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[Jimbob]

Funnily enough, we had an Electrolux that kept going into furnace mode. I wasted ages moaning about the standard of catering before getting my thermocouple out and checking the temperature. Most things don't come out that well when the oven's at 350 degrees C and rising.

Considering ours has a cleaning cycle at 500 degrees c, this was well in excess of that!  Wish I had taken a photo, never seen an oven glow like this before!  consider ourselves lucky there was no fire to be honest.
Interestingly noone seems to sell Electrolux as an oven brand any more, plent of Aeg and Zanussi, but the 3rd brand in the group seems gone.

[Broomies Mate]

Don't get your heart set on a particular make or model.  D&G will provide you with vouchers for a particular retailer (Curry's in my experience), so you'll be restricted to whatever that particular retailer sells.

Be prepared to fight your corner (with regards to settlement figure).

[Kevin Wood]

Considering ours has a cleaning cycle at 500 degrees c, this was well in excess of that!  Wish I had taken a photo, never seen an oven glow like this before!  consider ourselves lucky there was no fire to be honest.
Interestingly noone seems to sell Electrolux as an oven brand any more, plent of Aeg and Zanussi, but the 3rd brand in the group seems gone.

That's very poor, and suggests that there isn't a thermal cutout as a second line of defence if the oven thermostat fails (which is all that had happened to ours). As you say, it could quite easily have caused a fire.

[Gaffers]

Considering ours has a cleaning cycle at 500 degrees c, this was well in excess of that!  Wish I had taken a photo, never seen an oven glow like this before!  consider ourselves lucky there was no fire to be honest.
Interestingly noone seems to sell Electrolux as an oven brand any more, plent of Aeg and Zanussi, but the 3rd brand in the group seems gone.

That's very poor, and suggests that there isn't a thermal cutout as a second line of defence if the oven thermostat fails (which is all that had happened to ours). As you say, it could quite easily have caused a fire.

Indeed.  I would have thought that basic safety would be a precrequisite for the CE kite mark?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Nah, CE mark does not require any sort of FMEA analysis.

[Gaffers]

 

Makes you wonder what you can trust these days....


Back on topic.  The new house came with a fitted kitchen and one of these:

http://www.benchmarxkitchens.co.uk/Neue-Single-Multifunction-Oven/p/324551

It works well, big enough for us and I cook a lot although I do miss having a double oven.  I can't find any price for it though but I doubt it will exceed your budget.

[TheBoy]

Lol, yup headlight warming device

Well, as ours is 20+ yrs old standalone with 3 halogen hobs, thus definitely something from the early 90s, I can't comment.

Its been reliable, only faults were new florry tube/starter as backlight flickered, and I had to do a spot of welding on the grill element a few years back.

Like most appliances that have been trusty, no hurry to change it as I suspect *any* replacement will be shite.

[ronnyd]

Bought an ex display Zanussi from John Lewis a few months ago to replace the dead Neff. SWMBO is chuffed with it and she,s the one who uses it so fine by me.

[Jimbob]

Oven finally written off, gotta get a settlement now....

[STEMO]

Oven finally written off, gotta get a settlement now....

Couldn't DBG use the side panels to fashion into door skins? 

[Jimbob]

Nice settlement - They choose the model most similar to what you had.

You can accept that, or choose something else from one of their retailers (Ao.com / hughes.co.uk) for the same / similar trade price.

New Miele oven ordered, hopefully be a damn site better than the Electrolux.