Miele tumble dryer- worth it??

you would have to compare like for like. All the Miele dryers i can see use heat pump technology so do not use energy hungry heaters. it means the clothes dont get very warm
a lot of people don’t like them as with the lack of heat it does not get rid of creases as easily

Dave

you only have to open the door to feel the quality. everything is stronger and better built. which means they should last a lot longer
but nothing is ever certain. 15 year old miele appliances are common. went to washer last week built 1997

Dave

I do not repair Miele BUT I have owned a Miele ordinary ( so this was well before heat pump dryers ), condenser tumble dryer that was second hand ( all my stuff is second or even third hand ) before it was sold on ( to a customer who if you sold her a steel girder it would invariably end up with a knot in it within, oh, in about a month! ) which was shot in 6 months ( to last that long she was obviously losing her touch ). Thought it was very superior in materials and construction though fairly elaborate and not that easy to work on. But what you now have to think along the lines of is: what may have better materials than your Beko ( which I quite like ) is often super complex. Being super complex in itself not necessarily a bad thing or rather does not always mean it`ll fail because of that ( you could say and it would also be true that simpler stuff does fail sometimes sooner that is because they are usually cheap machines hence cheap materials or / and careless design but being a simple design with very superior materials is something that is hard / impossible to find these days because 1) that is a good idea and 2) the world does not, but should, work that way – you`ll notice with the Green agenda no one ever talks about simple but really well made it is always some high tech piece of junk that performs very eco friendly but it soon jacks and is thrown away that is not what I thought how it should be e.g. My mom`s hand mince meat mincer was made in 1957 all metal and enamelled in mid green colour and was in regular use until a few years before her death compared with a modern C21st electrically operated 3 speed motor plastic mincer with a crap cast metal worm drive that will crack within 2 years, I mean who makes this crap and why is it imported and why does it have to be electric in the 1st place for christ sake it is supposed to be eco friendly you cannot get more eco friendly than using it manually other than not bothering having one in the 1st place ) but on the other hand should it bite the dust and how it bites the dust and given the expensive and repair spares` costs may well land yourself right in it as can be seen on Ebay “machines not working, spares or repairs ” some Miele, mostly washing machines I grant you, are not that old but still have obviously failed presumably very expensively in order to be there; whilst often they do not sell for much money they also can certainly cost big bucks to fix unless you “gets lucky” – don`t ever bank on that!
Whilst I do not myself have any desire to own brand new classy expensive stuff and so I always thought a bog standard Beko condenser t/dryer to be a reasonable and good machine where the common problem is the front 2 drum support wheels prematurely wearing out ( the donk donk noise as the drum turns ) and sometimes the heater`s thermistor can run to earth ( bit of a weird one that! ) but overall I think for the money they are better value than the Miele even though the Miele is much better made ( based on the one I had through my paws ). Just an almost final point: the majority of Hotpoint and Indesit tumble dryers are simple but the materials are not that good but you could say on reflection not that bad either depending upon what you are comparing them with. Where these things slip up above all is just poor basic design, it really is pretty terrible, they should know better and so should the consumers who treat the stuff really badly- and yet it has to be said God only knows which boozer they designed some of this stuff in! I have an Indesit condenser t/dryer!
I know how they work but I will be the first to admit that I do not have much experience on heat pump machines and frankly I just am not really interested in anycase as it seems a lot of complications for little real world gain and by the time it only becomes heat pump dryers I`ll be fully retired anyway but they seem like storing up a great deal of future trouble with the refigerant & probably the microproccessor board/s and so I shudder to guess how much that would cost to put right let alone on a Miele: bowel tremblingly expensive I would of thought. .