Unluckiest PS3 Owner?

[Reasonable]

Tallgeese101 said:
Did you get new PS3s as a replacement or just the old one repaired? Repairing electronics is almost always a patching up job and the real problem will occur again.

Well that's the thing.  Sony gives you a replacement but it's not a new console.  Now, one school of thought is you're getting a refurbished PS3 that's been really carefully checked so should be as good as new, and sometimes that's probably the case, another school of thought is you're getting a refurbished PS3 with some spanking new parts but some potentially worn parts.

I'm guessing that I've been a little unlucky and an on treadmill consisting of the latter.