Appliance Age Finder for Chrome
Appliance Serial Number Lookup & Age Finder shows when a refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher or range was made and how old it is. Pick the brand, type the serial from the label and get the manufacture date. Everything runs inside your browser, and what you type is never sent anywhere.
What it does
One thing: it finds the manufacture date and age of a home appliance from its brand and serial number. The result reads like "Manufactured: March 2016 · about 10 years old". When a year code repeats, the window lists every possible year, newest first, and says how to tell them apart. When a serial doesn't fit the brand's pattern, it says so and shows where to look for the right number instead of guessing.
How to use it
- Install the extension and pin its icon to the toolbar.
- Open the window and choose the brand of your machine.
- Type the serial exactly as printed on the label. Spaces, dashes and lowercase letters are fine.
- Press Find age and read the result.
Or select a serial on any web page, right-click and choose Look up appliance age: the window opens with the text already filled in. If you select a whole label line such as "Model ABC-1234 Serial CB123456", the extension picks the serial out for you.
Brands
GE (with Hotpoint, Profile and Café), Whirlpool (with Maytag, KitchenAid, Amana and Jenn-Air), Frigidaire and Electrolux, LG, Samsung and Bosch. Each rule comes from the manufacturer's own documentation, or from two independent sources that agree; some older date codes are not covered yet. The sources and the limits for every brand are listed on the appliance age lookup page, which uses the same rules as the extension.
Privacy
The extension makes no network requests, sends no analytics and has no account or sign-in. It asks for two permissions only: the context menu for the right-click item, and storage to pass the selected text to the window and to remember the last brand. It has no access to the websites you visit. Details in the privacy policy.
Feedback
A problem, a wrong date, a brand you'd like added? Write to hello@sprocketrepair.com. For a wrong date, include the brand and the serial number as printed on the label, and the year you expected if you know it.
Who made it
The extension is made by Sprocket Appliance Repair, a team of appliance technicians in New York City. The window has a link to our website for repair visits in NYC; it opens in a normal tab only when you click it.
Need a repair in NYC?
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. $100 diagnostic, credited in full if you go ahead — 90-day warranty on parts and labor.