A friend was redoing small kitchen; installed a GE (I think.) with schmancy digital clock in fascia. Clock face seems way-too Hot to this experienced electronic type. She called them.

They said - there's a small fan which keeps the electronics cool. Trouble is, we hear no fan (ovens don't make a lot of masking noise). Nor is one shown on the crude wiring diagram. To prove it, we'd have to likely pull the sucker out = disconnect gas yada yada.

Oh.. remember your washer which ran >25 years? Well this POS is warranteed for ONE year - and it just expired. Guess where the extra profits for cheap labor AND shoddy product, go. Guess who pays for early retirement of PLASTIC fascia used in an OVEN and too hot to touch. At the store, you can't tell this via a cold demo model; so much for caveat emptor - Hey! appliances are now just like Windoze: preloaded with plastic, and shorter and shorter lifetime.

(I just retired my Record-A-Call ans. machine after a 24/7 18 year run; fixed a switch on it ~ 5 years ago.) Replacement POS... never mind. The trend was disgusting some time ago.. nobody blinks.


Ashton