GE Water Filter Hack! Save Money!
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STOP buying their water filters! In this video we show how to get around GE making you buy their water filter. The only difference between the XWF and XWFE water filters is a chip on the back of the XWFE filter. The chip uses radio frequency identification (RFID) to communicate with newer GE refrigerators.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:23 The Chip
00:42 Why you need this hack
01:10 How to
02:13 Wrap Up
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Your video worked and i was able to buy 3 filters for half the price of one GE filter. Thank you!!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
Glad we could help and thank you for watching.
The only thing I’d add is that my first stick-on didn’t work, so I looked at where the label lines up and adjusted the height of it and it worked.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your experience. I know that will help others. Thank you for watching and have a great day!
You're a real MVP, thank you so much for this info!
Thank you so much! I didn’t know what to do!! Y’all are a lifesaver!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much! Thank you for watching and have a blessed day!
You can also use nail polish remover or acetone to gently melt the glue holding it on for an easy peel off.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
12 күн бұрын
Thank you for the suggestion and thank you for watching. Have a blessed day!
You're the best! Works like a charm! Thank You!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! We are glad it worked and thank you for watching!
I just did this today. It was easy and works just like you said. Thanks.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
4 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thank you so much for watching and have a great week!
great i was about to open my new filter and old one
Going to try this ! Not spending 60 on a filter! Dont buy GE Fridges people ...wish i done my research first! Hopefully this works!
Wow ! You are the Man Great clip Save money too Thanks for sharing
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
You are welcome and thank you for watching! Have a blessed 4th of July!
Wish I would have seen your video before I bought and replaced the GE filter. I won’t make the same mistake again!!! Thank you!!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
4 ай бұрын
You are welcome! Have a great weekend!
GE is scummy for doing this..
This worked great. THANK YOU! Saved the average Joe who thought GE was for Americans, but no they do this scummy practice of placing these things here to force us to buy these high cost filters. Again thank you my friend.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
You are welcome! Thank you for the great comment and for watching! Have a blessed day!
Excellent! Thank you. Stick it to the man!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
3 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do! Have a great day!
Awesome thank you
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
5 ай бұрын
You are very welcome
Gonna try this out
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
Great. Thanks for watching and have a blessed weekend!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
26 күн бұрын
You are welcome! Thank you for watching and have a blessed day!
Anyone try to get the RFID out of the free bypass plug and also use the water filter????
Can I send you flowers?
Does anyone know when you take the chip off and put it back on will it reset the filter status/light? Thanks
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
4 ай бұрын
It will not reset the filter light. As far as that goes it thanks it’s the same filter. That’s why it will not reset it.
What is the purpose of the RFID chip in these filters, just gives you the filter replacement light or stops water flow?
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
17 күн бұрын
The purpose is so you can only use their filter. If you put a filter in that doesn’t have it, it will stop the flow of water. Thank you for the question and for watching. Have a blessed weekend!
I just tried this but it didnt work and I kept getting the Err code whenever I pressed the water button. The work around for me was, I took the XWFE label and applied it to the new XWF filter and it worked. Fridge is only 6 months old so I'm wondering if the newer models will not read the chip since it's backwards when stuck to the back of the fridge.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
10 күн бұрын
Nothing would surprise me with how they try to make things difficult for us. Thank you for sharing and have a blessed weekend!
What is the best way to get off the label? I got off main part but there is still that back part of the circut that I wasn't able to. It does not help that it is foil thin and tears extremely easy when trying to get off.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
You just have to heat it up good and peel it off slowly. I had the same thing happen to me when I was making the video. Thank you for watching and have a blessed day!
Thanks! It sucks that GE does that.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
3 ай бұрын
Yes it does. Thank you for watching and have a great day!
Do you have the link of where i can get the amazon fileters?
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
2 ай бұрын
Amazon Basics Replacement GE XWF Refrigerator Water Filter: amzn.to/3Poje19
I purchased a GE fridge 6 months ago with this exact looking RFID filter replacement requirement. My Filter status is currently at 1% remaining. I successfully removed label and taped it to the back and put original filter back in and still working..My Question: After it reaches 0%, will it stop dispensing water? And if so what do you do next? Just swap out with a new generic filter? (I purchased some and already made sure they work with old RFID chip) ....or Do I remove the sticker and reapply it? How does the water begin dispensing again if it stopped dispensing? (There is no reset button on my recently purchased fridge, so do you think I may have to unplug fridge to reset it?)...just trying to anticipate the entire process of using cheaper filters. Thanks.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
3 ай бұрын
It sounds like you are good to go. You will put in a new generic filter and just write a date on there six months from the time you put it in and that’s how you will know to replace it. Unfortunately, there’s no way to reset anything because it’s reading that you have the same GE filter in there. That chip is only there so they know there’s a GE filter in there if that chip was not there and you put that generic filter in there it would not work because it will not read a GE chip. Thank you for watching and have a great week!
I switched the labels but the filter light is still red and reading 0% left
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching. Unfortunately, because we are using the same label it believes it’s the same filter so the light will always be red. You’ll just need to put a date on there which I do six months and replace it every six months. Thank you again and have a great day.
Couldn’t line it up or something. Didn’t work for me. Stuck ordering another filter but first I’m going to call GE and let them have it!
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
3 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear it did not work for you. Go ahead and buy another GE filter and then when that one’s done try it again. In my testing for this I actually went through three GE filters because one of them the chip did not come off clean and it left some residue on the filter so it did not work when I put it on the fridge. So that is always a possibility that that chip just did not come off clean. But again you can always try it next time before you buy another GE filter. Thank you and have a great day.
Ge is soooo scummy! And this guy is brilliant!!!
Is there another hack? This didn’t work. I think the chip broke when I removed it
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
10 күн бұрын
You can put an inline filter on the outside going to the fridge. Thank you for watching and have a blessed weekend!
THANK YOU!!! I just bought 3 filters from eBay that are all useless! GE is sooooo dumb!!!
Interesting. I just replaced my filter with a "genuine" GE XWFE and took off the label on the old "genuine" GE WXFE and there was no RFID chip like you had. I bought mine for less than 1/2 price online and, who knows, maybe they're good fakes but I'm not having a problem with them. (Now adding an edit -- I wonder if maybe my Café model doesn't really need a WXFE even though the lit says yes. I need to manually confirm on the control panel that the filter has been replaced. So maybe I lucked out that my cheap knock off is OK.)
I won’t be surprised when fridges require internet connections. These tags cost almost nothing. Too many companies are preventing people from repairing their own products or requiring customers to stay in the company’s economic ecosystem for parts.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
Ай бұрын
We just got a new printer at our job and we cannot use the generic cartridges for ink that we already have because of the chips that are in the new ink cartridges for that printer. You have to buy them from that company. Cannot stand this. 😡
No wonder consumer hate American brands.
@TheCoupleThatGrillsTogether
17 күн бұрын
They do make it hard on us. Thank you for watching and have a blessed weekend!