Should I Get My Repaired?

[barry1010]

I love my freestanding cooker with induction hob and truly self cleaning oven.  14 years old and yesterday the hob simply stopped whilst I was using it. Oven works fine.

I've done the switching off and on at the big red switch and the consumer unit and it is still dead.

Big problem is I cannot get a freestanding cooker with both induction hob and pyrolytic oven in 60cm apart from one which I don't like.

I have never had a built in cooker but as far as I know I would have to buy a housing unit and replace the entire stretch of worktop.

I'm getting quotes for repair, so far nobody will repair induction.  Still waiting for a couple to get back to me.

Any suggestions?

[Vagus]

Maybe you will need to compromise on some aspect of it Barry, if no one will repair the induction bit.

Is the new one you've seen very hideous, what is it about it you don't like?

[barry1010]

Thanks for replying, Vagus.  It was a fuss about nothing in the end.  

I don't like the cooker on sale because the oven is much bigger than I need and it's very silly money - of course it is, it's made by Smeg.

I ended up going to Curry's (to look, there isn't a huge choice of domestic appliance shops in the area) and came away disappointed that the only solution was the Smeg.

Found it a little cheaper online, put it in the basket, was just about to complete the transaction when I thought I'd better check the cooker again.  I had checked several times this morning.

Like magic, it worked.  Hurrah!   I have since found out that nobody will repair my cooker because of its age.

So I have no idea why it malfunctioned nor why it worked after more than 18 hours of being in a coma.  Fingers crossed it keeps going.

In an ideal world I would be able to buy a housing for the oven which has a built in worktop with the cut out for the hob.  It doesn't exist.  

 

[douglas9401]

I declare you lord of the rings!

[zebo]

Similar happened with the fridge/freezer, we came home form holiday to find that our daughter had had to bin a freezer full of food because the alarm was sounding.  After we had spent a while online looking at replacement I fiddled with the on/off button inside at the top that controls the light and it came back on!

[barry1010]

Yes, I've had that with my freezer, too.  Flipping appliances - they think they're the boss.

[youngmafbog]

If the oven works no amount of tinkering with the consumer unit will work.

As one works but not the other it may be possible they installed a fuse in the cooker.  Whip the back off and have a look.  Cookers are pretty striaghtforward.

TURN IT OFF AT THE consumer unit though and make sure no one goes near the consumer unit, cookers dont have a plug (or shouldnt have).

[barry1010]

Thanks, but it's fine now.  I don't know why the hob shut down for all those hours whilst the oven was fine.  It will forever be a mystery

[Vagus]

Relief, Barry 😉

[barry1010]

Fingers crossed it was a one off.   

[Maydup]

It could have been a loose connection. 
 

It may be worth looking around for a replacement while your old one is still going as after 14 years it's done you well.

did you check John Lewis?

https://www.johnlewis.com/aeg-cib6742acm-induction-cooker-stainless-steel/p5685555?s_ppc=2dx_mixed_technology_BAU&;tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwMqvBhCtARIsAIXsZpZnMUHzbyPAsadyyg1BqLYqtW6WO59SsROhcnHk_T3CE1k68aK-_UsaAvlDEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

[barry1010]

I checked everywhere.  Only Smeg make one model which has both an induction hob and a pyrolytic oven and is 60 cm wide.

 

 

[mjwman]

We have an 18month old Bosch induction hob. 2 weeks ago an E came up and no hobs. Switched off and on again at the consumer unit and all good again. Till next day when we got E again and a reboot sorted it again.

Called Bosch service who came a week later and there had been no further incidents. Of course no faults were found so.......