Kitchen ranges

Comment:

Mine is actually several years old and a different model, but other than cosmetics, I'm pretty sure it's the same. The control for one of the burners just quit working. Can't use that burner now. Our old stove was 25 years old and worked fine until it died. This started falling apart after just a few years. UNACCEPTABLE!!! Every time we use the oven we get some error message and can't use it again for up to 24 hours. Going to buy a new one this weekend, even though I feel like we haven't gotten out money out of this one. I'll be getting any brand BUT Whirlppol. STAY AWAY!!!!

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No, I would not recommend this to a friend.

Comment:

The electronic control board malfunctioned shortly after we bought it - the oven vents directly behind the control board, so the controls were always getting steamed up and shorting out. It once froze the controls during a self-clean cycle and I had to turn off the breaker to turn it off. Scary. The second repairman seems to have fixed it by manually changing the shape of the vent so it vents OUT and not behind the control board. Stupid design. The door is poorly designed too - the steam has gone between the glass plates and the oven door now looks very messy. I will not buy this brand again.

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I was leery of some reliability complaints about new Whirlpool electric ranges even though I have never had a problem with any I have owned in the past. A repairman came out for another appliance I had and informed me the digital electronics in the electric ranges were going out because the new design vents hot air out of the oven on the front of the oven just below the temperature control knobs on the left side. Sure enough he was right. They used to vent out the back. The front vent causes the electronic wiring in the front to get very hot and then cool down after every use which eventually causes the digital components to fail (the old solid state circuitry was more reliable). The best thing you can do to avoid problems is to operate any overhead fan you have when you use the oven or even the range. This will dissipate the heat to a great degree.

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Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.