had it installed for two months so far running at least 6 times per week. Hope it keeps working...I would buy it again if needed.

First one of these I ordered from here only lasted about 5 months and now getting another one on the way. Hope this one last a little longer

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