Rosyhf

I have the janome memory craft 8000 for 25 years now. I have used it like a work horse. I have never taken it in for service. I keep it clean and only oil the bobbin case or the thingy the bobbin sits in. The lighted screen has gone a bit dull but I can still see the stitches. I don't really do machine embroidery and use the blanket stitch on it or a couple others. It is one of the best machine I own. I do use my brother quilt club now for speed etc. (I have 2 of those) ...I have sold my old bernina and an old singer and getting ready to sell my featherweight. I want to be down to just 3 machines.

madamekelly

Me too! Also, no service visits! I have a high-end Brother Innovis NXQ650.

Lori S

My Viking 500 is now 25 years old... not a lot of computerized "stuff", but it still runs like a champ.

Mimiqwerty

I have a Pfaff Creative 1471 that's still going strong after 35 years

platinumbt

I have a Husqvarna Viking 990 Model from 1986 - runs just great! It was one of the first computerized machines available on the market. Amazing what it can do.

onaemtnest

I bought my Viking #1 plus in 1996 new, at the time it was the top-of-the-line machine for Viking. I've not a put a whole lot of hours on it, I've never had a problem. A unscrupulous Viking authorized repair store told me when I took it in to be cleaned, that the Mother board was about to go out and did I want to trade up....I couldn't afford at the time a new Mother board @ $500 plus labor. DH did a thorough cleaning and 7 years later it's still working flawlessly. (I found a new Viking dealer to deal with)

Last summer I purchased via eBay the Viking #1 which doesn't have the embroidery which I only used on my 1+ I think one time, I hated babysitting the machine and changing threads.

I took the eBay purchased machine #1 in to authorized Viking dealer/repair 2.5 hours away but his reputation is over the moon great! He deemed the eBay purchased machine pristine so I have two wonderful Vikings. The dealer/repair guy also confirmed what others have said on this thread, that the newer machines are not as well made as the older ones. He's repaired Vikings for 30 years, He went on to say there is a lot more plastic and a lot of the parts are Chinese made.

Maire

This was my first computerized machine, I bought it approx 1988, I gave it to my daughter when I moved on to machines with embroidery-still going strong,

Maire

PS, I also had a Bernina 200 that only lasted approx 5 years, and I have a Brother 2002D that is going strong at 14 years old.

Boston1954

My Brother SQ9000 will be five in July. Still works great.

farmquilter

Mine is about 10 years old and not a bit of problems with it, love the built in dual feed.