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I bet that £810 wasn’t a month. 😉
And yeah, traffic these days is a nightmare. Oh so often I think it’s a 20 minute journey and that’s more than optimistic once you get out there and school times… jeez.
K.
Do you know what temperature was being used as there’s a bulletin when used at higher temps it’s a problem that says this:
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[TD]Technical information applies to ovens with capillary thermostat.In case the oven interrupts the pizza or any other program when the temperature reaches 300°C, the protective thermostat must be replaced. You must order 882766.
New protective thermostat allows higher max. temperature +5°C.[/TD]
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Yeah, it’s been going on for quite some time now and they had a recall on the recall if I recall.
K.
I’m afraid that the one you need is long obsolete and I can’t see any alternatives.
Proline was a Comet owned brand that died when they did.
K.
Remind me in the morning to look at this please as it seems that the GIAS site is broken and has been all night.
K.
To me, that’s borderline criminal.
Think on it this way as an analogy….
If you bought a car or van and you got a ways down the road (see what I did there) with it and let’s say it’s six years old but you use it more than most so it’s got 150K miles on it and the crankshaft goes (random example) but you find you can’t buy that, say £300 part but you have to buy a £7K complete engine and the vehicle is worth circa £12K, how p1$$ed off are you gonna be?
Or if you’re not allowed to buy the part/s to repair it at all, what will you do then?
Now imagine that car/van is a Mercedes and you paid over the odds to buy that brand as it was “quality”, supposedly more durable than others and would last longer. That’d only p1$$ you off even more, might even tip you over the edge with outrage as you, in your head, paid more only to get ripped off worse.
But what can you do, at that point you’ve no comeback at all and the only choices you have are to scrap it or splurge on the stupidly expensive repair, if you even can repair it.
Thing is, you’ll never buy from that brand again, regardless of who it is and you’ll tell all and sundry at every opportunity you get not to buy from these crooks as, that is how most will view that kind of thing.
That’s before we even get into the “planned obsolescence” stuff, much of which I think are conspiracy theories for the most part. It’s more stupidity than design if you ask me.
Regardless, this is why the Right to Repair stuff is vitally important and it doesn’t just save owners from all that, it could save brands/makers from shooting themselves in the foot as often times I honestly don’t think they see how ludicrous this is or how damaging it is to them.
Right now, the problem we have in this industry is that they’re largely all doing the same silly things from the bottom to the top of the market so from a punter’s perspective, does it matter what you buy… may as well just buy cheap crap and junk it after a few years.
K.
It should be using slippage on the belt (detected even if not the case) to determine if it’s OOB or not so best guess from what you describe would be, there’s something up with the belt. Possibly faulty and slipping or giving the electronics the impression it’s doing that or, it’s not tight enough.
K.
It uses sensors buried in the insulation that are a right pain to swap and it does sound as if that might be the problem.
K.
The point to me is, these are wear-and-tear components that will inevitably fail and they have been rendered irreplaceable other than by a very expensive sealed unit if it’s even available.
Effectively forcing a replacement (irrespective of the age) of the machine as repair won’t be economically viable. Or, it’s unavailable. Either way, it’s not good news for owners/buyers.
And that’s a deliberate choice of the maker that should, in my opinion, be information that is freely available to consumers so they can make an informed decision on what to buy.
K.
